April G.

Cheerleading/ Gymnastics Coach 20+ years experience in all age groups and levels. I began coaching younger squads as a high school student and continued as I cheered through college. I began coaching all stars in 2003 and coached all levels from mini's to level 5 for 5 seasons. I have coached pee-wee cheer and dance teams, middle school and high school cheer squads and dance teams. While raising my 3 daughters who were always involved in cheer and dance I assisted with many of their quads and competitions as well. I have judged numerous cheerleading tryouts and dance tryouts and have been involved in several national all-star selection teams at camps. I also have worked numerous tumbling clinics and cheerleading jump clinics in several different gym associations. I am a certified physical education teacher and understand the physical demands of being a successful athlete.

In junior high and high school I was chosen for NCA All-Star at every camp I attended and was invited to be on staff several times but chose not to because of the private owned gym that I ran near my home. I was given a full scholarship to college to cheer and enjoyed the experience to the fullest. I am thankful for the things I learned from all my experiences that taught me discipline and life lessons.

Always having a positive attitude and being energetic and upbeat I would give a full session of conditioning, training on specifics and goal setting for each individual client. I believe that proper planning and preparation are important and would begin each session with a small activity to raise the heart rate and have a proper warm up including stretching. I would then work on each individual skill that the girl/boy wants to be successful in as much as time allows. For instance, all levels of cheer need an excellent jump sequence. After a warm-up, motion work and technique of cheer skills, I would then add jumps practice that began with assisted jumps and then jumps alone. For more in depth sessions I would then add tumbling as a last option. At the end of each session I would set goals before the next session and make sure all practice skills are understood for individual home practice.