As a performance coach, Coach Lain seeks to help athletes of all ages, skill levels, and experience understand themselves and their skills better, and gain the confidence they need to outperform ANY fear or performance anxiety. Confidence is a skill just like any other – it needs to be nurtured, cultivated, and exhausted!!! In doing so, you can learn to fully trust yourself and your technique, even when your logical brain tries to tell you otherwise. Confidence, in any thing you seek to do, is a direct correlation to understanding, and understanding comes through repetition and technique drilling. 

Coaching high-performing athletes is the responsibility of the community, not the sole individual. Coach Lain provides training services for coaching staffs and parents in spotting technique, skill drilling, dynamic coaching, and performance psychology.

Coach Lain is based in Northern California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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She feels she is lucky enough to be so involved in cheerleading that it has become her full time job as a Director at Alberta Cheer Empire for the last 4 years.

Mary (She/Her) is a special education teacher in Saskatchewan. She earned her Masters Degree in 2014 where she focused on behaviour challenges in children. Her involvement with the SCA began in 2007 as a dance judge. Since then, she has been a Judging Director and Member at Large on the SCA executive, Dance/Performance Cheer Judge, and Judges’ Administrator. 

U of S Dance Team – POM HEAD COACH / TEAM MANAGER / CO-FOUNDER

Jill danced for a total of 14 years in what has seemed like every style under the sun both recreationally and competitively. She has trained, competed and performed at various places throughout North America. She has taught dance for 9 years both recreational and competitive, coached competitive pom for 7 years and additionally coached scholastic and all star cheerleading as well. Coaching is her passion and she is so excited to work with an incredible group of individuals to make this season a blast!

SASKATOON AND AREA’S 2SLGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTRE AND SERVICE PROVIDER

We believe in a bolder, braver, and safer future for all. We strive towards this by providing support services, youth housing, and education and research services through a harm reduction, culturally informed, equity-seeking, and community-based approach.

Alissa Stewart is from Regina, Saskatchewan and is the full time executive director for the Saskatchewan Cheerleading Association. Alissa has a strong background in dance and cheerleading with over 20 years experience as a performer, athlete, coach, and official. Recently, Alissa was selected as the Cheer Canada performance cheer officials trainer and assisted in developing the Cheer Canada performance cheer scoresheets and scoring methodology.