Baton twirling is a sport enjoyed by boys and girls around the world, offering a combination of complex baton handling skills and body moves in conjuncture with musicality and is a wonderful combination of art and sport. It offers gracefulness, co-ordination, body awareness, and good fitness habits. While many picture majorettes marching in parades or onto college football fields, the sport is much more involved and has many unrecognized, advantageous qualities. In fact, many physical education programs throughout the world actually include twirling for its exceptional promotion of both fine and gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, balance and poise.
With a well-designed national skills development program and a variety of participation levels from recreational to competitive, baton twirling remains committed to being an easy sport to adopt and succeed at, for athletes of all ages and backgrounds. Twirling requires very little special equipment, can be done almost anywhere and provides a slew of physical and mental health benefits – all for a fraction of most dance and sport programs. Furthermore, twirling promotes and improves self-esteem and self-discipline, fosters social relations, teamwork, and sportsmanship and all while building character and helping youth form healthy foundations for active lifestyles.
Past athletes of the sport have gone on to become world-renown in many academic areas including science, law, math, medicine, research and more, and all credit the skills of responsibility, commitment, endurance, perseverance and mental discipline learned in baton, for their success in school and their careers.
And while males tend to dominate the discipline internationally, baton twirling is also highly attractive sport for many female athletes. Twirling provides opportunities for girls to do something physically enjoyable, beneficial, graceful and worthwhile, all while effortlessly engaging them in sports and healthy lifestyles.
We host recreational classes in Brampton and Georgetown and are always accepting new twirlers! Please complete the form below and we will be in touch with all the details!
We love our twirlers and their families and that is why we have strict
COVID PROTOCOLS in place!
All our practices are socially distanced (except where appropriate), athletes are required to sanitize hands and batons before, during, and after practice, and masks are mandatory for all coaches and athletes.
If you have any questions or concerns about Covid safety,
please contact us to discuss.
Club Director: (416) 562-8673 Email: starlightbatonclub@gmail.com
At Starlight Destiny, we have a passion to provide every student with a safe, fun-filled environment where they gain self-confidence, musicality, discipline, coordination and exercise.
We whole-heartedly serve, participate in and proudly represent the communities of Brampton and Halton Hills and welcome twirlers from the surrounding area as well.
Our recreational classes are a great opportunity for children to learn a new skill, meet new friends and get active, while our competitive programming offers so much more than just twirling.
Through twirling, our athletes develop into responsible members of society and gain the opportunity to travel and build lifelong friendships.
Our coaches are specialists, trained and/or certified through the Coaching Association of Canada’s National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) and CBTF, and are committed to fostering growth in all of our athletes. As professionals, they continue to hone their skills by participating in extensive ongoing training, always growing their teaching techniques to better suit the needs of today’s athletes. Our club is also affiliated with both The Canadian Baton Twirling Federation and the Canadian National Baton Twirling Association.
Members of our club have competed nationally and internationally, including:
2021 CBTF Virtual Canadian Championships
2021 Virtual Miss Majorette of Canada and CNBTA Canadian Championships
2020 Twirlmania 25th Anniversary, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida USA
2019 WBTF International Cup, Limoges, France
2019 CBTF Canadian Championships, Regina Saskatechwan, Canada
2018 AYOP Championships, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
2012 NBTA World Championships, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2009 NBTA World Championships, Ghent, Belgium
2006 NBTA World Championships, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2005 International Cup, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Congressional Cup, Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA
Proudly serving and representing the communities of Brampton and Halton Hills, Ontario Canada
C/o 55 Nanwood Drive, Brampton, ON L6W 1M1, CA
Email us: starlightbatonclub@gmail.com Call us: 416-562-8673