Alo­ra ‘Peach­es’ Morang led the way as the Wolf­pack Gym­nas­tics club ex­ceed­ed all ex­pec­ta­tions at the re­cent 2022 Co­pa IGA In­ter­na­tion­al Com­pe­ti­tion at the Al­ber­to Du­ran Are­na in Pana­ma City, Pana­ma at the week­end.

‘Peach­es’ as she is af­fec­tion­ate­ly called, was named the over­all win­ner of lev­el 8, which is con­sid­ered the high­est lev­el of com­pe­ti­tion at the tour­na­ment. This achieve­ment came af­ter she bagged two gold medals and as many bronze medals in that di­vi­sion.

The 10-year-old, stan­dard four stu­dent of the Low­er Mor­vant Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School al­so placed fourth in the tram­po­line in lev­el two while her team­mate An­nalise Alexan­der was sixth.

Team coach Dale Ali, in a re­lease yes­ter­day said: “ Peach­es’ last com­pe­ti­tion was at lev­el 3, and at on­ly 10 years of age, she is one of our fu­ture home­grown prospects to rep­re­sent the red, black, and white in the fu­ture. She trains 32 hours a week, six days, and is al­ways in the gym ear­ly in the morn­ing from five o’clock, four days a week, then off to school.”

Peach­es was on­ly one of the many high­lights com­ing out of the club in Pana­ma, as the club al­so record­ed his­to­ry with sev­en of its mem­bers com­pet­ing in the tram­po­line event, and from it, Asia Ali and Onia Hep­burn claim­ing the gold and the sil­ver medal re­spec­tive­ly in lev­el one of their age groups.

There was al­so a bronze medal in the tram­po­line for Me-Hera Cal­len­der, while Zoey Ot­t­ley and Yliana-Rose San­cho fin­ished fourth and fifth places re­spec­tive­ly.

Mean­while, Zari­ah Git­tens-Dop­well was al­so in win­ner’s row at the week­end, as she cap­tured third over­all in all the events, fol­low­ing her sil­ver-medal per­for­mance in the floor as well as the bal­ance beam.

Ali said it was a breadth of fresh air for his club and his gym­nasts fol­low­ing the two-year shut-down caused by the covid-19 pan­dem­ic.

“With our Acad­e­my be­ing a faith-based or­ga­ni­za­tion, we pay par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to the men­tal, spir­i­tu­al, psy­cho­log­i­cal, phys­i­cal, and holis­tic de­vel­op­ment of all our ath­letes, who start as ear­ly as two years of age. The Wolf­pack is now in prepa­ra­tion to rep­re­sent T&T at the PAGU Hopes com­pe­ti­tion in Bo­go­ta, Colom­bia this De­cem­ber, fol­lowed by the Olympia Caribbean Clas­sic in April,” Ali ex­plained.

“Our sport can on­ly go up­wards with more pos­i­tive events and ac­tiv­i­ties on the hori­zon and as echoed by the team’s mantra, ‘At Olympia Life is Awe­some.”