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VICTORY GYMNASTICS ACADEMY COACHES AND FORMER OLYMPIC CHAMPS JAMIE DANTZSCHER AND CHARLIE TAMAYO AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS SURROUNDING SAN DIEGO’S BID TO HOST THE 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES

SAN DIEGO – While media is buzzing about San Diego’s requested bid from the U.S. Olympic Committee to host the 2024 Olympics, VICTORY GYMNASTICS ACADEMY (VGA) already boasts some Olympic winners of their own: Head Team Coaches Charlie Tamayo and the recently hired Jamie Dantzscher. Both coaches are available to speak to media about benefits of the Olympics for San Diego and its residents.

Tamayo is a three-time Pan Am Team Champion who made Cuban history twice for winning world medals. Dantzscher was a member of the U.S. National Gymnastics Team for eight years where she won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and gold, silver and bronze medals at the preceding U.S. Nationals in 2000, 1999 and 1998. The Southern California native later joined the UCLA Bruins gymnastic team where she achieved 28 perfect 10.0 scores setting a school record that has yet to be overturned.

Victory’s Gym Director is Cy Platt, who with his brothers Boone and Cheetah toured with The Platt Brothers, also the name of their full-length theatrical production featuring acrobatics, dance, comedy and music. The Platt Brothers also made several appearances on “America’s Got Talent.”

VGA owner Shawna Meyer has brought a perfect mix of fun, fitness, focus, discipline and healthy competitive spirit to the kids of thousands of other moms over the past seven years.

A veteran realtor specializing in building and selling residential properties, Meyer became increasingly frustrated with the non-profit gym where her then grade school aged daughters Madison and Cameron—both talented competitive gymnasts—did their training. In her search for another local facility, she realized that there were no other big gyms in San Diego offering the kind of gymnastics programs she was looking for. Meyer and her husband found a building, refurbished it and opened Victory in its original 12,000 square-foot location in 2006.

In January 2011, the facility moved to its current 18,000 square-foot space in the Kearny Mesa area—which makes it the largest gym of its kind in the San Diego area. Exciting safety meets playful amenities include a six-foot deep foam pit—the perfect safe landing spot after dismounting off the uneven bars, tumbling off the floor or vaulting. There is also a 40-foot long in-ground Tumble Trak, which functions like a long trampoline and allows for easy, safe flipping. The vault area features an 80-foot runway and the downstairs area has a 40×40 foot Olympic type competition floor, made from fiberglass with springs covered by carpet bonded foam.

To arrange an interview, contact Chrissy Sutphin at (818) 232-4175 or info@luckmedia.com.

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