Owner:  Becky Oppenheimer
Becky is a Professional Member of USA Gymnastics and AAU Gymnastics. Ms. Oppenheimer is on the USA Gymnastics State Board of Directors as the Level 7 & PO USA Representative. In addition, she is on the AAU State Board of Directors as the Optional Team Representative. Becky is a Nationally Rated Gymnastics Judge and a distinguished member of the NAWGJ. She has judged the NCAA Regional & National Championships and the AAU National Championships as well as many State Championships and local competitions. Becky is also a former President of the Georgia Gymnastics Coaches Association and was a competitive gymnast. As an athlete she was an All-Around Georgia State Champion and member of the University of Georgia gymnastics team. Becky is a certified PDP I & II, CPR trained and has coached many Georgia State Champions, Regional Qualifiers, Regional Champions, National Qualifiers and National Champions.

 

Receptionist:  Susan Childers
Susan Childers was born in Fort Worth, Texas and moved to Georgia when she was 4 years old. She graduated from Sprayberry High School. She has worked for Georgia All-Star Gymnastics since 1997 as the receptionist, and if you want to know what is going on in the gym, just ask Susan. She has three children, two of whom have taken gymnastics at GASG, worked in summer camp and taught classes. She enjoys reading, shopping and hanging out with her family.

Team Coaches:

Sennie Clark
Sennie was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She started competing at Chattooga Gymnastics Academy and competed as a Class 1 gymnast coached by Doug McAvinn.  Sennie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Georgia Gymdogs Gymnastics Team.  Sennie has been coaching for over 20 years and has coached many athletes to State, Regional and National championship titles.  Sennie also has led her athletes to college scholarships to schools such as UGA, LSU, Stanford and Auburn.  In her free time Sennie enjoys working on her house and watching college football. Sennie coaches our optional team and also works with our compulsory teams.  Her favorite events to coach are bars and beam. Sennie has two children; Kristin who also coaches at Georgia All-Stars and Kayleigh who is on our Hopes team training level 7.

 

Tish Negron
Tish competed as a Class 1 gymnast from 1980-1987. She attended the University of Denver on a full athletic scholarship from1987-1988. Tish retired from gymnastics after freshman year due to injury.  From that point she began coaching at Gwinnett Gymnastics Center while attending Kennesaw State University. Tish graduated from Kennesaw honors and a degree in Exercise Science.  In 1998 Tish received the Coach of the Year award while working at Gwinnett. From 1999-2000 Tish worked with Jay Clark coaching optionals at Classic City Gymnastics and moved to Georgia All-Stars in 2000.  Throughout her coaching career she has trained numerous State, Regional and National champions.  Tish is married and has two children; Cooper (age 4) and Jasmine (age 6) who is currently on our USA 4 team.  Tish coaches Optionals and her favorite event to coach is Vault.

 

Annette Mitchell
Annette was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 29. Annette was a member of the Swedish National Team and competed at many international competitions with the team.  Annette also competed in the World Championships in Fort Worth, Texas.  Annette enjoys working out and staying fit in her free time.  She has been coaching for over 20 years and has accumulated a long list of state and national athletes not only in the JO Program but in the USAG TOPS program.  Annette has had many young athletes qualify and compete on the TOPs National Team.  Annette works with our compulsory teams, as well as our Hopes and TOPs teams.  Her favorite event to coach is bars.

 

Jorgen Falk
Jorgen was born in a small city in Sweden and grew up doing “every sport there is”, mainly soccer. After a very short time as a gymnast, he became a coach of a small gymnastics program at the age of 14. After several years, he progressed and eventually moved to Stockholm to coach at one of the most successive clubs in Sweden.  Jorgen has trained numerous gymnasts that have been Swedish Champions at all three levels, youth, junior and senior. He has also trained numerous gymnasts that have competed on the international scene such as Nordic Championships, European Youth Olympics, European Championships (juniors and seniors), World Championships and the Olympics.  Jorgen was a National Team Staff member in Sweden for 15 years.  Jorgen moved to Georgia All-Stars in 2009 to join the coaching staff and work with the gymnasts who desire to train in hopes of reaching the elite level in USA Gymnastics.

Jason Beliveau
Jason was born in San Francisco, California and first began coaching in 2002 at Gym City Gymnastics in Peachtree City, Georgia.  He initially thought coaching was going to be a fun summertime job before he went off to college, but then realized that coaching gymnastics was the path for him.  Soon afterwards, Jason became Head Coach of the girls team Levels 4 and 5 and one of his gymnasts scored a perfect 10.0 on Vault.  During his time at Gym City, he attended many Regional Congresses and also went to National Congress in 2003 and 2004.  Many of the techniques he learned over the years came from former Junior Elite gymnast Brad McLaren, and Master Clinicians Gary Goodson and Dr. Vladimir Zaglada.  In 2007 Jason moved to Roswell, Georgia and began coaching at Roswell Gymnastics.  While there, he coached Level's 5-10 on Bars.  At Roswell Jason coached 10 State Champions on Bars (with many top 3 finishes at State and Regional's), 2 State Champions on Vault and a Regional Champion on Vault.  Jason was also one of the coaches for the Level 6 Team to win Back-to-Back State Championships.  In the 2009-2010 season, Jason was voted as Roswell Gymnastics Coach of the Year.  Jason’s favorite event to coach is bars. For Jason, the best part of being a coach to Jason  is to watch the development of the kids not only as gymnasts, but also as people.  He believes that the relationships that are built through the sport last a lifetime.

 

Kristin Clark
Kristin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and has been a part of the Georgia All-Star family since the day we opened, first as a gymnast and now as a coach.  She competed through level 10 and throughout her career as a gymnast earned 13 State Championship titles. She also qualified to regionals at levels 8, 9 and 10 and was a member of the AAU National team several times.  Kristin coached at Georgia Elite Gymnastics while earning her Economics degree at the University of Georgia and then returned to her home gym to coach.  In her free time Kristin enjoys hanging out with her sister Kayleigh and going to UGA football games.  Kristin works with our compulsory teams as well as the Tiny TOPs team.  She choreographs many of our optional floor routines and her favorite event to coach is beam.

Traci Lanford
Traci Lanford is from Atlanta, Georgia. Her gymnastics career began at Atlanta School of Gymnastics where she was coached by Tom Cook for many years. After a series of injuries in the gym, she began springboard and platform diving. She earned a full athletic scholarship to Georgia State University, where she studied public relations. She qualified for the Olympic Trials and NCAA Nationals in diving. After college she began working as a stunt person in Los Angeles. She started coaching at Ga. All-Stars in 1998 and loved it from the start. Traci is married to Buck Lanford, a FOX5 head morning news anchor. They live in Atlanta with their three children Will, Noah and Olivia who is on our AAU 3 team. Traci currently coaches the Twinklers pre-team.

 

Class Instructors:

Jordin Beamon
Jordin was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Jordin started gymnastics at the age of five and attended classes regularly at GA All-stars.  After a few years of gymnastics, her interest turned to dance. Jordin was an active member of Dancentre South’s Company, where she competed in jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, hip-hop, pointe, and acrobatics.  Jordin participated in Jazz On Tap, Ballet Fest, The Nutcracker, and performed at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  Jordin is now in her second year of college and she plans to get her degree in physical therapy.  Jordin enjoys her job and loves working with kids. Jordins favorite event to coach is floor.

Lauren Armstrong
Bio coming soon...

 

Lindsey Macmillan
Bio coming soon...

 

 

*All of our class and team coaches are USAG Professional Members and are safety certified through USA Gymnastics. In addition, our entire staff is certified in CPR and emergency response.