CAMP DIRECTOR
Whitney Beck
Competitive Director & Girls Team Head Coach
American Gold Gymnastics
VISITING STAFF
Scott Bauman
Head Coach, Southern Utah University
Head coach Scott Bauman will celebrate his 27th year at the helm of the SUU gymnastics program in 2018, setting him apart as the longest tenured coach in all of Thunderbird athletics. Over that time, Bauman has overseen the ascent of his team from a relatively unknown entity to one which has ingrained a reputation as one of the nation’s established and respected programs. SUU has had four consecutive NCAA Regional appearances, a three-time All-American in Elise Wheeler, and the 2010 Western Athletic Conference Championship trophy.
Under Bauman’s guidance, the team has jumped its all-around average from 182.16 in 1991 (the year before he came) to a school-record 195.181 in 2010.
Bauman has earned several coaching honors throughout the years, including the 1993 Midwest Region Coach of the Year, 2010 WAC Coach of the Year, and the North Central Region Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2010.
Jamie Wysong
Assistant Coach, Southern Utah University
Jamie Wysong joined the Thunderbird coaching staff full-time for the 2016 season after two seasons as the Director of Gymnastics Operations for the Flippin’ Birds. This is Wysong’s first NCAA coaching job. Before coming to Cedar City, Wysong was a coach at All-American Gymnastics in Lindon, Utah.
SUU head coach Scott Bauman has the utmost trust and respect for Wysong. “It’s a huge opportunity,” Wysong said. “Coach Bauman has put a lot of trust in me, and being with the program prior to being appointed assistant coach will make it an easier transition.”
“Jamie is a very young, very good technical coach,” Bauman said.
At the 2018 NCAA Regional Championship, SUU earned a team score of 194.625.
Doug Miller
Coach, Illinois Gymnastics Institute
Doug has been coaching gymnastics since the age of 14, private club since 1989. Starting with coaching boys through the elite level for 8 years, he switched to girls in 1996.
Miller has been blessed to work with and learn from some of the best coaches in the country including, but not limited to: Neil Resnick, Tammy Biggs, Tom Forester, Todd Gardiner, Mary Lee Tracey, Enrique Tribiano, Valeri Liukin, and Jeff Wood… among many others.
Doug assisted in the development and coaching of two gold medal Olympians, as well of a third athlete who fell just short making an Olympic team. While coaching at IGI, Doug was fortunate enough to be on the floor at the 2004 Olympic Trials to help spot during training, then watched it live. Miller served as one of the directors at Lake Owen camp for 8+ years, and now is a special guest coach and clinician at Woodward Camp in Pennsylvania. Miller has been a clinician at Region 5, Ohio State and Illinois State congresses for the past 10 years.
Miller says “I really find it humbling and rewarding to coach youths in this crazy sport and love the challenge each day brings. Learning and teaching everyday that God gives us, is truly a prize in life.”
Sienna Crouse
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
American Gold Gymnastics alumni Sienna Crouse will be a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the 2018-2019 season. In her junior year, Sienna Crouse was one of the most consistent competitors for the Huskers, competing primarily on vault and floor, earning first team All-American on floor, and second team All-American honors on vault, adding to her first-team All-America honors on vault she received in 2017. At NCAA Championships, she posted the highest vault score by any individual competitor with a 9.9625.
She earned Academic All-Big Ten for the second year. Crouse earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters of 2017-18, as well as being named a member of the 2018 Tom Osborne Citizenship Team.
A two-time J.O. National Qualifier and a nine-time regional qualifier, Crouse captured the regional bars title at the 2015 Region 4 Championships in Green Bay, Wis. At the 2015 J.O. National Championships, Crouse tied for sixth place on bars and finished 12th in the all-around. Crouse was a 2015 North Dakota state champion in the all-around and on vault, bars and beam. She took home the silver on bars at the 2014 J.O. Nationals.
Ali Berry
Assistant Coach, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Ali Berry is in her fourth season as an assistant coach with the UW-La Crosse gymnastics team in 2018-19, primarily coaching on the vault and floor exercise. She also serves as the Eagles’ recruiting coordinator. Berry was as a graduate assistant coach with the Eagles from 2015-17, working as an strength and conditioning coach in intercollegiate athletics.
Berry was a four-year letter winner at UW-La Crosse, earning three National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) All-America honors. She tied for fourth on the floor exercise at the 2014 national championships while finishing fourth on the event in 2015. Berry also earned All-America awards after finishing tied for 12th on the vault in 2014. She was a member of the Eagles’ national championship team in 2015.
James Letzring
Boys Team Director, Mini-Hops Gymnastics
Beth-Ann Cavanor
Coach, Gleason’s Gymnastic School
Casey Berry
Coach, Dickinson Gymnastics
DANCE STAFF
Alejandro Muller Dahlberg
Dancer, University of Arizona
AMERICAN GOLD GYMNASTICS STAFF
Whitney Beck, Team Coach
Greg Gulbranson, Team Coach
Melissa Wong, Team Coach
Lindsey Johnson, Team Coach
Paul Hummel, Team Coach
Amber Thompson, Team Coach
Christina Mittag, Team Coach
Alyssa Ritchie, Team Coach
Faith Sersland, Team Coach
Davis Beattie, Team Coach
Austin Heideman, Team Coach
ATHLETIC TRAINER
Brenda L. Potter, ATC, CKTP
Certified Athletic Trainer
Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner
Sanford Orthopedics/American Gold Gymnastics
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