The Shasta Trampoline Club, based in New Westminster, British Columbia, has scooped a fair few trampolining titles since its foundation in 1975, including 13 medals in national championships – two golds included – and hundreds of provincial titles.

The club, which is named after Mt. Shasta in California, has also produced some 47 Canadian national trampolining champions, said club secretary Tim Cleave.

“Within two years of forming, the British Columbian team looked like the Shasta trampoline team,” Mr Cleave told the New Westminster News.

“Three years after the club started Canada won its first-ever world championship medal, and it was a Shasta athlete. That success has just continued.”

To mark the club’s 35^th anniversary many of these former champs have made the journey back to where it all began, and Mr Cleave was hopeful that the party will go with a bounce.

“We’re going to have the trampolines set up so people can play around. Some of them are going to be doing their very first flip in 30 years,” he said, adding that many are also eager to shake the hand of trampolining coach and club founder Val Johnson.

“Val has the ability to inspire people like nobody I’ve ever met,” said Mr Cleave, who is one of the original 13 athletes who joined the club in 1975.

“Shasta created champions but it also created really good people. When people left Shasta they didn’t just leave with their medals, they left with a whole outlook on life.”

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The event, held at Crystal Palace, saw the team from Bromley in Kent scoop the rout all opposition in the trampolining finals, although the team from nearby Bexley brought home the borough’s first ever trampoline medal when they came in third and won the bronze.

This was an especially emotional moment for the team’s manager Keith Sleafer, who has been in the role ever since the first ever London Youth Games was held in 1977.

Meanwhile, the Bromley team’s Darren Bearge claimed the silver medal in the individual boys’ competition and, from the same team, Nicola Richmond claimed gold in the girls’ category.

She told the New Shopper local newspaper: “I am very proud to win gold from Bromley. I won due to all the training and help I received from our coaches.”

Darren Bearge admitted: “I wasn’t expecting to finish second in the boys but was hoping to do well.”

The Bromley coach Robert Rowbottom said that he was over the moon, telling the paper that “last year we were first and had a girl who came first in the individual, so we came back with a good young team and they have stepped up and done very well.”

“You never know until the scores are in but I think they deserved it. We will certainly be back next year to defend that trophy.”

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