Staff | BIG Gymnastics

Kara Reid

Kara has been working at BIG since September of 2009, but has been around the sport of gymnastics since the age of five and has a great deal of coaching experience.

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Mike Hauser

Coach Mikey, as he is known in the gym, coaches everything from recreational classes to our Junior Olympic team. Mike has experience coaching many children activities and flourishes in a

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Lauren Mapes

Coach Lauren has worked at BIG since 2007. Lauren is our office manager and in charge of all promotional and marketing programs at BIG. She is the Meet Director for

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Steph Young

Coach Steph has a great wealth of knowledge that she brings to both our recreational and Xcel programs with over 11 years of coaching experience. She was a former gymnast

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Coach Leah started gymnastics at the age of 3 and continued for 17 years! She continued her gymnastics career competing All-Around for the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Oshkosh before eventually retiring. Coach

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Skye Lyons

Coach Skye started gymnastics at the age of 4 years and reached Level 10 at the age of 14 years! She spent most of her gymnastics years at BIG! We are

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Melanie Mesick

Coach Melanie has been involved in the gymnastics world since the age of four. She competed for the Lyons Township High School Gymnastics team for four years and has

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Nora Coonrod

Coach Nora started gymnastics at the age of 4 and competed for 7 years! After retiring from gymnastics, she took up the sport of track and field where she competed in

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Shannon Koridek

Coach Shannon started her gymnastics career as a young child and continued on with that career into high school, where she also competed as a Varsity diver for 4 years.

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Lia Cockerill

Coach Lia started her gymnastics career at the age of three and began competing at age six! She spent her last two seasons competing for BIG as a Level 9

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