March was a good month for the Polarettes and Polar Tumblers Gymnastics Club.

The Yukon club took in three competitions, highlighted by a slew of medals, ribbons and strong placings.

March's meets marked a temporary conclusion to the competition season for the majority of its members, who will be off until May's Yukon Championships

However, there will be a small group travelling to a pair of meets in April, which has Polarettes/Polar Tumblers head coach Jenn Ryan, after their success this past month, excited about the upcoming competitions.

"They came back really motivated," she said, referring to the events in March. "So it's a lot of really good training between now and then and not a long time to get a little bit stagnant for them. I think it could be a really good meet for the girls."

This coming months competitions will include B.C. championships, from April 2-5, and Western Canadian Gymnastics championships.

Three girls, ranging from level three to five, will compete in the B.C. championships, including Anna Rivard, Emily Oettli and Corey Baxter.

Rivard, who is the club's lone level five gymnast, will be the only Yukon competitor at Westerns.

The three girls had stellar meets in March, combining for nine medals at the Mardis Gras meet.

Oettli's best finish at Mardis Gras was a silver medal in the vault event. She placed eighth overall in the level three open category.

At Mardis Gras, Baxter finished with a silver medal in the vault, floor, bars and beam events, coming in second overall in the novice level four category.

"It's been good," she said about the season. "Getting the new coach (Ryan) was the big change for us and it's not over yet, so hoping it goes good."

Rivard won a gold medal on the vault and placed second in both the beam and floor events. She also won a bronze medal on the bars and placed second overall in the level five open category.

Other Yukoners to compete at Mardis Gras included level two argo, Fayne O'Donovan. O'Donovan won a gold medal on bars and a fourth place ribbon on the beam. She placed fourth overall out of 11 athletes.

This was a big improvement for O'Donovan, who didn't even have a bar routine in 2008.

O'Donovan, nine, also won gold on bars at the always competitive Jurassic Classic, which is also held in April.

"This year I had more guts and I just went for more things," Fayne said.

Other level two Yukoners that competed in March included Caitlyn Venasse, Alana LaCoste and Mackenzie Davy.

Level two coach Catherine O'Donovan said it has been a big improvement for her athletes from last year.

"I found the highlight for me was just watching the improvement from the kids and see them calm their nerves and actually be competitors out there," she said.

The Yukon girls weren't the only gymnasts to see competitive action in March. Two boys and two coaches also headed out to watch the Elite Canada gymnastics competition, held in Surrey, B.C. in early March.

Following the Elite Canada competition was the Surrey Classic Invitational, which level three Yukon gymnasts Benoit Latour and Andrew Crist combined for three medals.

Crist performed his way to a silver medal in the floor event and received a fourth place ribbon on the high bar. He placed 12th out of 20 in the level mens' 13 and under category.

Latour, competing in the level three mens' 13 and up category, won two bronze medals in the vault and high bar events. Latour had to battle through a shoulder injury throughout the entire meet.

"It was pretty good, my category had five boys, so not that hard to get places, but I was surprised though that I actually got two medals," he said.

This was Latour's first B.C. gymnastics competition, but he said he wasn't that nervous because there his category didn't have that many competitors in it.

Shaun Porter, one of Yukon coaches for the boys, completed his level 2 technical course down in B.C.

He said he wasn't surprised with how well the two boys did in Surrey. "It was very good to see."