team
Northstars Gymnastics has a rigorous selection process and we maintain a very high standard of coaching across all our gymnastics classes.
Kyla Phillips
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Kyla started her gymnastics career as a Northstars Gymnast and was a Junior Olympic Artistic Gymnast before focusing on her Tumbling career. She achieved Junior and Senior National champion from 2004 -2010 in tumbling, won African Champs in 2006 and has a 6th overall World Championship ranking 2010.
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She has been coaching gymnastics since 2006. Kyla specialises in coaching high performance gymnastics and is involved in coaching gymnasts who are identified as possible high performance gymnasts, ensuring that they follow the best possible path for their ability and talent. Kyla is a FIG International level 2 coach, and a level 2 SAGF Judge, Kyla also has a degree in marketing.
Lee Peckover
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Lee has been coaching Gymnastics since 2009 and specialises in coaching high level, high performance competitive gymnastics. She has an international FIG level 1 coaches qualification and an international (SAGF lev 4) judges qualification.
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She has an undergrad in Industrial psychology and her honours in psychology from University of Johannesburg. Lee also has her Federation colours for gymnastics as she represented the South African Gymnastics federation at the Zone 6 competition in 2013.
