No Washington college teams yet.ġ939 - George Lewis started coaching at the Seattle YMCA.ġ940-1945 - Not much happening in gymnastics during the War Years. (AAU)ġ932 -1939 - Seattle YMCA sponsored state high school invitationals.ġ936 - Louis Hull took over the Roosevelt HS program.ġ938 - The first NCAA Championships in gymnastics held. (George Lewis' school)ġ930's - Pacific Northwest and Pacific Coast Gymnastics Championships were held. The program included: Grand March Figure Marching and Dumb Bell Drill Exercises with the Rifle Boxing American Folk Dances Floor and Mat Exercises Apparatus Work Advanced Apparatus Work -heavy gym class and Pyramids on parallel bars Tumbling and Mat Work Pompeian Flower Girls and Wrestling.ġ922 - Roosevelt High School opened, and Sheridan Berthiaume started co-ed tumbling classes. Also exhibition teams existed.ġ916 - German Turnverein was in downtown Seattle at this time.ġ917 - Washington State College (WSC later WSU) held it's annual Gymnastics Exhibition presented by the Dept. (3)ġ800's Frollen, Beck and Lieber came from Germany and started gymnastics in America.ġ897 AAU recognized Gymnastics as a sport.ġ900 - Early 1900's, Seattle YMCA and AAU had competitions. He instituted the mass exhibition programs which became common in Turnvereins. Hundreds of students would participate in a mass floor exercise drill.įriedrich Ludwig Jahn: His motto was, "free in spirit, strong in body, cheerful, intelligent and dependable." He wrote the manual, German Gymnastics, in 1816. Hjalmar Frederick Ling: started the movement in Sweden in the mid 1800's. He describes the use of sloping beams, climbing poles, ladders and ropes along with the balancing beam and the swinging beam.įranz Nachtegall: founded the gymnastics program in Denmark, emphasizing mass calisthenics, mass vaulting and drills using dumbbells and balls. Guts Muths: "Grandfather of Gymnastics" wrote, in 1793, Gymnastics for Youth, the first book on Modern Gymnastics. Johann Bernhard Basedow, German who founded the Philanthropinum and "Education of the Mind and Body". The Greek civilization trained their athletes in a variety of athletic activities including leaping, dancing and running. Carvings show the existence of athletic competition in the Western World. In ancient Persia, India, Japan, and Egypt, there appears to be evidence of a variety of balancing and tumbling activities. History ancient Chinese had some activities that resembled gymnastics. Unrecorded: Not possible to know the exact date of the start of gymnastics, however, as early as 2600 B.C., the I am grateful to have the opportunity to continue the Y’s legacy to enrich and enhance the Westport and Weston communities.WASHINGTON GYMNASTICS HISTORICAL TIMELINE The mission of the Y and the meaningful difference it makes in the lives of individuals and families in the communities it serves is what drew me to it. I started working for the Y about ten years ago. More importantly, they learned about discipline, teamwork, and sportsmanship. It is where I stayed fit and made friends and where my three children learned to how to swim and where they first played soccer and basketball. I became a member of the Summit YMCA in NJ after moving there from NYC. The Y today, as it was then, welcomes all, is community-centered, and focused on the well being of the whole person in spirit, mind, and body. My Y story began almost 90 years ago when my grandfather left India and made his way to the University of Kansas where he joined the Y.
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