Team Coaches

Head Coach:

Coach Paul: Paul Wileyto has been coaching our trampoline team since 2007. He began trampoline at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Illinois in 1971. (Illinois high schools had trampoline as part of gymnastics until 1978.) He attended the University of Wisconsin (Madison) from 1973-1977, and competed in gymnastics as a high-bar specialist (alas, there was no trampoline competition). Paul started judging men’s gymnastics in 1979, and has been judging USAG boy’s gymnastics since 1982. While in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, he coached the Penn Men’s Gymnastics Club, which consisted of former members of the Penn Men’s Gymnastics Team, many new undergraduates, and several graduate and professional students. By day, Paul is a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Director of Biostatistics for the Penn Tobacco Use Research Center.

Jane Caron: Jane finished as a level 10 trampolinist for KMC, and coached throughout high-school. She is currently a student at University of Delaware, and is our team assistant coach.

Max Boddorff: Max was a long standing team member, and level 10 athlete, and a trampoline judge since for many years. Max spent 4 years at Kutztown University, returning to coach on a regular basis. He has settled back in the area and teaches our advanced class on Wednesday evenings.

Assistant Coaches:

Junior Coaches:

Emeritus:

Joseph Kozlowski: Joe was level 10 trampolinist for KMC (2010 Level 10 National Champion), and a Junior Elite for Elite Trampoline Academy. He went on to become a member of the US Junior National Team, representing the US around the world.  Joe is now a junior at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.

 

Briana Kozlowski: A former Junior Elite Trampolinist, she coached our team and taught KMC classes from 2013 to 2018. She is a now a Freshman at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky.

Matthew Wileyto: Finished as a level 9 Trampolinist in 2016 and remains a category 3 judge. He is a junior at Penn State university in State College, PA.

Sarah Arrigo (Circus Sarah): Sarah is a former Level 10 Trampolinist for KMC who keeps finding her way back to us. She was also an assistant coach with Don’s original team. She is currently in school in California for Occupational Therapy.

Marie Caron: Coach Marie was one of our successful team-parents made coach. She comes from a gymnastics family. Her mother was a well known Judge and Coach, and her father was one of the original Muscle Beach gymnasts in California. Marie is a pediatric occupational therapist with certification in Sensory Integration (movement therapy), with 20 years of working with regular and special ed children in both fine and gross motor.

Ilan Difillipo: Former Level 8 trampolinist.

Vickie Fleming: Vickie is a former level 10 trampolinist. She coached for us during the 2011-2012 season. She is currently in school at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Justine Franchina: Coach Justine coached our team from 2012 to 2017. She was born and raised in Virginia. Justine competed with the Aerials and Roanoke Academy from 1979-1989. She advanced from the Beginner level to Advanced level and over the course of her career competed across the US and won several invitational and state titles. While at Virginia Tech, Justine competed on the club team and began power lifting and body building. She also coached a Blacksburg YMCA gymnastics team, and taught gymnastics classes for the YMCA. She renewed her USAG professional membership to assist with the boy’s team at KMC, and then added trampoline and tumbling to her professional affiliations. Justine received her PhD in Organic Polymer Chemistry in 1999 from Texas A&M University.

Don Furrer: Creator and first coach of KMC Trampoline.

Beverly Kozlowski: Bev is one of our biggest successes in creating a coach from a team parent. She had no background, but had a big incentive to get it right- her two kids who went on to represent the USA internationally from 2010-2014.

Steve Kydd: Former Junior Elite from KMC. We have lost track of him. We know he was applying to medical schools a couple of years back.

Matt Leonard: Matt was level 9 trampolinist for KMC, and coached for us from 2009-2011. He has more recently coached for International Gymnastics Camp. He is just finishing his degree in business at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and will be returning to the Philadelphia area.

Steve Marando: Steve is one of our early success in developing a coach from a team parent. He coached from 2009-2010.

Cydney Panichi: Cydney was a level 10 trampolinist for KMC, and is now in school for occupational therapy. She keeps finding her way back to us.