Monthly Archives: June 2016

Each season Gymnastics PEI celebrates its finest gymnasts and most dedicated coaches, judges, and volunteers by hosting the ADL/Sport PEI Achievement Awards.

The 2015-2016 season’s awards were held on June 13th at Centre 150in Summerside.

This season’s winners were:

Scott Chandler Senior Male Athlete of the Year: Matt Gallant
Senior Female Athlete of the Year: Karisa Quinn
Matthieu D’Amour Junior Male Athlete of the Year: Alex Mann
Junior Female Athlete of the Year: Sophie Mayne
Brett Martin Provincial Stream Male Athlete of the Year: Jago Sabine
Provincial Stream Female Athlete of the Year: Annika Trivers
Team of the Year: Open 7 Girls (Tori Hogan, Emma Germain, Alexa McClure & Dara MacInnis; coached by Shelley Ferguson)
Coach of the Year: Shelley Ferguson
Judge of the Year: Janet Duval
Administrator of the Year: Ellen McAssey

Club Coach: Courtney Anderson (Island Gymnastics Academy), Meagan Gallant (St. Louis Gymnos) & Allysa Mugridge (Summerside Saultos)
Club Volunteer: Claire Caseley-Smith(Summerside Saultos)

Matt Gallant won a gold medal at the 2016 Canadian Gymnastics Championships this weekend finishing 1st in the event final for Pommel Horse in the National Open division. Matt’s score was 13.1.

Matt bested his silver medal performance at last year’s National event in the same event.

Congratulations Matt!

Alex Mann also had a successful meet finishing 7th in the all-around competition out of 54 competitors. This included a 7th place finish on parallel bars and a 9th place finish on pommels.

Congratulations Alex!

Both Alex & Matt train at the Island Gymnastics Academy.