Gymnastics

Robin has been an avid enthusiast of gymnastics since her days as a competitive gymnast. She began coaching at 15 riding to meets with the athletes’ parents – oh, the good ole days! Gymnastics is The Superior Sport and has evolved to a level of high standards and a drive for shared safety and expertise. 

The diversity of her background brings rich ideals and a unique perspective to her delivery of information. You may be wondering what experiences has created Robin, to highlight a few... She has coached in Illinois, Florida, Texas, and New Mexico. Why did she move so much? She likes change which yields growth! She has never owned a program because it ties her down.

She has a sense of adventure and believes all challenges are just and opportunity to create a solution! If the system is not working, FIX IT! She grew up in Illinois and realized she hates cold weather. The fix it attitude resulted in packing up and moving to Florida. With no job and no place to live, gymnastics enabled her to land a job and sublet the leaving coach’s apartment. This deep-rooted and lived belief generates a vision of seeing the big picture but addressing the details to generate change. 

Her tool box has been filled through honing skills in management, recreational / competitive coaching, high school gymnastics, after school programs, camps, Mom’s day out, preschool classes, special needs, curriculum development, and program consulting. 

Her expertise is in the areas of brain-based learning, movement education, and social emotional aptitude presented through practical solutions that can be easily implemented to see results using dynamic professional development founded in research-based techniques. Her desire is to empower coaches, instructors, and educators to understand personal and student learning processes key to problem solving student needs and solutions.  

Robin has co-authored 3 USAG Curriculums, and presented at National and State Congresses for more than 2 decades. She has managed multiple locations, and programs.

She has the ability to tailor training to meet audience needs, intertwine child development understanding into training and a gift to keep it FUN!

Child Development

Robin has been drawn to helping adults and children with special needs in recreation programs, camping, Special Olympics, and gymnastics.  Robin worked as a public school special education teacher for 10 years. Her years as a special education teacher sharpened her abilities to meet the needs of diverse learners both children and adults accentuating professional development delivery model. While living in California she conducted evaluations for children ages 0-3 with developmental delays for early intervention services (ECI) and provided direct services to children with special needs.  

She was the Executive Director of a non-profit that provided pediatric therapy in physical, occupational, speech, and aquatic therapy. The Center provided Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA Therapy for children with autism), TEA non-public day school, and an inclusive preschool. Robin became skilled in grant writing and under her direction with grant funding the Center provide developmental screenings, tutoring, and autism assessment.

Education

Southern Illinois University: Bachelor of Science, School of Education Therapeutic Recreation

University of Texas PA: MS in Kinesiology

Creighton University: Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Educational Leadership. Dissertation: Investigating social emotional development among diverse socio-economic status YMCA preschool students.

2019-2020 LEND Fellow: California Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (CA-LEND) Training Program, LA Children’s Hospital, University of Southern California.

Her expertise is in the areas of brain-based learning, movement education, and social emotional aptitude presented through practical solutions that can be easily implemented to see results using dynamic professional development founded in research-based techniques. Her desire is to empower coaches, instructors, and educators to understand personal and student learning processes key to problem solving student needs and solutions.  

Robin is married to a really cool dude named Kevin and they have produced two wonderful children, Scarlett and Indigo.