Ashley Beaver – Head Coach
Ashley was a dancer between the age of 5 – 16 yrs old. He then turned his hand to Sports Acrobatics and has been twice British Champion in Mens Pairs and competed for Great Britain for 5 years. After competing internationally for 5 years he then went on to work for Cirque du Soleil as a featured performer in the show ‘Varekai’. Ashley has been performing adagio acrobatics and static trapeze with his partner Sarah for 8 years. He is a Club Coach in Sports Acro and is taking many courses to update his qualifications to keep current in the gymnastics world.
Sarah Needham – Head Coach
Sarah has been involved in Gymnastics since the age of 5. Based at Heathrow Gymnastics Club she has competed in Artistic, Sports Acrobatic and Sports Aerobic. Sarah was 4 times British Champion in Womens trio for Sports Aerobics and has competed for Great Britain at European and World Championships. Sarah is qualified as a Club Coach in Sports Acro, Senior Club Coach in Artistic and Fitness Ballet. She has been in charge of the Mini Squad and coached in acrobatics at Heathrow gym for 10 yrs and coached at many Schools and clubs.
Si-Wan Cheung – Coach
Si-Wan is a level 3 General Gymnastics Club Coach, and has been teaching since she was 14 Years old. She has taught both here in England, and in America at summer camps, and has taught children from as young as 3 to 18 years old. As a gymnast, Si-Wan competed as an artistic gymnast when she was younger, and then in Sport Acrobatics for 11 years at Richmond, and competed regionally, nationally, and internationally. All in all, she has been involved in gymnastics for over 26 years!
Louise Wheeler – Coach
Lousie was a gymnast from the age of seven and started coaching when she was fifteen at Abbey Gymnastics. She has been teaching gymnastics at Booker Gym Club for the last eight years where she has gained her Level 2 Women’s Artistic qualification, alongside Vault and Floor Judging Qualification Level 1 and add on Module Level 2 for Freestyle Gymnastics. Louise teaches a range of ages from toddler to adult gym and a mixture of abilities.
Louise Mearns – Coach and Welfare Officer
Louise is qualified in General Gym Level 4 and in Team Gym. She also judges every year for Floor and Vault and Team Gym competitions. Louise is also the clubs Welfare Officer.
Rositsa Vasileva – Coach
Rositsa begun gymnastics at age of 6. She obtained medals from national and international competitions during her sports career.
Rositsa is entitled with the highest level – “Master of sport” in the artistic gymnastic and “Candidate Master of Sport” in the Acrobatics Gymnastics – tumbling path.
From August 2015 she is main coach of Regional Squad.
Up to now her gymnasts are 41 medals winners, 21 of them golden.
Her squad is holder of 6 big and 6 small trophies and cups. We are very lucky to have such an experienced coach on board with us.
Mya Martin – Assistant Coach
Mya is another one of our longest running members. Having been a gymnast with us she understands the structures of all of our classes from the 5yr olds right up to the teenagers. Mya is a very capable coach and can adapt and change her section of the lesson to suit any level she is also currently taking her level 1 General Gymnastics course which we wish her all the best for.
Hilary Needham – Administrator
Hilary deals with the waiting list, any payment issues, holiday classes and all the clubs emails and administrative duties. She truly is worth her weight in gold.
If you have any questions please email the club at
hammersmithgymnasticsclub@hotmail.co.uk or on: 07586273316
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