BodyBenders Performing Arts is owned by a female Veteran with a lifetime of acrobatic experience and education.
She began as a youth competitor in Acrobatics, Trampoline, and Power Tumbling. By the age of 16, she was famous for her super human strength. Her claim to fame was lifting and balancing men twice her size upside down in a handstand. As her reputation for athleticism soared, she turned every sport into an opportunity to flip around. She was known as the “Secret Weapon” of her soccer team, using a front handspring style throw-in to launch the ball into play. Word traveled fast, and within the year, she was recruited to the United States Naval Academy for competitive Gymnastics. Years of elite level physical, mental, and tactical training led to a career incorporating physical fitness, performing arts, education, science, health, and business.
She has served the Acrobatic community as a performer, choreographer, coach, consultant, and judge, for upwards of 40 years. She trained, coached, and competed at Hill’s Gymnastics, an Olympic Training facility and home of Olympic gymnastic sensation Dominique Dawes. She won numerous National titles in the Women’s Group and Women’s Pair events. She is an elite performer of high intensity Acrobatic cardio dance. While she has dabbled in Flying Trapeze, Aerial Silks, Hand Balancing, Juggling, Hooping, and Poi, her current passion is Wheel Gymnastics using a simple Cyr wheel.
