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April N., Madison, WI Gymnastics Coach

April N.

Gymnastics

SILVER

A positive and passionate coach and trainer helping students reach their unlimited potential for over 20 years. View all coaching experience

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Training Locations
Training Locations
  1. Middleton, WI

Coach is willing to travel up to 10 miles

  • Northern Kentucky University (KY)

  • 25 years

  • Qualified Private Coach
    Passed Coach Course

  • Adults, Kids, Teenagers

  • Acrobatic, Artistic, Floor Exercise, Balance Beam, Uneven Bars, Vault

  • Back Handspring, Backflip, Balance, Cartwheel, Front handspring, Frontflip, Layout, Pike, Roll, Salto, Straddle, Tumbling, Dismount, Kip, Mount, Stick

Credentials

  • Northern Kentucky University (KY)

  • 25 years

  • Qualified Private Coach
    Passed Coach Course

Services

  • Adults, Kids, Teenagers

  • Acrobatic, Artistic, Floor Exercise, Balance Beam, Uneven Bars, Vault

  • Back Handspring, Backflip, Balance, Cartwheel, Front handspring, Frontflip, Layout, Pike, Roll, Salto, Straddle, Tumbling, Dismount, Kip, Mount, Stick

More About Coach April

I have been coaching gymnastics for 20+ years in the Midwest, West and Southwest. I am very passionate about gymnastics, dance, fitness, teaching students and living a healthy lifestyle. I have coached and trained gymnasts, dancers and cheerleaders ranging in ages 3-18, from preschool, developmental, and recreational level through compulsory and optional competitive levels. I have started my own programs in dance studios and coached preschool, developmental, recreational and competitive gymnastics. I owned a mobile gymnastics and tumbling school in Phoenix, where I was the tumbling coach for 5 high school varsity cheerleading squads, where the focus was on tumbling, strength and conditioning and jump perfection. An opportunity to move to Madison, Wisconsin in 2006, led me to open my gymnastics school, Capital Gymnastics Academy. I ran the gym for 8 years, coaching all levels and developing many state champions. In 2014, I merged my gymnastics school with another local gym so I could pursue other passions and opportunities. I spent about a year coaching gymnasts and dancers in Phoenix, AZ. My experiences have given me so many amazing opportunities to travel, perform, compete, dance, teach and help students follow their dreams. I am very excited to be living back in my favorite city, Madison, WI, and I am excited to share my knowledge and experience to help students reach their unlimited potential.

Dance Minor, Northern Kentucky University
Competitive gymnast from age 8-13, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana
Freshman, JV and Varsity Cheerleader
Dancer and performer, high school and college
Northern Kentucky University Dance Troupe, 4 years
Dancer/Performer in musicals in Cincinnati, OH and Boulder, CO
Circus acrobat and hand balancer in Los Angeles
USAG Safety Certified
USAG Safety and Risk Management Certification
Annual Professional Development at Gymnastics Congresses
CPR and First Aid Certified

We will discuss your individual goals, look at your current level, and develop an appropriate plan suited for you. The lesson plan will vary by athlete, depending on individual needs.

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Client Reviews

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Thank you so much. After one session Emma has so much more confidence than we thought she could have before school gymnastics starts. Thanks!!!!

My daughter had her first session today with Coach April, and she is already feeling more comfortable with some of her weakest skills.

Coach April is a great coach!. I had my first session and I already feel like a whole new athlete, it was really fun and her training and techniques are definitely top notch!. I would surely recommend Coach April to anyone would like to learn gymnastics.

April was amazing. My daughter is a super shy gymnast who needs work on her confidence and technique. She honestly hasn't stopped talking about how much she learned in one session. She is smiling! She is showing me her improved skills. I would highly recommend April.

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Coach April is a very knowledgeable, thorough coach who can assist my daughter and her unique set of needs. Even after one session, my daughter feels more confident in her skills.

Worth every penny! After an elbow injury our daughter has been a little hesitant to try a few basic skills (back handsprings!). Having a one-on-one lesson with April was the best decision we could have made. Not only was she doing skills she had not done in 4 months, April made her feel comfortable and ready to try more and more skills in that one hour session than she had done in the past month since getting cleared for full practices. Thank you again, April!! We'll definitely be scheduling more sessions.

Coach April is an excellent gymnastics coach! My 7 year old daughter was a bit hesitant to have a private lesson with a coach she had never met before and I honestly didn't quite know what to expect either. Immediately upon meeting April, our doubts vanished. April has a great personality, years of experience and really knows her stuff! My daughter sensed this as well and together they worked hard to tighten up her routines and get her ready for the upcoming State meet. If you have a daughter who loves gymnastics, I would definitely recommend booking a lesson with April!

April is enthusiastic about fitness and infuses her sessions with energy, encouragement, and entertainment. She is very knowledgeable about exercise, nutrition, and health which enables her to address all aspects of fitness. I have worked with other fitness coaches, and can honestly say that April is excellent. I strongly encourage you to schedule a session with April and find out for yourself what she can help you accomplish.

April Namio was my daughter’s gymnastics coach from the time she was 4 until she turned 7 years old from pre-team to Level 5. April’s conditioning program was an excellent foundation for her. She was trained well and developed significant strength and flexibility under April’s guidance. My daughter was able to utilize her strength and flexibility that she gained at Capital Gymnastics to integrate into a more intensive training program which has assisted her to go on to the USAG TOPS program at her new gym. We are so grateful and proud to have been able to work with April since the beginning. It has made my daughter’s transition into more intensive training program easier because of her strong foundation that was built when she was at Capital Gymnastics Academy. We are forever grateful for your knowledge and expertise in developing young gymnasts and helping them to realize their potential. Thank you again for all of your hard work with my daughter!
April's positive attitude and knowledge of proper tumbling technique is unsurpassed! My daughter is a competitive dancer and April's instruction has added to her success. Thank you April!
My name is Mike Welch, I am the owner and master instructor of Infinity Martial Arts in Middleton WI. For the last couple of years we have done some work with April Namio and her gymnastics gym in Madison. My students came to her facility and worked, hands on with her and her instructors. Our experience with April was wonderful. Her facility was very clean, professional and organized. Her instructors were also very professional and obviously well trained. My students only had about 6 total hours of training, but April’s instruction and staff were great. We saw excellent results from all of my students including the very beginners and the more advanced athletes. Anybody looking to advance their training as a martial artist, gymnast, dancer, parkour or fitness level would be fortunate to have April’s instruction. I would recommend her to anyone.
We worked with April for a little over 2 years when she was coaching team gymnastics. Her attention to detail helped our daughter improve her skills, routines and meet scores dramatically (from a gymnast who was rarely, if ever, on the podium, to one who became a 2013 WI state champion on two events!). She was tough as a coach, but we appreciated the thoroughness of her coaching and her focus in the gym. She was clear with her critiques and instruction and our daughter thrived while in April's gym. We would highly recommend April to anyone looking to take their gymnastics or dance skills to the next level.
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