Classes Closed Saturday 2.4.12 in Allen
Please note that EWA Allen will be closed Saturday February 4th for the Friendship Invitational meet. Since this day is worked into our guaranteed 48 classes per year, we will not be doing a make-up for this class. For a list of your 48 classes or any questions regarding the closure, please see the front desk.
Come support our EWA Mens team by cheering them on from the stands that day! Tickets are $7 for adults, $4 for children 10 and under, and children 3 and under are FREE! See you Saturday!
Men’s Team Rocks
The Eagle’s Wings Athletics Men’s Team is getting close to the end of their competitive season. They have been improving steadily, and they have had great showings at their meets! Recently the EWA Men’s Team hosted one of the biggest and best Level 6-10 State Championships at McKinney North High School. It was an incredible weekend with the gymnasts, coaches, parents, staff, and the coaches/judges from the men’s community all helping together to make it such a huge success!! All of our Level 6-10s qualified to the Regional Meet that will be in Austin from April 1st-3rd. The Level 4s & 5s just had their last invitational meet in Garland at the Brandenburg Invite on March 26th. They all improved in many areas and the Level 5s were able to compete as a team one last time before the state meet (which will have them separated by age-groups and sessions). Ryan Phillips won the Gold Medal on Parallel Bars, and several of our boys received silver and bronze medals. The Level 4s & 5s end their season with their state meet on April 9th & 10th in Euless. The Level 6s & 8s end their season with the regional meet mentioned above. The Level 9s and 10s will try to qualify from regionals to the National Meet that will be in Long Beach, California, from May 3rd-8th. So, great job so far boys, and good luck as you finish your season!!! Go EWA Boys!!! 
Solid Season So Far!
The Eagle’s Wings Athletics Men’s Gymnastics Team has been having a solid season so far!! Currently they are in the middle of their season. Here are a few of the stats and information: The Level 6s won the 1st place team award at the Lone Star Invitational! The Level 8s received 2nd at the Star Center Invitational, and the Level 9s received 4th there. The Level 8s received 4th at the Ricky Deci Meet. The Level 9s and the Level 10s each received 3rd place at the GymMasters Invitational. The Level 8 boys won the 1st place team trophy at the Kansas City Classic in Missouri! The Level 9 & 10s had a meet - The BlackJack National Invitational - in Las Vegas. This meet is held in conjunction with the Elite Qualifier known as the Men’s Winter Cup Challenge that has several Olympic and World Team Members present during the competition! The Level 4 & 5 boys have been doing great having received several individual and all-around awards as well! The EWA Men’s Team just finished hosting its annual Friendship Invitation here at EWA (Allen location) - Saturday & Sunday, Feb. 12th-13th, and it was AMAZING! The Level 6s received 2nd place team, the Level 8s also received 2nd place, and the Level 9s & 10s combined received the first place team award!! We had incredible performances, scores, and the boys, parents, coaches, judges, and the entire crowd really got into the spirit of the meet! We hope you were able to come watch our great Level 4-10s and cheer them on!! It was really exciting!! Go to EWAGYM.com to see more detailed results and information about the men’s team.
Saturday Class Closure
Please note that Saturday Classes are canceled this week due to Friendship Invitational held at EWA! Come cheer on your favorite boys team and see what competition is all about. The meet will go from about 8a-3p on Saturday and Sunday it will go from 10a-2p. Chuck A Puck is one of the highlights of the meet for spectators! You won’t want to miss this exciting meet! The cost to get in is minimal, so grab your family and head on out to EWA this weekend!
Road Side Clean Up
At EWA we love to give back to the community with FREE events, donations to school auctions and more. This past weekend our Boys team took some time to clean up Jupiter Rd. from Bethany to Greenville. We have adopted this Highway and have been cleaning it up 4 times a year for 3 years now! Taking about 2 hours to get all the garbage up, our boys team had a good time Keeping Allen Beautiful!
Boys Level 4 & 5 State
BOYS LEVEL 4 & 5 STATE
EWA’s men’s team brought home a championship team title, as well as four individual titles, from the Level 4 & 5 North State competition held in Garland on April 24.
The Level 5 boys, ages 12 and over, won first place team with only three members. Each one also won at least one North State Champion title. Brian Le won high bar (15.2) and all-around (89.8), earned second place on parallel bars (15.4), and tied for second on floor exercise (14.9) and pommel horse/mushroom (14.8). He also won third place on vault (14.7) and fourth on still rings (14.8) for a great showing.
Andy Hoover was the still rings champion (15.2), earned third place on parallel bars (14.9), and sixth on floor exercise and high bar.
Chance Melancon beat out his teammates for first place on parallel bars, winning with a score of 15.5. He placed fifth on floor exercise and sixth on rings.
Jake Sikora competed in the Level 5, age 10-11 division, placing third on pommel horse/mushroom (15.2) and parallel bars (14.6). In the age 7-8 group, Gavin McCallister tied for second place on floor (15.4), took fourth place on high bar (14.6), and earned seventh place all-around. Logan Cobb tied for fourth place on floor exercise (15.3), tied for fifth on vault (14.6), and placed seventh on parallel bars (15.1).
The Level 4 team also competed. Seven year-old Ethan Tibbs tied for fourth place on both vault (14.80) and rings (14.5), and tied for sixth place with a 14.8 on parallel bars and floor exercise. Braxton Brooks and Garrett Ganakos both age 6, each earned scores in the top ten on vault and parallel bars.
Winners at Regionals
WINNERS AT REGIONALS
Cole Wilhelm didn’t just win, he won big. Cole has had an extremely successful competitive season as a gymnast at Eagle’s Wings Athletics (EWA) in Allen. The season is not over yet, but Cole returned to Allen as Regional Champion times three. He won first place on parallel bars with a score of 15.0, first on high bar (14.7) and tied for first on vault (15.2). He earned a silver medal on floor exercise (15.5) and all around (87.7), and took 11th on pommel horse (13.0) and 12th on still rings (14.3) out of the 23 competitors in the Level 7, age 12-13 division.
The USA Men’s Gymnastics Regional Championships were held April 9-10 at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fifteen EWA gymnasts, levels 6 through 10, competed. Only Levels 9 and 10 are eligible to advance to Nationals, held in Tennessee next month, and all of EWA’s Level 9 and 10 athletes did just that.
On the Level 10 team, Evan Fitzgerald earned fourth on pommel horse (13.15), and eighth on floor exercise and high bar in the 14-15 year-old division. He earned 12th place all-around with a score of 75.05. Logan Doughty, in the 16-18 group, tied for seventh on parallel bars (13.75), placed ninth on floor exercise, and 12th on high bar. These two, along with teammate Justin Muenz, and Level 9 Cameron Lake, will be advancing to Nationals.
Chandler Guvernator competed Level 8, where he earned fourth place on high bar (11.15), fifth on vault (12.2) and rings (11.5), ninth on floor exercise, and 8th all-around (67.8).
Other notable finishes from the men’s team were Level 7 Drew Huck earning tenth on floor exercise, Level 6 Brian McCray (age 12-13 division) placing fifth on vault (14.2) and ninth on parallel bars, and Carter Frederick placing ninth on bars in the Level 6, age 8-9 division.
Boys Level 6-10 State
BOYS LEVEL 6-10 STATE
The Men’s gymnastics team from EWA traveled to Austin for the Level 6-10 State Championships. Cole Wilhelm, a Level 7 athlete in the age 12-13 group, was a four-time State champion, earning first place wins on vault (15.1), parallel bars (14.8), pommel horse (14.0) and all-around (85.9). He tied for silver on high bar (14.3) and placed fourth on floor exercise (14.4) and seventh on still rings (13.3). Wilhelm, along with Level 7 teammates Drew Huck and Christopher Bowling, qualified to advance to the Regional Championships.
Level 8 Chandler Guvernator and Level 9 Cameron Lake also qualified for Regionals. Guvernator tied for eighth place all-around (67.6), earning fourth on vault (12.9), tying for seventh on rings (11.0), and placing eighth on parallel bars (11.9) and high bar (10.6).
Level 10 Justin Muenz tied for sixth on high bar and earned tenth all-around in the age 16-18 group. Johann Handszer took bronze on still rings (12.7) and pommel horse (12.6) and sixth on vault (13.75). He was injured during warm ups on high bar so scratched the last two events. Evan Fitzgerald, in the age 14-15 division, earned fifth place on floor exercise (13.3), tied for seventh on pommel horse (12.2) and tied for tenth on vault (13.4). Muenz, Fitzgerald, and Logan Doughty qualified to Regionals, while Handzser will petition straight to Nationals.
Several Level 6 gymnasts placed in the top ten as well. Carter Frederick tied for sixth place on parallel bars (15.0) in the 8-9 year old group. Bradley Weatherford, age 11, took seventh on vault (15.0), while in the age 12-13 group Brian McCray tied for sixth place on parallel bars (14.1), and took eighth place on high bar (14.5) and still rings (12.1).
Head Coach Greg Schram, along with Bob Martichuski, Wesley Cox, Craig Locke, and Evan Fitzgerald coach the men’s team at EWA.
Men’s Team on the Move
MEN’S TEAM ON THE MOVE
Two Level 10s from Allen’s Eagle’s Wings Athletics men’s gymnastics team competed in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Men’s Intercollegiate Gymnastics Support (MIGS) Program National Meet. The main goal of the MIGS program is to increase participation in men’s gymnastics in college.
Logan Doughty was the parallel bars champion in the age 16-18 division. He also earned second place on high bar (12.6), and third on vault (14.3), still rings (11.6) and all-around (75.2).
Evan Fitzgerald competed in the age 14-15 group. He earned four silver medals - all-around (74.7), vault (14.2), floor exercise (13.7), and pommel horse (12.4), and bronze on high bar (11.2).
“With only our two boys competing, we still received third place team out of the four teams,” remarked EWA’s head men’s team coach Greg Schram.
Boys from the Levels 4 and 5 teams competed in Euless at the Empire Last Chance Meet. Brian Le was the Level 5, age 12 and over all-around champion, earning 88.5 total. He was also the pommel horse/mushroom champ (14.8) and tied for first on parallel bars (14.6). He earned silver medals on floor exercise (15.0), high bar (14.9) and vault (14.8). His parallel bars tie was with teammate Chance Melancon, who also placed third on floor exercise (14.7). Andy Hoover won bronze on vault (14.7) and rings (14.6).
Jake Sikora, who competed in the 10-11 division, tied for second on high bar (14.5) and vault (14.2), and earned third on pommel horse/mushroom (14.6), rings (14.5), and all-around (86.4). Gavin McCallister tied for third on rings (14.9) in the age 7-8 division.
On the Level 4 team, Ethan Tibbs won third on pommel horse/mushroom (12.0) and fourth all-around (84.0). Braxton Brooks placed third on parallel bars (14.8), while Garrett Ganakos tied for third on vault (14.3).
“The Level 4 boys showed a lot of improvement at this meet from their last meet,” said Coach Schram. “They were more focused and dedicated.”
Houston Meet Draws World Athletes
HOUSTON MEET DRAWS WORLD ATHLETES
Top gymnasts from around the world gathered at the George Brown Convention Center March 4–7 for the 16th Annual Houston International Invitational. Among those competing were the trampoline and tumbling team (T & T) and the men’s gymnastics team from Eagle’s Wings Athletics (EWA) in Allen.
Several members of EWA’s T & T team took part in the synchronized trampoline competition. Cole Kirby and Wyatt Sharp were right in sync, and came away as the Level 7 winners. In the Level 9 division, Rebecca Clouthier and Hannah Green won a silver medal, while Caden Kirby and Isaac Rowley won bronze. Coming in second place for Level 6 were Caeley Black and Tyler Dunning.
Cole Kirby and Dunning also earned gold medals in individual events in the 9 and 10 year-old group. Kirby won first on double mini in the Level 7 division, and placed second on trampoline. Dunning won his gold in Level 5 tumbling, and added a silver medal for Level 6 trampoline, and a bronze for Level 7 double mini.
In the Level 9 age 11-12 division, Rowley took second on double mini, while Caden Kirby took third. Rowley also took third on trampoline.
In the 15 and over group, Bryan Bashrum earned two bronze medals – Level 10 double mini and Level 9 trampoline. Hannah Green and Kelsey Dock took second and third, respectively, on Level 9 double mini. Sara Stewart competed level 7 tumbling where she earned a silver medal for second place.
Level 10’s Melissa Courtad and Sydney Wendt won bronze medals. Courtad earned hers on trampoline in the 17 and over age group, while Wendt, in the age 13-14 group, earned third on tumbling and trampoline.
Brittany Stout won second place in level 8 tumbling and Macey Levine took silver medals on both Level 7 double mini and Level 5 tumbling.
The EWA men’s gymnastics team also had their day at the Invitational. Level 7 Cole Wilhelm won second place on high bar with a score of 14.8, and tied for second on vault (14.4). Out of the 15 competitors in the age 12 and over group, he place fifth all-around (83.0). Drew Huck and Christopher Bowling competed in the age 10-11 division, with 56 other athletes. Huck took sixth place on pommel horse, tied for eighth on vault, and tied for ninth on floor exercise to earn ninth place all-around (85.3).
Level 8 Chandler Guvernator was one of 43 gymnasts in the age 12 and over division. He tied for eighth place on pommel horse and eleventh place all-around (66.5).
Cameron Lake, Level 9, tied for 12th place on floor exercise out of the 78 competitors in his age group.
Johann Handszer and Evan Fitzgerald competed Level 10 in the age 14-15 group. Handszer tied for fifth place on floor exercise (13.7), earned sixth on pommel horse (13.5), tied for eighth on still rings, and tenth on parallel bars and high bar to place sixth all-around (78.2). Fitzgerald placed tenth on vault out of the 48 competitors. On high bar in the age 16-18 division, Justin Muenz earned the seventh spot and Logan Doughty tied for ninth, out of the 57 athletes competing.
