TEAM COACHES
Youri Vorobiev – Owner and Head Coach of Acrobatic Gymnastics Program, 2024 USAG Hall of Hame Inductee.
Since joining the USAG acrobatic community as a coach in 2002, Realis Gymnastics head coach and owner Vorobyev has made an indelible impact on the discipline. He coached U.S. mixed pair Arthur Davis and Shenea Booth to their first and second World Championship gold medals in 2002 and 2004, the first acro athletes to do so for the country. He most recently coached men’s pair Angel Felix and Braiden McDougall to the first World men’s pair gold medal for the U.S. in 2022. In World Cup competition, Vorobyev coached two sets of the country’s first World Cup Series title winners in mixed pair Ryan Ward and Kyley Boynton, and in men’s pair Felix and McDougall. He has coached junior and senior gymnasts to more than 60 U.S. titles since 2002 and has coached four sets of World gold medalists, six sets of World silver and bronze medalists, two sets of The World Games medalists, seven sets of World Cup gold winners, and three sets of World Cup silver and bronze medal winners. Vorobyev has been named the Acrobatic Coach of the Year six times and has also held the position of National Team coach in the discipline from 2013-19. He is married with one daughter and two grandchildren. Before immigrating to the United States, Vorobyev received a master’s degree in Gymnastics & Acrobatics from Pedagogical University of Ushinskiy in Yaroslavl.
Kyla McCormack
- Artistic Gymnastics Team Head Coach
- Over 15 years of Coaching experience from Beginner to all the way to Elite
- Multiple State, Regional, Western Champions
- Attended Tops and Hopes Camps, several camps at the National Training Center
- Participated National and International coaches training
Kami Amemiya-Shows
- Director of Recreational and Preschool program/ Artistic Gymnastics Team Coach
- 17 years of competitive gymnastics
- Level 10 Regional Bar Champion (2011, 2012)
- 4 Time Level 10 National Qualifier
- 6th on the floor at Level 10 Nationals 2012
- Earned full athletic scholarship to University of Nebraska
- Academic All-Big Ten award (Nebraska)
- Bachelor degree in Child, Youth, and Family studies with a double minor in Sociology and Psychology
- coaching for 5 years