staff

Tanya joined glitz at the beginning of 2022. We are lucky enough to have Tanya here twice a week coaching our lovely kinder gym kids. If you’re wondering where Tanya is the rest of the week, she is busy being a Kinder Educator.

Tanya loves working here at Glitz and is currently studying her Intermediate Kinder gym course. In Tanya’s spare time she loves collecting Lego, so if you ever want to talk about Lego, Tanya is all ears. 

Kate began at Glitz as just a Glitz mum to her two boys, but slowly and surely fell in love with coaching. Kate is one of the many Party Team Leaders we have here at Glitz. Kate takes great pride in making sure your child’s birthday party is the best one ever. Kate also works with our other coaches in our kinder gym program. Kate has been working towards her kinder gym qualifications and is first aid certified. Kate loves a chat, so make sure you say hello when you see her. Kate also has stepped up in taking many in school programs driving our vans around to different schools and teaching gymnastics to all children with or without gymnastics knowledge.  

Elise is one of our lovely kinder gym coaches and has been coaching for the last 14 years. Before this she was also experienced in mens gymnastics before taking on the role within kinder gym program.
Elise is also qualified in ABA therapy and is always willing to do private lessons for the children that may that may need a one on one approach.
She is an experienced member of the Glitz family, so be sure to say hello the next time you see her around the gym!

Katie is another coach who has only been here for a year but it does not show, she is always smiling and ready to get her kids up and active and learning. Her bubbly personality is infectious and. shows  in all her classes all the children are up and moving and nonstop fun and learning . If you see Katie around the gym don't hesitate to say hello. Katie is one of our kinder gym coaches and she also coaches recreational gymnastics. Katie is also studying her Bachelor of Early Childhood Education 

Ellen is another one of our coaches who has been a part of our family for many years. Ellen began gymnastics when she was 3 years old. Ellen continued her gymnastics career all the way up until 2020 when she decided to retire. Although Ellen is not seen flipping around, she does keep busy by playing Cricket. 

Ellen is beginner qualified, and is working towards her Advanced qualifications. Ellen coaches at both our Healesville and Lilydale campus and she passes down her love for the sport to each and every gymnast she coaches. 

Darci is another one of our coaches who has had many years of gymnastics experience. Darci was training in our competitive level 6 team before she decided to put her skills to rest in 2020. 

She is now putting her skills and passion into coaching one of competitive level 4 sqauds 

Darci displays a positive attitude and enthusiasm to learn. She has begun her coaching her first competitive squad in 2022 and boy has she done an amazing job. 

Her determination to do well and help others achieve positive results is something we admire.

Ben is our  FreeG coaches, that has recently began his coaching career with Glitz in 2019. 

Ben started FreeG in 2017 which makes

his experience and knowledge in the FreeG sport something we are keen to pass on to our young beginners.  

Chloe is one of our newer junior coaches who does parties and also has just started coaching recreational classes by herself and her confidence continues to grow, her smile is infectious and her enthusiasm towards coaching shows as she continues to further her knowledge within gymnastics and getting her beginner coaching accreditation 

Milly is one of our new junior coaches and eager to learn and further develop her skills and knowledge of gymnastics, she is also another coach who started off as a gymnast at glitz in WAG level 3 .
Milly shows great enthusiasm to coach and pass on her knowledge of gymnastics down to her little ones she is now coaching 

Zahra is another one of our junior coaches who does both parties and recreational classes. Zahra is one of our newer coaches but her energy and attitude is infectious and she is always happy and ready to learn and make her classes fun and exciting for everyone. 

Liv started as a cheerleader in 2015 in our glitz gems team, she then continued her love for her cheer at vibe but joined coaching here at glitz in 2023. She wanted to start coaching a the place that got her love for cheer and gymnastics. Liv coaches some of our recreational classes and uses some of her knowledge from cheer and uses that and helps further her gymnasts floor skills and confidence 

Grace started at glitz over a year ago as a party host and helping making the parties. fun and enjoyable time for all children involved, she has recently started expanding her learning to being coaching recreational gymnastics as a junior coach, continuing learning and developing her knowledge of gymnastics. Grace is always smiling and  encouraging the children to try new things. 

Noumea is our newest coaches joining the the glitz team!

She does cheerleading at vibe studios and is joining our glitz team as a junior coach teaching recreational gymnastics ready to learn and put some of her cheerleading knowledge into gymnastics 

Liam is one of our newest coaches joining the the glitz team helping out our free g classes !

Liam has started coaching our younger free g classes with our other coach Ben, Liam is eager to learn and pass down his knowledge of free g to the young children within his classes! 

Finn is also a new addition to the free g coaches!

He is coaching alongside Ben as he learns the ropes of free g, but Finn has some prior knowledge to when he used to come here when he was younger.