Our Coaching Staff: California Flyers & Gymcheer USA

Shelly Gramatky
Owner of Gymcheer USA, and California Flyers All-Star Teams. Shelly is a Pepperdine University graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Sports Medicine. She is the former head coach and choreographer for William S. Hart High School (7 years). She is also formerly the Director of Cheerleading and Tumbling at Fun & Fit Gymnastics Centers (7 years). She currently choreographs for Jr. High, High School, and College teams around Southern California. Shelly is certified in Safety with the AACCA (American Association for Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors), USA Gymnastics, NCA (National Cheerleader's Association), and First Aid/CPR, and currently certified through the United States All Star Federation for partner stunts, tumbling, and basket tosses. Shelly is currently a GSSA (Golden State Spirit Association) member, and has been a guest speaker at the annual Coaches' Conference for California, and is named the Coach of the Year for 2005.

Shelly is currently the Head Coach for Village Christian High School, where she previously coached from 1992-2001. Shelly attended Village K-12, and is thrilled to be working on campus again. She is on staff with US Spiritleaders, a cheerleading host of camps, clinics and competitions, based in Long Beach. She also judges for cheerleading competitions around the country, and is currently a representative with companies from the east who are planning on moving their evolving ideas of East Coast cheer to the West Coast. Shelly is the Program Director and choreographer for all of the California Flyers Teams. She also mixes the performance music, and in 2004-05 competed on the Nationally ranked Orange Crush Open team, which is featured in Gwyn Stefani's 'Holla Back Girl' Music Video.

Jamie Willis
Jamie is a graduate of Canyon High School and currently is pursuing a career in Teaching. Jamie plans to be a first grade teacher in the near future. Jamie is a former coach of the Canyon High School Cheerleading teams, and was a Canyon cheerleader for four years as well as being captain of her team. She is a GSSA member, CPR/First Aid certified, and AACCA certified. Jamie is a judge for cheer competitions, and also volunteers her time during the summer to be a camp counselor for the YMCA. Jamie has been a member of our California Flyers Open Team for 3 years, and this past season competed on the Orange Crush All-Girl Open Team which traveled to the NCA Dallas, Tx National Championships and won the 3rd place title next to Gymtime and Cheer Athletics. She is a featured member in the 'Holla Back Girl' Music Video from Gwyn Stefani. Jamie has been a part of our teaching staff for 5 years. Jamie teaches classes and private lessons, and motivates our students to strive for excellence!

Amanda Sabo
Graduated William S. Hart High School and was a member of the Award winning Varsity Cheerleading Team. She also was a flyer on the Hart Stunt Team her senior year with a 5th place win at Nationals out of 42 teams. Amanda has cheered all 4 years of High School and was a captain on both JV and Varsity.... named the National Cheerleading Association's All-American, US Spiritleaders' All Star Top Honor, as well as Universal Cheerleaders Association's Top All-Star Individual Title, which allowed her to perform in New York City's Macy's Thanksgiving parade.

Amanda trained in Coed Partner Stunting through her years at Valencia High School, and trained in gymnastics through Shelly at Fun at Fit Gymnastics Centers. She also competed on California Flyers Senior Team which was undefeated that season, bringing home 1st place Championship Titles at the local, State, Regional and National level. Before Cheerleading, Amanda trained as a competitive ice skater, which has helped her cross over into this competitive sport. She is CPR certified, AACCA certified and first aid certified by the American Red Cross.

Amanda began teaching cheer and tumbling at Fun and Fit Gymnastics under the direction of Shelly, and definitely has a passion and understanding to help students improve their skills. Amanda trains our team members, runs our Spring and Summer Camp program, as well as teaching our Fly Girls (flyer) classes, and other recreation classes.

Faviana Francisco
Favi is a University of California, Santa Barbara graduate, with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication. Favi trained as a competitive gymnast for nine years under the direction of the Santa Clarita Valley Aerials. After much success as a level 8 gymnast Favi entered the Hart High School Cheerleading Program and made the Varsity spirit and competition Team all 4 years. As captain, she led her stunt group to win first place and her Varsity team 5th place at UCA (Universal Cheerleaders’ Association) Nationals, in Orlando, Florida, which aired on ESPN. She was named the NCA (National Cheerleaders’ Association) All American 4 years in a row and NCA’s Best Cheerleader in 2001.

After high school, Favi went on to work for NCA as an instructor. There she traveled around the country teaching, motivating, and developing cheerleaders. Favi is a former coach for California Flyers Sr team in 2001-2002, which went undefeated that season.

Currently, Favi assists the training of California Flyers All-Star teams, teaches private lessons, and is involved in our recreational classes and summer camps. Favi is CPR & 1st Aid Certified, and truly enjoys her position as a coach and looks forward to making your child’s experience a positive one!

Katie Greenspan
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Laura Muller
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Cody Glen
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Andrew Vondersaar
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Holley Foster
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