The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Two coaches from Spalding Gymnastics Academy have passed their level two women’s artistic coaching exam.
Emma Goodliff and Lexi Coote both joined the Academy as youngsters and their success is a big boost for the Cradge Bank based club.
Spalding-based Goodliff, who is 20, has been a gymnast at the academy since she was five and is still a competitive gymnast now at level two. She began coaching at the age of 14 and regularly works with the recreational, boys and development squads.
She hopes to enrol on a level three course sometime next year so that she is able to coach a higher level gymnast and learn a further understanding of the sport.
Coote, an 18-year-old from Whaplode, joined the academy at eight years old but had to retire from being a competitive level four gymnast due to ill health earlier this year.
She also began coaching at the age of 14. She too coaches recreational, boys and development squads as well as having her own competitive squad of gymnasts.
Coote is studying for her A levels at Spalding High school and hopes to go to Lincoln Bishop Grosseteste in September.
