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Meet Information:

World Class Invitational
December 16, 2007
Results
(Excel Spreadsheet)

Mother May I Invitational
April 5-6, 2008
Results

Level 6/7 State Meet
May 3-4, 2008
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Level 10 Regionals
April 26-27, 2008
Results (PDF)

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World Class Gymnastics
709 Middle Ground Blvd. Suite 117-B
Newport News, VA  23606
757-873-6440

Region 7 Level 10 Championship Info:
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Summer Classes and Camps

Interested in summer camps?  Click here to find out more.  Would you like to sign up for summer gymnastics or cheer classes?  Click here for our summer schedule.

Girls Compulsory Coach Needed

World Class Gymnastics is seeking a Girl's Compulsory Coach with experience working with level 4 through 7 gymnasts. Applicants must have a strong knowledge of all gymnastics skills and possess the ability to keep gymnasts enthused while building strong work ethics. Email your interest in this position.

World Class All-Stars

World Class Gymnastics is looking for a Cheer/Tumble Head Coach for our exciting and competitive All-Star Cheerleading program.  Contact World Class at 757-594-1268 for class times and more information.

Recreational Classes

World Class Gymnastics offers recreational gymnastics and cheer/tumble classes for children of all ages. Classes are also available for home schooled and special needs children.

Gymnastics Training

World Class Gymnastics provides Hampton Roads community youth of all ages with outstanding gymnastics instruction and coaching. Proven gymnastics training instruction provided to our Recreational Gymnasts introduces sound fundamentals that form the basis for our nationally-acclaimed Competitive Gymnastics teams.

A Program with Broad Reach

Our Recreational and Competitive Gymnasts come from the Tidewater communities of Hampton, Newport News, Yorktown, Gloucester, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, Chesapeake, and Suffolk to prepare themselves for competition at the highest levels in the sport of gymnastics.

Cheerleader Training

World Class Cheerleading offers Hampton Roads area youth the opportunity to combine the skills of gymnastics with the precision teamwork required to participate on top quality Cheerleading Squads. Our Cheer and Tumble Coaches and instructors are accomplished Cheerleaders in their own right, and all are safety certified.

Visit our Gymnastics Store

World Class offers a large selection of leotards in all sizes and designs at our gym store. Come by the gym and browse anytime!

World Class Gymnastics is Growing and We Need Great Coaches!

World Class Gymnastics is seeking a Coach to work with our Level 9, Level 10 and Elite Women's Competitive Team Gymnasts.  This is a salaried position with benefits included.  Click Here for More Information.

Junior Gymnast Fun Center

Our athletes learn that hard work is also fun. Our younger gymnasts can visit our online Junior Gymnast Fun Center where they can download coloring pages and word search puzzles.

Recent World Class News Articles

Morning glory for Wright
Kara Wright wins the national floor exercise and all-around titles for World Class Gymnastics of Newport News.

World Class Gymnastics coach Tami Harrison had a good feeling she'd be bringing back her first national champion from the USA Gymnastics Level 10 Junior Olympic Nationals in Oklahoma City.

Kara Wright made that feeling come true Sunday.  Wright, the top performer for the Newport News-based gym the past four years, not only won one national title but two on Sunday. She won the floor exercise with a 9.750 and the more prestigious all-around championship with 38.1 points.

Though she had to wake up at 6 in the morning to get dressed, warm up and get ready for the start of more than four hours of competition at 10:30 a.m., it turned out to be the happiest day of Wright's life.

"Oh yes. It was pretty cool," Wright said Sunday night.

Wright, in the 17-year-old Senior C Division against 55 other competitors, didn't get off to a great start, placing 18th on balance beam (9.3), normally her weakest event. But then she turned it on with an impressive, 90-second winning routine on floor to the upbeat and energetic music from the Broadway show "Chicago."

""Her floor score was the highest of the meet. Her routine was superb, awesome, flawless," Harrison said.

Next came the vault, where she scored 9.575 for a fourth place. More importantly, it gave Wright the overall lead going into her final routine, the uneven parallel bars.

"That's probably when I felt the most pressure because I knew I had to hit a clean routine," Wright said. "It wasn't my best performance (9.475 for fourth place), but I did hit it."

Harrison, knowledgeable about local gymnastics for more than 30 years, said as far as she knows, Wright is the first gymnast from a Peninsula club to win an all-around title at the USA Gymnastics Nationals.

"Kara went out with a great attitude and just performed like a national champion," said Harrison, who opened the World Class gym six years ago.

Wright was making her fourth trip to the nationals. At her first one - she was 14 at the time - she was in awe of the other competitors and didn't place.  At the time, she couldn't visualize herself becoming a national champion someday. But that began to change when she placed second on floor in 2004 and fourth on vault last year.

Three of Wright's teammates -Elizabeth Durkac, Amanda Bressette and Hilliary Dow - also did well on Sunday.

Durkac, competing in Junior C for 15-year-olds, placed sixth on beam (9.45); Bressette finished sixth on beam (9.575) in the Senior D for mainly 18-year-olds; and Dow finished 10th on bars (9.375) and 12th in the all-around (37.775) in Senior D. 

Durkac's chances of a better day ended quickly when she turned her left ankle in her opening event, the vault. She placed 34th on vault (9.250) and 22nd on her next routine, the bars (9.2), but then she finished sixth on beam while barely able to walk.

That was it for Durkac.

"Her ankle was three times the size of the other ankle, so I scratched her from the floor," Harrison said.

Harrison is hoping the team's performance at the Level 10's season-ending meet could serve as an inspiration for others at World Class.

"It was an awesome ending to a new beginning," she said. "It's time to move on to bigger and better things now that Kara has set the standard as a national champion."
 

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