By: Karen Mihalek

Sunday, May 7, Mnelo Park’s Arrillaga Family Gymnastics Center celebrated the facility’s fifth birthday and displayed our world class facility. The facility houses all Olympic quality competitive equipment and is capable of offering six gymnastics classes and one circus arts class at the same. We also have a viewing area for observers that has an entire glass wall that looks into the gymnastics workout area.

The Arrillaga Family Gymnastics Center offers programming to 10,000 participants per year. We offer classes to children that are walking through adults. Classes are offered Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. and Saturday. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The gymnastics facility offers classes for preschoolers that are both parent and non-parent participatory. Please view our website to view our class offerings and descriptions. 

Our gymnastics teams consist of 37 girls and 14 boys. Since moving into the Arrillaga Family Gymnastics Center we have had ten girls state champions and two boys state champions. We have had four gymnasts quality for regionals and one Level VI Regional Champion, Ezekiel Eason. 

Over 300 community members attended the celebration. The boys and girls gymnastics teams wowed spectators with an exciting exhibition showcasing all our competition quality gymnastics equipment. Silks class participants demonstrated beautiful choreographed routines that literally took the audience’s breath away. Even the gymnastics coaches showed off some of their best moves inspiring participants and spectators as well. The event concluded with light refreshments in the lobby.