website: RHYTHMIC WAVES,
St. Catharines, Ontario
 Phone: 905-682-6334: F 905-732-2204
Email: emselmeczi@hotmail.com

For many years, Marta Selmeczi was a teacher and coach for the Lincoln Board of Education where she established the Public School Gymnastics Championships which are still in existence today. Many of her gymnasts were regional and provincial champions. In 1969, Mrs. Selmeczi was a founding member of Rhythmic Sportive Gymnastics (RSG) in Canada. The first amateur club for girls in the Niagara Peninsula, The Lincoln Gymnastics Club, was formed by her and her husband in 1972, for both artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.

In 1991, Mrs. Selmeczi formed the first women's all rhythmic sportive gymnastics club in the Niagara peninsula: The Rhythmic Waves Gymnastics Club. In 1996, she travelled with other Ontario coaches and judges to Finland to observe the first International Women's Group Gymnastics Competition - a new sport, later called Aesthetic Group Gymnastics - and the following year, Rhythmic Waves were the provincial champions in the young teens category. They have continued to win many medals at "Red Ribbon" and other AGG competitions and they participated in the first AGG World Championships in Finland in 2000, where they placed 5th of 26 groups from 11 countries, making the finals!

The Rhythmic Waves has also performed at several World Gymnaestradas and participated in the Gala of the Koop Cup 2011.

The Rhythmic Waves Senior AGG team also participated in the AGG Worlds in Prague, Czech Republic in 2002, in Graz, Austria in 2003 and in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2005:

2000 Helsinki (with their coach)

2002 Prague

2003 Graz

2005 Denmark

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