The coaches behind every flip.
Highly qualified, passionate people dedicated to fostering a positive and supportive training environment. Tap a play button to hear from them directly.
Over 30 professional coaches and assistants.
From a small room at Lincoln Square to a 4th facility at 3304 Winchester Drive, Leah’s now enrolls over 900 students and employs over 30 professional coaches and assistants. Our highly motivated staff & coaches are trained gymnastics professionals with experience, education & certifications.
Our goal with kids is to maintain a connection with their hearts while teaching skills, boundaries, and behavior. If we lose their heart during the process, nothing else will matter. The floor is staffed program by program, so the team below is grouped the way the gym runs — each group beside the classes it coaches.
Ownership & Direction
Leah began her 1st gymnastics school as a young mother in 1982 and started Leah’s Gymnastics & Cheerleading, Inc. in 1996; she is still very much involved and active daily in the business. Our owners and directors are the people who keep four facilities, over 900 enrollments and the weekly schedule running. Read our story.
Leah Hudspeth
Owner
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Barry Hudspeth
Owner
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Mallory Cox
Director of Gym 2 & Senior Coach
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Megan Broadway
Director of Operations
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Our Teams compete at local, state and regional levels, following the USA Gymnastics Jr. Olympic and Xcel Programs, with gymnasts ranging in age 5 – 18 and competing on their own individual level. These coaches run that program, which strives to promote good work ethic and high self-esteem through positive re-enforcement. See Team Gymnastics.
Heaven Cox
Competitive Gymnastics Co-Director
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Laci Spradlin
Competitive Gymnastics Director
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Amy Powell
Competitive Gymnastics Coach
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All Star Cheerleading is a very popular and growing competitive sport, and athletes who participate do not cheer for a team, they ARE the team. These coaches create the competition routines — tumbling, stunts, jumps, dance, and other skills set to music — for our All Star and All Star Prep squads. See Cheer Storm Elite.
Bailey Dougherty
Cheer Storm Elite All-Star Cheer Director
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Jessica Dougherty
All-Star Communications Director & Coach
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Faith Dougherty
Cheer Storm Elite All-Star Cheer Coach
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Our individual girls program is designed to teach students brand new gymnasts through intermediate gymnasts, across 4 levels that students progress through at their own pace on vault, bars, beam, floor and Tumbl Trak™. Tumbling classes are the foundation of gymnastics and cheerleading, and these coaches take students from Beginner Tumble through Elite Tumbling. See Recreational Gymnastics or Tumbling.
Andrea Oetken
Recreational Coach
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Toby Barantine
Tumbling Coach
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Macy Handwork
Recreational and Competitive Team Coach
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Brecca Holloway
Senior Coach
Robin Dorsey
Recreational Tumbling and Gymnastics Coach
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Our Tiny Tots Gym is designed specifically with the little ones in mind, walkers to 5 years old, from Playful Parenting with a parent on the floor through to Cheer-nastics for girls 3–6. The emotional well-being and safety of every child comes first. See Tiny Tots.
Guest Services
Accounts, enrollment and hospitality: the people you hear from between sessions and who greet you when you walk in. Sign up online in the parent portal (opens in a new tab), or give us a call and we’ll help you pick the right fit.
Not sure which group your child would start with? Give us a call at (501) 776-3547 and we’ll help you pick the right fit.
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