Peyton Royston, Evalee Royston and Bonnie Bugge are feeling on top of the world.
The three Cobram Anglican Grammar School students are part of the Shepparton-based Revival Schoolaerobics which recently took out the Schoolaerobics National Championships held in Adelaide.
The competition was held from Saturday, August 12, to Monday, August 14, and the sports itself is designed to build fitness and help develop team-working skills among the participants.
“It entails running, jumps, push-ups and stuff like that,” Bonnie said.
Schoolaerobics is very similar to cheerleading and the three girls performed a two-minute sequence choreographed by team coaches Sean Reynolds, who runs Revival, and Daniel Johnson.
The three girls performed in the Cheer category and the students travelled to Shepparton twice a week to practice.
The theme of their piece was Triple-0 revival and was done to music related to the emergency services.
Talking to the Courier, Bonnie said the driving force behind doing schoolaerobics was her friend Evalee Royston who was also part of the team.
“I was going to join dance and then I wanted to change it up a bit and mum did some research and found aerobic school,” Evalee said.
One of the things that attract Evalee to the schoolaerobics is the fact that despite being a competition, it is a very social and friendly sport.
“Everyone was very supportive,” she said.
Evalee confessed that performing the routine, though fulfilling, was incredibly tiring and that the hardest part was being out of breath.
“It’s very hard,” Evalee said.
For Peyton Royston, the Adelaide event was the first time she went to the South Australian capital.
She said performing at the event and seeing the city with her family was a wonderful experience.
Asked if she would recommend doing schoolaerobics to others, Peyton said it was a great sport.
“I would really recommend it. It brings a lot of fitness into your life,” she said.
The Courier congratulates the three girls on their achievements.