Meet our Coaches and Staff!
Coach Lynette
Coach Lynette is one of the owners/founders of FlightSchool Gymnastics. She and her husband, Coach Phil, dreamed of creating a gymnastics atmosphere where children could learn that hard work not only leads to success but can be fun. Her son is a 2011 West Point graduate and gymnast, and she coached both her daughters who are now gymnastics coaches themselves.
Coach Lynette is USAG Safety certified, and holds both her U100 and National Level Coach certificate. She loves coaching gymnastics because she is able to see a child’s face light up when they accomplish a new skill. She finds it most rewarding when children work hard and overcome their fears to achieve their goals. For Coach Lynette, gymnastics teaches so much more than cartwheels, it helps kids grow into hard-working, successful adults. Coach Lynette is the head coach for Levels 5-10.
Coach Phil
Coach Phil is one of the owners/founders of FlightSchool Gymnastics. He started working with kids as a nanny when he was in high school and assisted his father with coaching soccer, eventually taking over from his dad as head coach. He fell in love with coaching gymnastics when he went to his local gym to help out, and he has not looked back since!
Coach Phil is USAG safety certified, completed his U100 USA gymnastics course of instruction, certified as a National Level coach, held the USAG Oregon State Chair for 3 years, and was the Oregon USAG TOPs manager for 8 years. He has attended, coached, hosted, or sponsored numerous international and national level camps and workshops.
The thing he loves most about coaching gymnastics is watching an athlete become confident with themselves and seeing them learn that hard work is important and leads to success! He loves seeing kids achieve more than they ever dreamed, from being able to do a good handstand to winning a medal at Nationals. Coach Phil teaches Home School PE, and is the head coach for Levels 5-10.
Coach/Ms. Stephanie
Ms. Stephanie has found a passion for teaching throughout her various roles as an educator. Ms. Stephanie has had 10 years of experience teaching and facilitating students of all ages. She began as a dance instructor in high school and continued teaching after graduating from University of Oregon with a BA in dance. While teaching she was a part of multiple semi-professional dance companies in the Portland metro area. In 2016, Ms. Stephanie moved to South Korea to teach English. There she found a love for teaching young minds in not only education but with nourishing positive life skills. Coming back to Oregon in 2018 Ms. Stephanie began working as a lead Pre-k teacher at a learning center, but decided to use her experience and skills to start a new preschool program. Ms. Stephanie is thrilled to run the Jungle Academy preschool program here at Flightschool Gymnastics.
Ms. Stephanie also works with the optional gymnasts, teaching them to dance and choreographing their floor routines.
Coach Jubi
Coach Jubi competed as a gymnast for 14 years, 9 of those years with FlightSchool. During that time, she was the Oregon State All-Around Champion 8 times; Regional Qualifier 10 times; Level 9 Regional Floor, Beam, and Bar Champion; Level 9 and 10 Western National Qualifier 3 times; Winner of the 2008 National Judges’ Cup; and holds more than 35 individual event State Championships. Coach Jubi is U100 and USAG Safety certified, as well as a USAG Pro Member. The thing she loves most about coaching gymnastics is she has the chance to share everything she knows about the sport and watch her girls improve and mature as athletes and people. The opportunity to act as a role model for these budding athletes is an honor and allows her to see them overcome their fears and accomplish their goals.
Coach Caitlin
Coach Caitlin has been coaching preschool age classes at FlightSchool since 2017. She learned about the joys of teaching kids when she was an English kindergarten teacher in South Korea in 2013 and has been working with kids ever since.
Coach Caitlin enjoys seeing the sense of accomplishment the kids get when they can do a new skill by themselves. She coaches the Level 2 competitive team. She also teaches BumbleBees, Crickets, and FireFlies classes and manages our online material.
Coach Justin
Coach Justin has been doing gymnastics since the age of 4. He went on to compete all around for West Point at the NCAA level. His favorite events were pommel horse, rings, and vault.
He assists our team coaches during train up day and motivates bigger, bolder skills with his enthusiasm. He works with the level fives and sixes, but will often assist with the higher level optional girls.
He enjoys bringing a different mentality and perspective to the gym, having spent his whole life in men's gymnastics. He believes the girls can tumble and vault just as big and powerful as the boys, they just need to believe it themselves.
Coach Trisha
Coach Trisha has been on our competition team and has a love of tumbling. She has coached boys and girls classes in the past and now teaches our DragonFlies and Gliders levels 1 & 2 and Chickadees.
Tonya
Tonya works in our office managing class signups, payments, and answering questions. Her daughter was previously on our competitive team. Tonya has extensive experience with our booster club and has helped coordinate meets in the past. She has worked in her church’s nursery and helps conduct homeschool clubs. She loves meeting the gymnastics families.