Athleta was a bit of a mystery to me until I started this site. It's out in Altona North, on the western side of town, a fair way from the eastern and southern venues where my daughter's circuit usually runs, and in years of turning up to comps I don't think our paths had ever crossed. That's more a comment on geography than on the club: the data says they've been quietly building something solid.
Last time, I profiled Knox Gymnastics Club, a club I've been to a few times over the years, including this past weekend for their Junior Invitational (keep an eye out for that results report once the full scores are released). Athleta is close to the opposite: a club I'd genuinely never come across before I started this site.
One of the young ones
Athleta Gymnastics opened its doors in Altona North on 23 January 2018, which puts it in rare company in this series. Here's every club we've profiled so far, by founding year (or first Vic Champs appearance, for YMCA Geelong): MYC (1954), BTYC (1963), Knox (1972), PIT (1979), YMCA Geelong (competing at Vic Champs since 1988), EKGA (2005), MAGA (August 2018), and Athleta (January 2018). Only Athleta and MAGA are under a decade old.
It didn't take long to make a mark: the club's own history page credits its first year with being crowned Best New Club of the Year, alongside a 3rd-place Level 5 team finish at the Victorian Championships. Training paused through the COVID lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, same as everywhere else, before picking back up in 2022. By 2023, five years after opening, the club's Level 5 WAG team was crowned Victorian Champions, and five athletes made the trip to the Australian Championships. In 2025, Athleta picked up nominations across four categories at the Gymnastics Victoria Awards Night, including Small Club of the Year.
What the numbers say: WAG
Thirty-six WAG athletes appear in my database for Athleta, with 177 results across 22 competitions spanning the 2024, 2025, and 2026 seasons. At Level 8 and above, the club has accumulated 22 medals in my data: 10 gold, 4 silver, and 8 bronze. Floor is where the numbers show the club's biggest relative strength against the field.
The clearest sign of depth for a club this age showed up in this year's state team selections. Ella McGrath earned a Level 9 Open State Team spot on a genuinely unusual case: she completed only bars at Trial 1, scoring 12.900 for 18th on that partial result. It was her performance at Senior Vics that got her over the line, 3rd in her session with 48.766, comfortably making up for the incomplete trial. Behind her, Abigail Alley and Edie Thomas both made the Level 9 Border Challenge team, giving Athleta three named athletes across the two main state squads this year, before the international programme is even counted.
Chontelle Burgess is the international-programme story. She had about as good a 2024 as shows up anywhere in this database: four starts at international level, four wins, capped by the WAG Senior Victorian Championships with 52.05. She's kept winning since, taking the BTYC WAG Extravaganza and the Senior Judges Invitational in 2025, then opening 2026 with wins at the Senior Judges Invitational and at WAG Trial 1 / Border Challenge Trial 1. She's one of eleven athletes named to this year's Developing International Squad, and the club's own history page separately credits her with making the Junior International Team Vic in 2025, a squad that won gold at the Australian Championships, a result that sits above what my Victoria-only database can show.
Darby Weston has climbed alongside her. She was a Level 8 athlete in 2024, finishing 3rd twice, then moved up to international level in 2025 and won the BTYC WAG Extravaganza. This year she won the Waverley Invite outright. Per the club, she was also the Australian champion in the Future International category in 2025. Athleta's history page separately notes a Border Challenge floor medal for the programme in July 2025, with Team Vic taking out the overall title; the club doesn't name the athlete involved, and I can't match it to a specific result in my data, but it's worth a mention regardless.
Further down the level system, Amelie Tinkler is the clearest junior improvement story. She finished mid-pack through 2024 at Level 7, 22nd, 14th, and 11th across three starts, then turned it around in 2025 with wins at the BTYC Junior Invite and the Metro West Regional Championships, plus a 2nd at the Niddrie Invitational. Her athlete profile page shows exactly how: her floor score has been steady the whole way, while vault, bars, and beam have all been climbing, beam most of all. Every athlete in the database gets a graph like this, apparatus by apparatus, season by season, so if there's someone at your own club you've been meaning to look up, that's where to go.
