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2008 News:
BBC Radio Cambridge
Our local BBC radio station continues to support our club with a recent announcement of our succesful days competing at the Ipswich Open. Thank you to the folks at the BBC for your continued support

Youthscene
Cangaroos have recently featured in the Cambridge Evening News, Youthscene supplement. Two weekends running we had articles about us, including a double page spread on the 13th April edition. A link to one these articles can be found at CEN. Please keep an eye on the CEN to watch for news of the club and competition results.

The Roos
Due to movements to our other sessions, we now have some limited vacancies at our Roos sessions at Sawston Sports Centre on Saturday mornings. Please see our latest Press release for full information

Sports Panel
Following the recent interview on the breakfast show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (95.7 & 96 FM), Head Coach, Tony Fagelman and Katie-Beth McKenna were invited to take part in the Sports Panel debate on Monday 25th February. The show lasted for 1 hour and us and a pair from Grapham Water Sailing Club were invited to discuss our sport and take part in a challenge quiz, whcih we won by a crushing margin of 23 points to 19. Hopefully we have been able to improve the knowledge of our sport and increase awareness about the club.

Radio Interview:
Tony Fagelman, head coach, was interviewed on Wednesday 6th February 2008 by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The interview was about the sport, our new sesions at Chesterton and about the club in general. It was an active interview undertaken while bouncing on trampets in the studio car park, the pasing traffic must have been amused!

Acknowledgement for 20 years coaching service to Trampoline Gymnastics:
Tony Fagelman, head coach at Cangaroos was officially 'acknowledged' by the Eastern Counties Gymnastics Association at the Annual Regional Awards Evening held on January 19th 2008 at the Holiday Inn, Basildon for 20 years service in coaching the sport of Trampoline Gymnastics. It was great to see other trampoline coahces from the region also acknowledged for their 20 years of service, these were Trudy Styler and Nicki Weller. The club would like to offer its congratulations to all three for their fantastic achievement., keep up the good work.

The recent grading competition saw great success for the club. Check out Letchworth results for full information on the day

2007 News:

Death of Bert Scales:
We are sad to announce the death of Bert Scales on 22nd November 2007. Bert was a towering figure in Trampolining in the UK and was well known to head coach Tony Fagelman. More details about Bert can be found at British Gymnastics Our condolences go out to Biz and the rest of his family

Competitive success:
At the recent grading competition in Ipswich, Sophie Houseden succesfully qualified for Grade 3. See Ipswich results for more details

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire:
Tony Fagelman, Head Coach was interviewed on the Breakfast show on August 16th about the Cangaroos.

Shelford Feast - 2007
Cangaroos took part in the 2007 Shelford Feast. The squad comprising over 12 members from the club entertained the crowds for most of the day and performed a choreographed display for the gathered public. Over 6,000 people attended the day and most will have seen us perform. Pictures of the event can be found at Shelford feast. Pictures of Sophie Houseden and Trinity Kelly also appeared in the Shelford Village news shortly after the event, with Sophie dominating the front page.

In February 2007, Cangaroos was host to the Eastern Regions first Development day. This is an initiative devised by the regional Course Development Officer, John Mitchell, Cangaroos Head Coach, Tony Fagelman and Cangaroos Competition Secretary and coach, Laura Shapiro. The day was designed to be the the first of 4 such events held throughout the region to develop compeitive excellence in our up and comming trampolining stars and to enhance the work of the regions coaches, so we can all strive towards excellence and the National Technical Priorities, as promoted by GB National Coaches, Jack Kelly & John Beer. We were delighted to have Sophie Housden selected to take part in development squad. We hope that others will qualify throughout the season. The 2nd development squad day took place in May at the Ministry of Air, again Sophie attended, along with head coach Tony Fagelman. The 3rd Development day will took place on September 30th in Ipswich, but due to prior commitments, neitehr Tony nor Sophie were able to attend.

At the end of 2006, the club was delighted to receive £400 from Shelford Feast in recognition of our work. This money will go towards the purchase of the Hoist for disabled trampolinists in the region. In recognition of their generosity, Cangaroos will be performing a demonstration of of trampolining at the Feast on Sunday July 15th. For more details on this event please visit their website here

2006 News:
We succesfully held our 24 hour bounce on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th June. At 7.05am on Saturday morning, we took part in a live interview with BBC Radio Cambridgshire. Tony Fagelman was interviewed about the club and then Izzy Wilson was interviewed about the event.

In February 2006, Cambridge Cangaroos was awarded a grant of £5,000 by Awards for All, Eastern region.
The Club has since purchased a new Eurotramp deluxe with 6mm bed and two end-decks. It also purchased a new throwing in mat and will purchase a hydrolic hoist to aid our most disabled trampolinists.
We would like to thank the Awards committee for their support and for the ongoing support of Sawston Sports Centre.


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