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Team Membership is by invitation only. We offer team for Girls Level 2 and up, and for Boys Level 4 and up.
Training hours vary from 4 to 10 hours per week.
Monthly fees vary depending on hours of practice and level
Contact Christina Zhou to get detailed information: (832) 876-9888, or gymtex@gmail.com
What can gymnastics do to our brains?
Scientists' research proved gymnastics exercises our IQ organ, the brain!
GYMTEX has the proof. Michael, one of team gymnasts, has received:
- USAG's All-American Academic Award
- PSAT score (229 out of 240), the 1% highest-scoring students in the Nation.
- Two perfect scores of 800 on SAT Subject Test in Math II and Chemistry.
Gymnastics is key to his success!
2009 Girls Team Winning South State Champion!
Sugar Land Gymnasts Shoot to the Top
Small Gym, Big Successr
By Dina G. Gustin
Five girls from Gymtex in Sugar Land bonded together to emerge as “Best Small Gym”
at Texas South State Competition in San Antonio, Texas. Each of the girls, ages 7
to 12, represent the official USA Gymnastics Association to meet the qualifications
at Level 4 in beam, floor, bars and vault. The girls competed individually in all
four events based on age group at the November state meet. The team exceeded
expectations as it was the first time the individuals of this new Gymtex team had
ever competed. The All-Around scores of each gymnast ranked in the top 6 of their
own age groups among the 300 girls qualified for the meet. Parents believe the
personalized attention that the girls receive at the small Sugar Land gym is a big
part of their success.
The Gymtex team stepped up their game under the leadership of owner, Christina Zhou,
seriously at the beginning of summer. Zhou, herself a decorated sports master from
China, brought in two Elite gymnasts for further instruction who, by good fortune,
were on summer break from their college teams. The Elite gymnasts were none other
than Catherine and Christine Nguyen from Sugar Land who are former teammates of
Olympian, Nastia Liukin. The Nguyen sisters gave the budding gymnasts great confidence
to reach their goals (and even sent a text to Nastia one day during practice)!
Exceeding Expectations
Although each teammate exceeded expectations, the short road to sweet success did have
its share of misfortune. During the four competitions leading up to Texas South State,
each one of the gymnasts played a significant role. During the first competition in
west Houston, one of the most confident gymnasts, was overwhelmed and stumbled, then
fell from the raised beam 6 times. Coach Christina supported her by not allowing her to
give up, finish her routine and emerge a winner. Delaney, current state champion in her
division, learned that hard work pays off by regrouping to earn gold medals on the beam,
vault and All-Around at State only two months later. At the state qualifier, a team
member’s scores helped catapult Gymtex along the way, but she was unable to compete in
San Antonio due to fractions of a point. Although the team’s heart sank for Laura-Marie,
she displayed poise and sportsmanship. This important quality was a support for the team
in ways that only a natural leader can exude. The 7-year-old, tiniest gymnast was
frustrated the week before state competition, but turned her attitude around to get the
“eye-of-the-tiger” on the run to vault. Daisy captured a gold medal with an awesome 9.8
on the vault to become the highest score in the entire South State Competition which
includes over 1,100 scores! She also gained two silver medals in the state floor exercise
and All-Around. Crystal focused her precise, technical skills to gain a silver medal in
floor. And Cameron, whose calm demeanor adds consistency to the team, scored high on bars
and went home with a silver medal in vault. The top talent at Gymtex balances itself with
strong character and diversity.
What’s on the agenda for 2010? Level 5 girl competitions
are in order and a new boy’s competition team who won team first or 2nd places in the competitions!
2006 Boys Team News
GYMTEX
Boys Won 2005 States Championship on March 20!
March
20, 2005, GYMTEX Level 6 boys have participated 2005 Level 6
Texas State Championship at Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The meet
results are astonishing!
Michael McCanna, 15, has won State
Champion on all 6 boy's events- H-bar, Floor, P-Bars, P-Horse,
Rings and Vault in 14 & up Age Group.
Michael is also
the 2005 State Champion on All Around with score of
51.5.
Michael has earned two 2005 Texas All Around Champion
watches, one for himself and one for his Coach Christina.
Michael
McCanna from GYMTEX is the State All Around Champion and all 6
events' Champion!
Omar Amin, 14, has won 2nd on
H-Bar, 3rd on Vault, 12th on P-Bars and 13th place on All Around
in 12-13 Age Groups-the age was determined on the day of Sept.
1, 2004.
It is awesome for Omar won 4 medals from State; one
silver and three bronze at the large and strong 12-13 Age Group.
Omar has gain high scores of 9.4 on H-Bar and 9.6 on Vault. A
number of well known coaches were so impressed to see Omar’s
Vault which was flying high and far. Omar has qualified to go to
Regional Championship on Sunday 10th of April, with his All
Around score of 50.85 that is 4.85 passed the qualifying score
of 46!
Omar's
amazing Vault!
Omar
Amin: Success at the 2005 Regional Meet
On Sunday, April 10th, at
the Regional meet in Dallas, Omar Amin, GYMTEX gymnast, competed
for class 6, 12-13 years age group. He achieved impressive
results despite the fact that he injured himself at the very
first part of first event- P-bars. His figure was swollen quite
bad immediately, but he decided to take the grueling challenge
to continue. He has to sand his grip whole much bigger for his
swollen figure to go though. He held his pain through all
the 6 events, especially on P-Bar, H-Bars and Rings till the
end, which earned him much respect and admiration form the
coaches, other gymnasts as well as from the audience!
Omar’s
excellent strive won his 4th on H-Bar and 7th on
Vault with 9.5 only 0.05 difference from the first place, 12th
on p-horse and 13th on All Around with 51.5 out of 46 best
competitors from 6 States. Coach Christina, as Omar’s
coach for the past four years, said: Omar’s performance
there was his best yet. Texas State Chairman, Kevin Muenz was
very impressed by Omar’s powerful flight on Vault.
A tough competition and very
good learning experience! Omar has showed his determined,
toughness as a well-rounded gymnast. <FONT>
Omar
won All Around 13th place out of 45 gymnastics who were from 6
states at 2005 Regional Championship
It
was a great pleasure to watch Omar grow from a child growing
into an awesome young man!
GYMTEX
Level 4 & 5 Boys Winning 3 Gold Medals On 2005 South State
Championship!
On April 16 that weekend, GYMTEX young
gymnasts have starved their best on 2005 S. State Championship.
Here are the impressive results! They won total 8 medals: 3
Gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals.
Adam Bergman, 8, won a gold
medal on Vault with 9.65 out of 42 gymnasts in Level 4.
Eric Ho won 2 gold medals- High
Bar with 9.7, and P-Horse with 9.15;
2 silver medals- FX with 9 and All
Around 55.00;
3 bronze medals-on P-Bars, Vault
and Rings.
Another word, Eric won medals
in all boys 6 event plus All Around. Total 7 medals
out of 47 gymnasts in Level 5.
New Team members were experiencing
their first State Championship. Proudly they have also got
awesome results as a novice competitors. Edward Kennedy, 10, got
10th place on P-Bars with 8.6 out of 29 gymnasts in
Level 4. Jacob Evanich,10, got 10th place on Vault
with 9.4 out of 29 gymnasts in Level 4.
Eric
Ho, 10, from GYMTEX (2nd from right) won Gold on H- Bar at S.
State!
Adam
Bergman, 8, from GYMTEX (1st from right), won Gold on Vault at
S. State!
GYMTEX
builds champions for life.
GYMTEX boys do much more outside
gym:
Omar is excellent in keeping the right
balance between Gymnastics and school academics. He maintained A
and B reports. Omar is an outstanding athlete on his school FSMS
Athletic teams: Football, Basketball and Track. He has won 3rd
in District Championship on Pole Vault. Imaging
that, he has flied over the 9 feet high stick!
Omar is keeping a healthy social life
as well.
It takes a lot of hard work and
determination to keep these four balls rolling at the same time
and achieve great results.
Omar’s hard work and the loyalty
to GYMTEX have paid off.
Michael has also won 7 gold medals in
his age group of Level 6, at City of Houston High School Meet on
April 1.
Michael is at least 6’2 tall now.
It took him a lot effort to keep his PSAT Math part 100% correct
in 10th grade and does flip, back level on the rings...
March 5th weekend Michael has been
participating competition of designing space shuttle at Space
Center. After three days competition his team came up the
third place.
Michael said, “ 99.9% kids will
not make elite or Olympians. The rest, including me, use
gymnastics as a life tool to improve our ability to learn, our
discipline, and our physical fitness."
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