Sports programs in NYC Private Schools are not regulated to the soccer, basketball, baseball and football teams that most schools actively have in their programs. Oftentimes you will find specialized sports programs such as Gymnastics in Private Schools athletic offerings.
Wikipedia describes the Gymnastics sport as:
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Artistic Gymnastics, typically involves the women’s events of uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault. Men’s events include floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. Other forms of gymnastics are rhythmic gymnastics, various trampolining sports, and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.
At the Horace Mann Private School in NYC, the Varsity Girls Gymnastics program is very serious business, with a stellar record of excellence. The Girls’ Varsity Gymnastics Team won the AAIS Championships for the first time in 1999. In 2000, the team placed second, but has since come back to regain their title and have had 9 consecutive times since then.
According to the school-run newspaper, The Record,
Varsity Gymnastics triumphed over its competition to secure the team’s ninth consecutive AAIS Championships on Saturday. The team finished its season with a 9-5 record.
In past years, the team vaulted and tumbled effortlessly to victory. This season, they stumbled through with rough performances. Long time rivals Chapin and Brearley dominated the season.
For more informaton on this private school, you can also read our Highlight on Horace Mann.
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