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The
Art of Gymnastics and Cheer
Directors - Diane Buscham
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Diane
was born and raised in Vineland, NJ and
graduated from Sacred Heart High School.
She is married to Paul DiFilippo and has
two sons, two granddaughters, a grandson and two step
sons.
Diane
has been in the "people" business all
her life and has always been excited about
a new "challenge." She successfully owned
and operated a motel in North Wildwood
for 16 years. She and her husband were
instrumental in establishing the first
"Bed and Breakfast" in the Wildwoods in
1985 which they owned and operated for
15 years. She taught many adult evening
classes throughout New Jersey on the topic
"How to Open a Bed and Breakfast."
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Diane
served on the Board of Directors of the
Greater Wildwood Chamber of Commerce for
20 years and was elected as the Chamber's
first woman President in 1985 and served
two terms. She was also a member of the
Cape May County Economic Development Commission,
served on the Zoning Board of Adjustment
for the city of North Wildwood and was
elected to the North Wildwood City Council
in 1996.
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Diane's son,
Jeffrey was involved in the field
of performing arts for several years,
so going on auditions and competitions
was a part of her life. Which is
how she became involved with Art of
Gymnastics & Cheer. Diane and her
husband, Paul are currently co-owners of
Re/Max Realty in N. Wildwood.
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The Art of Gymnastics & Cheer Artistic
Director
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Jeffrey M. Buscham
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Jeffrey
is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State
University. While at PSU, Jeffrey
Majored in Communications/Marketing and
minored in Exercise & Sports Science.
Jeffrey has been coaching gymnastics since
his days in college.
Today, Jeffrey's students have been on
Broadway, are currently in college cheer
programs, college dance teams, or are
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Jeffrey works
solely with the competition dance,
gymnastics and cheerleading teams at
the facility. Jeffrey's students have won
dozens of Local, Regional and National
Dance, Gymnastics, Tumbling & Cheerleading
Titles. To date, Jeffrey has won
over 40 Regional &
National Choreography awards!
He is certified by some of the top dance
and cheerleading
safety certification programs in the
country.
Together with his mom,
Diane, their facility was
named "2007 Top Acrobatic Studio"
at the National Acrobatic Championships of
The United States Tournament of Dance!!
In 2008, Jeffrey's students had nine routines
place into the 2008 National Battle of the
Stars at the Starpower National
Championship where 6 out of nine placed in
the top three highest scoring routines!
Jeffrey also won the 2008 Starpower
National Choreography Award as well as his
students won the 2008 most Entertaining
Act at the 2008 Starpower National
Championships! Most recently,
Jeffrey's students won Miss Acrobat of the
United States and junior Mr. Acrobat of
the United States at the United States
Tournament of Dance's National Dance
Championships! Also, Jeffrey had 7
students (out of only 14) chosen to be
members of the 2009-2010 United States
Acrobatic Team! In addition, his routine
"Wicked Gravity" was chosen by the Vice
President of Madison Square Garden in New
York City as the most entertaining routine
of 2009! His students performed
LIVE at a professional basketball game at
"the Garden" in September! They
received RAVE revues from this
performance! Jeffrey
was the recipient of the National 2009
Senior Choreography award for his action
packed acrobatic/gymnastics routine: "Vengeance of
the Pirates!"
Lastly, one of Jeffrey's students was chosen to be a
member of the co-ed cheerleading team for
Wilmington College. This
student received a collegiate athletic
scholarship for cheerleading based on his
tumbling skills taught by Jeff. Also, a
former contortion student of Jeffrey's made it to the semi-final rounds
of last year's "America's Got
Talent"!
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Art
of Gymnastics and Cheer
1054 ROUTE 47 SOUTH
RIO GRANDE, NEW JERSEY
Phone: (609) 886-7200
Fax: (609) 522-8098
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