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USAG Safety Certified
Joanne
Hodsden
Miss
Joanne has been studying gymnastics and
contortion since the age of 4. She competed
for several years with her performing
arts gymnastics team. She has won many
cash prizes and several overall top high
scores. Her acrobatic duet was entered
into Starpower National Talent Competitions'
"Battle of the Stars" where it was named
3rd overall National duet/trio out of
dozens of duets/trios. Miss Joanne was
able to compete all over the country with
her gymnastics team. She traveled to New
York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and as far
as even Las Vegas, Nevada! While Joanne
was in high school, she became involved
with her competitive diving team. She
was able to transfer her gymnastics training
onto the diving board and won various
high school championships. In all 4 years
of high school, Joanne only lost two diving
meets out of many, many meets! At the
High School diving level, Joanne placed
3rd in Sectionals and 6th in the state
of New Jersey! Joanne currently holds
a Lower Cape May Regional High School
diving record which has been unbroken
for over 4 years now. Miss Joanne's classes
are fun, energy packed and a great experience.
Miss Joanne's specialty is the trampoline!
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Dawn
Dougherty
Dawn began participating in gymnastics
at age 8 in the Philadelphia Recreation
Program. She began teaching by the age
of 13. She competed in the Philadelphia
Public School Program during her high
school years where her team placed second
in the league in 1993. That same year
Dawn was nominated First Team All Public.
She went on to manage the Temple Men's
Gymnastic Program (a division I school)
for her first 3 years of college. She
participated in, and later on helped coordinate,
a summer gymnastics program for inner
city youth at Temple. More recently, Miss
Dawn has spent a season teaching beginner
tumbling at Woodstown Gymnastics. The
last 5 years Dawn has spent with the Art
of Gymnastics & Cheer - teaching tot,
beginner, and intermediate gymnastics.
Dawn is Safety Certified and an active
member of the USAG. Miss Dawn also
teaches the equipment training. Her
student, Emilie was 3rd overall on the
floor exercise, 8th overall on the balance
beam and 11th overall All Around at the
New Jersey State Championships of USAIGC.
Dawn also has earned her KAT (Kinder
Accreditation Teacher Certificate, a
certificate exclusively for Pre-School
Gymnastics Teaching). Miss Dawn also
has earned a certification in
MELPD (Movement Education Lesson Plan
Development)
Ashley Unruh
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Ashley Unruh has been involved
in gymnastics, dance and cheerleading for several
years. Her teams have won numerous awards.
She has placed in the top 5 at American Cheer &
Dance Cheerleading championships the past two
years. Ashley has excellent communication
skills with children and works diligently with each
and everyone of them. Miss Ashley is
currently a coach for the Fantasy All Star "Minis"
Level 2 team. She is an all around
cheerleader and is proficient in advanced
tumbling, stunting, jumps and dance. Ashley
is certified in cheerleading through the National
Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA). Ashley brings amazing energy
to her classes and is now teaching the pee-wee
cheer class at Art of Gymnastics & Cheer.
For more information on Miss Ashley's classes,
please contact our facility.
Joyce
Kimmerle
Joyce
teaches our advanced pre-school gymnastics
classes. Joyce studied gymnastics for
many years. Her daughter Morgan, has been
on the competition team here at Art of
Gymnastics & Cheer since the age of 6.
Joyce volunteers her time
at the Art of Gymnastics and Cheer and
has been doing so since its opening 5 years ago.
"Miss Joyce" is also the booster team
fundraiser organizer as well as the
competition team secretary. Besides
her busy gymnastics schedule, Miss Joyce
works full time as a medical receptionist.
A very special note about Miss Joyce:
In the past 5 years, more than 75% of our
competition team students were enrolled in
Miss Joyce's classes first. She teaches
techniques which are the stepping stones
for our pre-team and competition teams!
Jamie Mullen
Jamie
has recently joined our staff after being involved in
competitive gymnastics at an early age.
Jamie was also
a competitive cheerleader. Jamie
is very energetic and encourages results
from every student she teaches at our facility.
She is a dedicated,
serious, professional coach looking to
enhance the gymnastics ability of all
of her students!
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Kathy Bakley
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Kathy Bakley is now in
her second year of teaching the Parent &
Tot Class. Her class has been filled since
she began teaching! Miss Kathy now
also assistant coaches the mini team! After several
years on the sidelines watching her
daughter Melissa, we noticed that Kathy
had an eye for the sport. She was able to
access the children's skills and correct
errors that were being made. So, she
decided to become USAG safety certified.
Since much of her time was spent at the
gym, she figured she would put her new
found skills to good use. She has
excellent communication skills and her
friendly personality makes her an asset to
our facility. Kathy also studied
gymnastics in her younger years under the
direction of Miss Gerri Barber, who
ironically also taught several of our
staff members. One funny side note: Miss
Kathy once starred in a production of
"ALBUQUERQUE TURKEY"!
Amanda-Lyn
Gangloff
 Miss
Amanda has been involved with Art of Gymnastics
and Cheer since she was in grade school.
She began training in gymnastics and dance
when she was 10 years old taking regular
classes then she was asked to join the
competition performing arts gymnastics
team.
Amanda competed and traveled all over
the country from New York to Las Vegas
with her competition gymnastics team.
Miss Amanda was a part of her gymnastics
competition team's very first pom-pon
routine which won several Regional & National
high score championships!
Upon entering Wildwood Catholic High School,
Miss Amanda shifted her talents to the
high school's varsity competition cheerleading
team. While in high school, Amanda maintained
honors, cheered, and assisted gymnastics
at our facility until she graduated in
2003.
Miss Amanda now attends Richard Stockton
College of New Jersey majoring in Psychology
and minoring in Education. Amanda is
pursuing her goal of becoming a
Kindergarten teacher. Besides teaching at
Art of Gymnastics and Cheer and going to
college, Amanda is now a special skills
teacher at Our Lady Star of the Sea School
in Cape may, NJ. Miss Amanda teaches
our pee-wee cheerleading class and
intermediate gymnastics classes. She
is also our full
time substitute instructor. Amanda
also teaches private lessons to those
students wanting that "extra edge" on
their gymnastics skills. She emphasizes
technique as well as having FUN! Amanda
quotes, "It makes me feel good knowing
that I taught a child something today."
For more information on Miss Amanda's
private lessons, please call our facility.
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