WELCOME TO THE CHELSEA PIERS GYMNASTICS TEAM!
Dear Parents of Chelsea Piers Gymnasts:
Welcome to the Chelsea Piers Girls Gymnastics Team! We are pleased that you have chosen our program for your child. We offer a competitive program where it is our goal to provide uniform quality instruction, and to ensure each girl experiences the joy of this magnificent sport to her fullest potential as a successful athlete, a confident competitor and a well-regarded teammate.
Gymnastics is a sport that engenders healthy, strong, agile bodies through regular practice. In addition to physical development, your child will learn motivation, self-discipline, determination, time management, teamwork, poise, grace and leadership. We believe these qualities translate into the development of a healthy self esteem and strong sense of confidence, helping pave the way towards becoming a happy and responsible adult.
Success in our sport is a measure of each athlete achieving her personal goals, whether it is a matter of acquiring a new skill during regular practice in the gym or performing it to the best of her ability during competition. In this sense gymnastics is a highly individualistic sport, which we take into account as we are devising each athlete’s work-out plan.
Working with a team provides gymnasts with a strong sense of belonging, and being supportive of each other both in and out of competition is a natural outcome for team girls that is both encouraged and expected. We believe in fostering such an environment, and the girls come to understand how powerful and satisfying it is to be one of a larger group. The bonds that form and emerge out of the team experience often remain strong even as athletes graduate and move on from club sport.
With this philosophy in mind, the coaches and staff of the CP Girls Gymnastics Program are committed to ensuring that our program offers each gymnast the opportunity to pursue learning the sport in a vigorous yet safe manner with the goal of competing at an appropriate level.
The other team coaches and I look forward to working with your daughters. Thank you for being a part of our community.
Go Piers!
Chris McClain
Head Coach
Chelsea Piers Gymnastics Program