Howick Rhythmics

A fantastic weekend for our Howick Rhythmics athletes at the Wellington Opens 2026! ✨💙

Huge congratulations to all of our gymnasts who achieved top 4 placings:

🥇🥈 Mandy Belding – 1st All Around, 1st Hoop & 2nd Freehand

🥇🥇🥈 Cadence Grobbelaar – 1st Freehand, 1st Hoop, Equal 2nd All Around & 4th Clubs

🥈 Zarah McLaren – 2nd Hoop

🥉 Lilia Kavanagh – 3rd Clubs

🥉 Jade Li – 3rd Freehand

🏅 Alice South – 4th Freehand

A special congratulations also to our group:
🚂 Grade 3 Group “Polar Express” – 2nd Place

We are so proud of all of our gymnasts for their hard work, confidence, and beautiful performances across the weekend! 💫

What an incredible weekend away for our Senior Girls in Wellington! ✈️🤸‍♀️

A huge thank you to for hosting such an amazing event and creating such a positive competition experience for all of our athletes.

Outside of the competition floor, the girls loved making memories together — visiting The Beehive, walking along the beautiful Wellington waterfront, and finishing with a lovely team dinner together thanks to .nz ❤️

We are so proud of the way the girls represented our club both on and off the floor this weekend and we cannnot wait to update you on the results! 👏

Term 2 starts today at Howick Rhythmics and we are so excited to welcome everyone back for another amazing term!

Before the holidays, our gymnasts had a fantastic time at our HR GFA Festival, showcasing all the skills they’ve been working so hard on. It was wonderful to see their confidence, smiles, and love for rhythmic gymnastics shining through — we are so proud of everyone who took part!

We still have spaces available in our recreational classes, and would love to welcome some new faces to our rhythmic family:

Tuesday – Farm Cove Intermediate
🕓 4:45pm – 5:45pm

Thursday – Somerville Intermediate
🕔 5:00pm – 6:00pm

Rhythmic gymnastics is a beautiful sport that combines movement, flexibility, dance, and apparatus skills in a fun and supportive environment. Whether your child is brand new or already loves gymnastics, our friendly coaches are here to help them grow in confidence and have fun.

Come and join the Howick Rhythmics family this term!

Come along and give Howick Rhythmics a try at our FREE Trial Day tomorrow!

If you’ve ever wanted to experience the beauty and excitement of rhythmic gymnastics, now is the perfect chance. Rhythmic gymnastics is a unique sport that combines grace, flexibility, coordination, dance, and apparatus skills with ribbons, hoops, balls, clubs, and rope — all in a fun and supportive environment.

At Howick Rhythmics, we are proud to be a family-based club where every gymnast is encouraged to grow in confidence, make friendships, and develop skills while being part of a welcoming and positive community. Whether your child is brand new to the sport or looking to try something different, we would love to welcome you!

FREE Trial Day
📍 Farm Cove Intermediate Gymnasium
🕓 Tomorrow | 4:45pm – 5:45pm

Come meet our friendly coaches, have some fun, and see what makes rhythmic gymnastics such a wonderful sport!

We can’t wait to see you there! Bookings for the Trial can be made here: https://forms.gle/om8f8obi2vHkHAbF7

✨ GFA Festival This Weekend! ✨

Come down and support our incredible gymnasts as they take the floor and show off their hard work, skills, and passion 🤸‍♀️

If you’ve ever been curious about what rhythmic gymnastics is all about, this is the perfect chance to see it in action—grace, strength, and plenty of fun all in one place!

📍 Held at Farm Cove Intermediate Gymnasium
🎟 Entry: $5 (Under 5’s FREE)

We’ll also have a small canteen and trinkets available to purchase throughout the morning. Bring your friends and family, cheer loud, and be part of a great competition celebrating our gymnasts 💜

Our Senior girls planned a dress up session at for St Patrick's Day at training last night! Our favourite comment "I am going to the best routine because its a green day and that's my favourite colour" 💚🍀

Our annual Bring & Buy second hand sale is happening on the 24th of March! Any equipment or leotards that you might have to sell would be extremely helpful to our gymnasts!

We will be accepting items up until the 23rd of March so please drop them into training or send us through an email. All items will need to be clearly labelled with your name, price and bank details.

How cool for Coach Sophie to be named in Team New Zealand heading to Japan for the Tamara Cup? Congratulations Sophie, we are so proud of you 💙🇯🇵💙

🇳🇿 2026 Tamara Cup 🇯🇵

Wishing the following team all the best as they represent New Zealand at the Tamara Cup in Japan, to be held 14-16 August. 👏👏

14-15 yrs
- Autumn Anderson - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Elena ZiLin Zhang - Delta Rhythmic
- Lily Botha - Delta Rhythmic
- Poppy Kirsopp - Olympia Gymnastic Sports
- Sadie Swainson Wilson - Elements Rhythmic

16+ yrs
- Adelle King - Future Gymnastics
- Alysa Tzy-Cheng Lin - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Alysha Read - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Amelie Black - Olympia Gymnastic Sports
- Anita Cheng - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Louella Chabal-T - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Mia Henning - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Myra Tan - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Sophie Chapman - Delta Rhythmic
- Sophie Smith - Counties Manukau Gymnastics
- Zoe Parnell - Counties Manukau Gymnastics

- Coach: Eleanor Ross - Elements Rhythmic
- Coach: Kathryn Holdsworth - Olympia Gymnastic Sports
- Judge: Megan Rensburg - Elements Rhythmic
- Manager: Danielle Kirsopp - Olympia Gymnastic Sports
- Athlete support: Honour Anderson - Counties

We loved celebrating Valentines Day at training yesterday ❤️