2019 Camp Staff

Meet Director

Whitney Beck
American Gold Gymnastics

Visiting Coaches

Jamie Wysong
Assistant Coach, Southern Utah University

Jamie Wysong enters her seventh year as a member of the Southern Utah University Women’s Gymnastics staff. After spending her first two years as the Director of Gymnastics Operations, Wysong was promoted to full-time assistant coach ahead of the 2016 season.

As a member of the SUU staff, Wysong has been an essential part of some of the most successful seasons in the program’s history. During the 2017 season, she coached former Thunderbird Stacie Webb to the first perfect 10.0 in program history on the balance beam. Wysong was also named Assistant Coach of the Year in the North Central Region by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches for Women following the conclusion of the 2017 season.

Wysong is also the program director and a head coach at the Southern Utah Gymnastics Academy and an assistant camp director at the SUU Gymnastics Camps. During her time as a member of the gymnastics staff, Wysong graduated Summa Cum Laude from Southern Utah University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Communications with an emphasis on Media Studies.

Seth Helland
Assistant Coach, University of Wisconsin-Stout

With a little encouragement from his sister, Seth Helland got his start coaching gymnastics.

Now, Helland steps up to the collegiate level as he joins the UW-Stout gymnastics team as a Blue Devil assistant coach beginning with the 2018-19 season. A baseball player throughout high school and into his college years, Helland was encouraged by his sister, Tessa, to help out coaching and spotting with the Brainerd High School team.

“I got involved when I was 18 (years-old) just helping the high school team out as a spotter,” Helland said. “I was not a gymnast. I played baseball my whole life and into college. My sister asked me to try out coaching and help with spotting and six years later I was the head coach (at Brainerd High School.)”

Helland has coached Level 9 and 10 gymnasts at TAGS Gymnastics and Legacy Gymnastics in Minnesota. He started his coaching career in Brainerd, Minn., High School, where he was an assistant coach for six seasons and the high school head coach for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.

“Seth brings a great energy and passion to the gym,” said Blue Devil head coach Becky Beaulieu. “He is a phenomenal technician and spotter.” Helland was able to gain some familiarity with UW-Stout and the UW-Stout gymnastics program this summer, working the Blue Devils’ summer gymnastics camp in June.”I hope to build strong and long lasting relationships with all of the student-athletes on the team and hope I can give them many tools to help them succeed,” Helland said.

Christopher Muras
Volunteer Assistant Coach, University of Minnesota

My name is Chris Muras. I have been coaching gymnastics for just over ten years now. I was the head coach of East Ridge High School from 2014-2017. I helped coach the team to three consecutive section titles, along with three state appearances. In my final year we got third in state and two of my athletes went 1st and 2nd in the All-Around. I currently coach at Flips Gymnastics where I coach the optional and elite athletes. Most recently I have been the volunteer Assistant Coach at the University of Minnesota for the last two years. I’m looking forward to working with the athletes here at camp.

Beth-Ann Cavanor
Gleason’s Gymnastics

Alan Ponto
Just Jymnastics

Doug Miller
Gym World

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.

Melinda Cerkoney
Northfield Gymanstics Club

Tati D’Tayo
Northfield Gymnastics Club

Sienna Crouse
University of Nebraska

Sienna Crouse has been one of the most dominant competitors in the all-around. In 2019, she was one of five gymnasts in the country to have set highs on all four events of 9.95 or higher, with her best events coming at uneven bars and floor exercise.

She has earned 15 event titles this season, including four meets this season where she took home multiple event titles. Sienna has set all new career highs this season except on vault. On uneven bars she set a career high of 9.975 at the Masters Classic on March 16, on balance beam and floor exercise she set career highs of 9.95 on both events with the balance beam career high coming against Southern Utah on March 2 and on floor exercise, she hit the mark three times this season with the most recent being at the Masters Classic as well. She also set her all-around career high at the masters classic as well with a score of 39.700, tying the eighth highest all-around score in Nebraska history.

She competed in the NCAA Championships as an individual competitor for the Huskers where she earned Second Team All-American honors on balance beam and in the all-around adding to her second team vault All-American honors she earned last season.

This season, she was named preseason Big Ten Gymnast to Watch, earned First Team All-Big Ten for the second time in her career, along with being named to the Big Ten All-Championship team and was name Big Ten Gymnast of the Week the week of March 19 after her performance at the Masters Classic where she earned three event titles in that meet.

Outside of the gym, she has earned Academic All-Big Ten for the third time in her career, as well as being named to the Nebraska Scholar Athlete Honor Roll every semester she has attended Nebraska and named to the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team for the fourth straight year.

James Letzring
Mini-Hops Gymnastics

Dance Staff

Alejandro Muller-Dahlberg
Dancer, University of Arizona

Athletic Training

Brenda Potter, ATC, CKTP
Certified Athletic Trainer
Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner
Sanford Orthopedics/American Gold Gymnastics