By Craig Jones
Noosa-based gymnast Kyle McCartney will be the first Cooroy Gymnast to represent Queensland at the Australian Gymnastics Championships next week.
Kyle will compete as part of the Queensland level 10 team on all six apparatus.
He qualified for the championships at the recent Queensland Gymnastics Championship where he finished second on vault, third on rings, third on parallel bars and sixth all round.
Since the state titles, he has been working with his coach, Rico Ramerez, working at refining his skill and routines.
Kyle is a Year 12 student at Sunshine Coast Grammar and manages to fit in school with training five days a week at the Cooroy Gymnastics Club.
“Kyle has been training hard and will do well. We may see Kyle and the Cooroy Club awarded it’s first Australian Championship Medal,” Rico said.
The Australian Gymnastics Championships will be held at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena from 26 May to 4 June, and anyone who wants to watch the action can live stream the event online.
