Canowindra High School's Addison and Reaghan Fliedner travelled to Gosford last week to compete at the Combined High Schools (CHS) State Trampoline Championships and returned with strong results.
Reaghan achieved an outstanding 1st place in the 16 Years Girls Double Mini and Single Mini, while Addison impressed with a third place in Tumbling.
Canowindra High School placed 9th overall out of around 30 schools from across NSW
This was Addison and Reaghan's third year representing Canowindra High in a gymnastics discipline outside their usual sport of Sports Acrobatics.
Both girls showed fantastic improvement across the four apparatus of Trampoline, Tumbling, Double Mini and Single Mini.
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The sisters were highly competitive across all events, with Reaghan narrowly missing a spot in the prestigious Champion of Champions competition.
Addison first started trampolining she was doing Acro at Central West Sports and said she was always on the trampoline as a kid and decided to get into it competitively.
Addison said a major inspiration and help to her is Georgie Howell, a national level trampolinist, and the thing she likes the most about the sport is that it is a non contact sport.
Stepping out into this competition, Addison said she was nervous as trampolining isn't her usual field of gymnastic and wasn't as confident as some of the other competitors.
She remarked one of her most memorable moments was placing third in tumbling and fourth overall.
"It felt good to represent my school and community because I was proud of the level I was competing at," she said
As part of her training regimen, Addison trains twice a week, two hours on Monday and three hours on Thursday at Central West Gymsports with a focus on Acro.
Addison said she has had a little extra time recently to focus on training in trampolining while her Acro partner recovers from a broken arm.
Looking forward, Addison said she is hoping to take on training in trampolining alongside Acro more regularly.
For Reaghan, she wasn't too nervous before going out to the first three apparatuses - which she managed to get two gold medals for - the double mini and the singlie mini.
Reaghan said she tried her hand at trampolining as many of her friends from the gym were undertaking the sport.
While she spent eight years doing Acro, Reaghan said it wasn't really working out, so she decided to swap to trampolining.
Reaghan said one of her inspirations to go into trampolining is one of her friends Georgie Howell, and one of the things she loves about the sport are the friendships she has made over the years.
At this year's competition, Reaghan said the most memorable thing was placing in the single mini and double mini categories and she improved her scores from last year.
To get to this level of competition, Reaghan trains twice a week, almost three hours on Monday and three hours on Thursday.
A usual training session includes warmup, strength training and skill work and cool down.
Reaghan said she hopes trampolining takes her to the national titles and going to compete internationally would be a great accomplishment,
