Leanne Jones (Director)

Gym Manager & Coach

Qualifications: Level 3 Women's, Level 2 Tumble, Level 2 Trampolining and Level 2 Pre-School

Competed at Regional Level in Artistic Gymnastics and International Level in TeamGym. Started coaching at 16 and has coached Womens, Mens. Pre-School, and Trampolining. Lives in Cardiff with her husband and 2 children. Leanne recently gave up work to concentrate on bringing up her children and developing the club ensuring it has a sound base for the future.

Sue Spry (Director)

Finance & Governance

Qualifications: Level 3 Women's. Level 2 Pre-School and Regional Womens Artistic Judge. Team Gym Club Judge, Men's club judge, Tumble club judge

Started gymnastics aged 11 after a local coach spotted her doing cartwheels on the school field and invited her to join his club! Moved into coaching at 18. Took a break to have a family but returned to coaching when her daughter started classes at the local leisure centre. Took another break recently but is ready and excited to be involved with this club. Married to husband Andrew, has 2 grown up children, 2 grandsons, 2 cats, and has recently given up her job to devote her energies to the club. In what little spare time she has, Sue attends ballroom and latin dance classes.

Vicki Evans (Director)

People, HR & Welfare

 

Brooke Powell

Head Coach of Women's Squad

Qualifications: Level 3 Women's and Level 2 Pre-School

Brooke started as a gymnasts with All Stars and represented Wales at tumbling competitions. She became a coach at 16 , coaching both recreational and competitive gymnasts and focused on our highest level competitive squad gaining her level 3 accreditation. She also works as a full time teacher in a secondary school.

Ellis Silezin

Head Teamgym Coach

Qualifications: Level 2 Women's, Level 1 Men's, Teamgym

Ellis joined us in 2023 to take over our Men's section. He helped develop our very successful Teamgym section and has transfered from being our head of Men's to head of Teamgym to focus on the expension of the program with squad gymnasts reaching British finals. He also enjoys still taking part in adult gymnastics sessions.

 

Josh Beard

Head of Tumble

Qualifications: Level 3 Tumbling

Josh is an ex tumbler and takes part in our adult class to keep his hand in! Many of his gymnasts have won medals at welsh and british tumbling competitions

 

Ashley Tierney

Men's Head Coach

Qualifications: Level 2 Mens

Ashley joined us in 2023 after coaching for many years men's artistic gymnastics. He has now taken over the Men's side of our gym to develop our boy's competitive section. He is also currently finishing a master in pharmaceutical engineering.

Anne-Claire Thomas

Head of Coach Development

Qualifications: Level 2 Women's and preschool. Club judge.

Anne-Claire started volunteering when we opened in 2016 as a parent and started coaching in 2020. She taught in primary schools for over 20 years before joining us full time to coach from our youngest members to squad gymnasts. She leads our young leaders from age 11 and our level 1 coaches in our recreational program to help them gain experience and qualifications through their coaching journey.

 

 

 Our Coaches

These coaches coach the recreational classes and tumble recreational classes,  along with helping out with various development squads.

Level 4

Rhiannon Griffiths (teamgym)

Level 3

Paige Sheen (Wag)

Emelly Wittich (teamgym)

Trish Rawlings (teamgym)

Level 2

Abbie Protheroe (Tumble)

Ashley Tierney (Mens)

Lauren Moyle (Tumble)

Holly Urwin

Leah James

Johanna Simic

Paige Richardson

Catrin Hoe

Lucy Young

Sophie Jones

Emily Stephens

 

 

 

Level 1 Assistant Coach

Evan Jones (tumble)

Maryna Shovkova

Bethan Hopkins (tumble)

Aaron Murray-Dickson

Eliza Davies

Harrison Powell

Chloe Wall

Rhianedd Jones

Taryn Opie

Brony Cook

Mia Owen

Dawid Bialy

Caitlin Lewis

Niamh Morgan

Hanna Krotava

Magi Martin

Lottie Freeman 

Mabel Smaller

Ellie James

Lexie Davies

Millie Long

Anya Duncan-Jones

Josie Taylor

Sophie Urwin

Sophie Silezin

Ella Payne

 

 

 

Sports Leaders & Young Leaders

​Our sports leaders hold a recognised qualification from Sports Leaders UK. This allows them to take responsibility for a small group of gymnasts independently. From this, many of our sports leaders go on to take their Level 1 coaching qualification in their chosen discipline such as artistic, tumbling or general gymnastics. Many of our sports leaders were either gymnasts themselves or are still training and competing. 

Our current Sports Leaders & young leaders are:

Olivia , Anita, Siena, Amelia, Lily and Carys and over 40 young people between 11-14 years old helping out in classes alongside coaches, many of who have gained their young leader certifications from Welsh Gymnastics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sue Spry (Director)

Treasurer,Secretary, & Coach

Qualifications: Level 3 Women's. Level 2 Pre-School and Regional Womens Artistic Judge. Team Gym Club Judge, Men's club judge, Tumble club judge

Started gymnastics aged 11 after a local coach spotted her doing cartwheels on the school field and invited her to join his club! Moved into coaching at 18. Took a break to have a family but returned to coaching when her daughter started classes at the local leisure centre. Took another break recently but is ready and excited to be involved with this club. Married to husband Andrew, has 2 grown up children, 2 grandsons, 2 cats, and has recently given up her job to devote her energies to the club. In what little spare time she has, Sue attends ballroom and latin dance classes.