Renascence Trampoline Club over the last year has become one of the top contenders in the South West, and is showing great strength nationally as last weekend the club took as many individual wins as any other club in the country.

Having been registered as a club for only 18 months now, Renascence have 7 national Grade 1 performers and with only 2 competitions of the Grade 1 season completed, now has all 7 of these performers qualified to the National Championships in July.

The first Grade 1 in Eastleigh saw Ella Mae Bolton take the Under 11 girls by storm winning her first ever grade 1 competition and qualifying for the Nationals. Rebecca Sandt also made the final and qualified for the Nationals in the same event.

Last weekend at Littledown Harvey Donnelly won the Under 19 Boys event and qualified for the National Championships.

Danielle Pietruszka who has previously won 5 national titles won the under 19 girls event.

Jasper Dallard won his first Grade 1 under 11 boys competition and qualified for the nationals.

Emily Mulcahy was 4^th going in to the finals and qualified for the National Finals.

Sapphire Dallard came 4^th in the Under 13 girls, a very competitive event, and qualified for the Nationals.

Ella Mae Bolton again put in a fantastic performance and finished 2^nd place in the Under 11 girls, whilst team mate Rebecca Sandt narrowly missed 3^rd place in the same event.

The Grade 2 performers for Renascence are also doing extremely well. In the first Grade 2 event of the year, Celine Yeatman won her first podium place finishing 3^rd and qualifying to the Grade 2 National finals.

Danielle cairns finished in second place in the Under 19 Girls, also qualifying to the Grade 2 Nationals.

Harriet Mulcahy and Rebecca Cresswell are holding their own in extremely competitive fields and are predicted to qualify to the Grade 2 Nationals in a few weeks in Hull or in Cardiff in April.

Renascence Trampoline Club which is based at Broadstone Leisure Centre and Osprey Leisure Centre in Portland, also have 4 grade 3 performers, 15 grade 4 performers, 50 grade 5 performers and on top of all this about 150 trampolinists who participate purely for fun and enjoyment.

On the 9^th March 2008 Renascence entered their second regional grading competition for Grade 3,4 & 5 performers. The event held at the Wellsprings Leisure Centre – Taunton proved another successful day for the club.

With 37 entries from Renascence (one of the largest from any single club) the day was busy.

In the Grade 5 under 9 girls event Renascence had 7 entries. For this whole group it was either their 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd ever competition. The trampolinists finished in 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 13^th, 14^th, 15^th, and 19^th. In the team event the two Renascence teams finished 3^rd and 4^th.

In the Grade 5 under 9 boys event, Renascence had just 1 entry and came home with the gold medal.

The Under 11 girl’s event saw another large entry from Renascence of 9 trampolinists. Again for many this was one of their first ever competitions and the Renascence Club members finished in 6^th, 8^th, 10^th, 12^th, 13^th, 15^th, 17^th, 22^nd and 29^th out of a total field of 45. In the team event Renascence had 3 teams finishing in 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th.

Renascence had 1 entry into each of the Grade 5 Under 11 Boys, Under 13 Boys and Under 13 Girls with final results of 4^th, 6^th and 16^th respectively.

In the Under 15 Girls event at Grade 5 Renascence had one team of 3 girls who took the team gold with excellent performances earning them 2^nd, 4^th and 5^th individually.

Moving on to Grade 4, in the Under 11 girls event a team of 4 narrowly missed a team medal finishing in 4^th place, whilst individually finishing in 6^th, 11^th, 20^th and 26^th.

In the Under 11 boys, Under 13 girls, Under 13 Boys and Under 15 girls grade 4 events, Renascence had 1 representative per group finishing in 4^th, 2^nd, 9^th and 2^nd respectively.

The Under 17 Girls grade 4 event again saw a team entry from Renascence consisting of 3 girls finishing individually in 1^st, 5^th and 13^th allowing them to take home the team gold.

In the Over 17 Girls Grade 4 event Renascence had 1 entrant finishing in 5^th place.

The 2 entries that Renascence had into the Grade 3 events made the end of a long day a little tenser. With both girls capable of qualifying up from Regional level to National level at Grade 2, nerves were rife. To qualify up the grade certain scores after the first 2 rounds had to be attained. For Millie Cameron in the Under 11 Girls event a score of 49.0 and for Ella Currell in the Under 13 girls event a score of 49.5, were the targets. There was no room for error and with them both cutting it fine after the first round tensions grew even more, however, with 2 extremely solid performance both Mille and Ella qualified to Grade 2 with Millie achieving 49.1 and Ella being a little more precise with her scores totalling 49.5 exactly. Millie finished in 5^th place whilst Ella finished in 2^nd.

Sunday 9^th March was also the day of the National Schools Championship Finals. The event held at the Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre in Birmingham accommodated 5 trampolinists from Renascence. In the Under 11 Girls event Ella Mae Bolton finished in 6^th place whilst Rebecca Sandt finished in 9^th. Rebecca along with her school team mates also took the National Schools Under 11 Girls team title for 2008. Lucy Froud in the Under 13 Girls and Danielle Pietruszka in the Under 19 Girls event, both won giving them a 2007/2008 National Schools Championship Title to bring home. Nicola Norman, along with her team took a Bronze Medal in the team event.

An exceptional start to 2008 for Renascence and they hope the success will continue on for many years.