The new Head of General Discipline has been announced and is a shared role between Katy Cuddington and Laura Piedallu-Wilson. Both are well respected coaches from Notts, Katy coaching in General and Laura coaches D2 in Women's Artistic.
The new position will begin from Monday 16th April and Notts Academy would like to wish them every success in this new role. As a shared post they will be able to continue coaching.

The Academy would like to thank Caroline Muldoon for all her hard work and commitment to Notts Recreational as she hands over the reins.

Andy Smith produced another great floor routine to finish 4th in the World Cup event in Doha today, scoring 14.575.  Andy will have another World Cup competition at the end of April in Croatia and then should be competing in the European Championships in Montpellier, France in May.

Andy Smith has qualifed for his second World Cup floor final in 2 weeks!  After finishing 4th in the floor final at the Turnier der  Meister in Cottbus he has now qualified in second place for the final in Doha, ahead of Zou Kai, the Olympic floor champion!  The final is today - good luck!

Andy Smith, competing for Ireland, qualified for the Floor final at the World Cup event at the Turnier der Meister in Cottbuss and competed brllliantly in the final to score 14.975, just 0.025 off the bronze medal!  Philipp Boy of Germany was in 1st with 15.2, Gonzalez 2nd on 15.15, Marcovic 3rd on 15.0.  GB's Max Whitlock was 5t with Sam Oldham 8th.  Report on the Cottbus event is at http://www.turnier-der-meister.de/news/home.php?ID=1820#1820.  Andy will be competing in the next World Cup even in Doha, Qatar this coming week - good luck!

Well done to all the boys who competed at the East Midlands setwork competition at Leicester on  Saturday 24 March.  All the Notts boys did very well with a number of medals. The under 8s took the top 4 places at Level 0 with Jack Hobrough 1st, Joe Ward 2nd, Finlay Hutchinson 3rd and Luke Harrington 4th.  At level 1 Dominic Rodgers got silver and qualifed for the East Midlands team for the NDP finals along with William Parmenter.  Henry Richards got silver at level 2 and he and Alfie Woodward qualifed for the East Midlands team.  Frazer Deabill took silver at level 3 and Daniel Bailey took gold at level 4 with Calum Hutchison in silver, Flynn Caines got gold at level 5 and at level 6 Andrew Plant got silver and Robin Woodward bronze - all these are selected for the East Midlands teams as well.  In the regional performance grades competition at level 1 Josh Newstead won gold, Joel Milner silver and Indi Watson bronze, at level 2 Peter Keynes won gold, Conor McGrath silver and Jacob Clark bronze and at level 3 Sam Plant won gold and Matthew Boardman silver.  In the out of age competition Cameron Chow took silver and Emile John-Baptiste bronze.  Results are in the MA results section of the website.