Staff of Ontario

Linghong Guo (Coach Anna) – Team Coach

Anna is the third child and the only daughter of the Guo’s gymnastics family. She began her interest in gymnastics at a mere age of 3. The fact that both her parents were coaches gave her the opportunity to follow them around during class time while slowly picking up skills by watching and playing around. Around 8 years of age, she began participating in low leveled competitions. She was then recruited into Ba Yi Sports Team the following year for her outstanding efforts. This was the beginning of her official training as a gymnast. At age 15, Anna represented China in the 1982 International Championships in Greece and received Gold medals in Vault, Bars, and Beams and earned herself the title of All-Around Champion. In 1983, she was selected to be a competitor in a Top 18 National Competition, where she placed in the top 3’s. For Anna, gymnastics is the foundation for her life and the definition of her existence. Pursuing her passion for gymnastics, she attended college to perfect her coaching skills. In America, she has coached at West Coast Elite Gymnastics for over 8 years. During her time there, she developed students to the National Level in both Level 9 and 10. Currently, Anna is serving as a Team Coach at her own family business, World Elite Gymnastics.

Linyao Guo (Coach Leo) - Team Coach

Leo is the youngest son of the Guo’s gymnastics family. Ever since he was two-years-old, Leo has had gymnastics as a part of his life. Similarly to Anna, he slowly learned the basics of gymnastics until he was 8, which was when he officially began his training. In 1992, he was a medalist in the Olympic Games. He has received medals in other numerous international events and even claiming the title of World Champion in 1994. He attended Beijing Sports College, where he became the assistant head coach for his college gymnastics program. During the 29^th Olympic Games, he was part of the Organizing Committee. As a technical operation manager, he was responsible for ensuring that the equipment were in regulation with the IF standards. After the event, he was honored with Excellent Staff of the Organizing Committee.

Pommel Horse 1992 Olympic Games

Parallels Bar 1992 Olympic games

Horizontal bar 1992 Olympic games

Gary Gao - General Manager & Special Events Coordinator

Gary, from a young age, has accumulated over 10 years of experience in planning and management, prior to managing World Elite Gymnastics, from his church. He has grown up around a family of 6 uncles and aunts whom are all gymnasts. Since he was little, Gary has been in and out of gymnastics facilities every day. He studied Business Administration with an emphasis in Management and Finance at California State University, Fullerton. Starting as an office assistant at age 18, Gary soon worked his way up the ladder to becoming the department manager for his insurance company in the span of 3 years.

Garik Guo - Recreational & Team Coach & Parkour Specialist & Martial Arts Expert

At the age of 6, Garik started enduring the extensive trainings of both Wushu and gymnastics. At an early age, he competed in gymnastics and attained first place at Nationals. In Wushu, Garik has received countless both gold and silver medals between 2003 and 2007. Included in this is a Gold Medal in Men’s Southern Fist(Nan Quan) at the world championships for Chinese Martial Arts. As a naturally open person, Garik is easy to approach and work with well with children. He has coached and trained at many well-known parkour facilities all over China. He hopes to bring his knowledge of Chinese Wushu and parkour to the next generation of athletes.

Limei Xiao (Coach Nikki) – Team & Recreational Coach

Nikki started practicing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 6. During her teen years, she became an elite athlete and was accepted into China’s National Rhythmic Gymnastics team. She’s received numerous national competition titles such as national champion. She has participated in numerous international championships where she received countless medals for her superb performance. In 2002 she was certified by “Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique”(FIG) as a referee to be an international and national judge for rhythmical gymnastics. In 2008, she was a part of the 29^th Olympic Games Organizing Committee. Aside from achieving a high status in gymnastics, she also has a degree in computer science and sports training.

Erik-Team & Recreational class Coach

Paiton Grayson – Team Coach & Recreational Coach

Paiton began her gymnastics journey in 2008 at the age of 14, competing in the AAU artistic gymnastics program. She later transitioned into trampoline and tumbling where she still trains and competes here at World Elite Gymnastics. Her love for gymnastics inspired her to begin coaching in 2012 for both Artistic and T&T. She currently coaches for a number of different classes including the Trampoline and Tumbling compulsory team and Artistic compulsory team. She hopes to inspire kids and to teach them that no matter how old you are, if you work hard, stay disciplined and trust in yourself, no dream is too big and no goal is unattainable!

Maraya Miller – Recreational Coach & Team Coach

Maraya has been involved with sports her whole life. She started gymnastics when she was three and continued for eleven years until she reached level 7. Beam was her favorite event, followed by floor. Maraya is also very involved with martial arts. She did judo for many years as a kid, wrestled on the varsity team throughout high school and is now an amateur MMA fighter. She hopes to become Pro and fight in the UFC someday. Until then, Maraya will continue to share her love for coaching with her students while staying involved with her gymnastics background.

Mary Nolte – Office Manager

For Mary, gymnastics has been a part of her life for over 15 years. As soon as her daughter could walk, she enrolled her in gymnastics classes ,who soon fell in love with it. After her daughter discovered Trampoline and Tumbling, she was completely hooked. Before her career in running a gymnastics business, Mary worked in many diverse fields such as being a Crime Scene Investigator (CSI), Sales Manager and Product Line Manager for a Laser manufacturer, and an Office Manager for a Christian elementary school. She was the owner of Frequent Flyer Xtreme Gymnastics and is now enjoying working as the Office Manager for World Elite Gymnastics Ontario.

Marlene Grayson – Office Staff

Marlene Grayson is one of the oldest of 12 kids and has a very extensive background in care-providing for kids of all ages along with children who have special needs. Marlene also attended and graduated Nursing school and is currently working on certification. Marlene came to admire the sport many years ago through her sister Paiton who is a gymnast, and has been a fan ever since. Right now, Marlene is working in the front office and helps with daily operations.

Kyle Hough – Recreational Coach & Maintenance Technician

For Kyle, he was more used to playing around at gymnastics institutions rather than taking classes. He became involved in gymnastics two years ago when he started helping out at gymnastics meets. He is mostly involved in running the show from behind the scenes, helps maintain facilities, and is now training to become a coach. He graduated from Ontario Christian High School in 2015 and is attending the University of La Verne. He is majoring in Kinesiology and wants to become a physical therapist.

Phillip Lo – Office Staff & Recreational Coach

Phillip’s mother is a Chinese school teacher and as a result, from a young age Phillip has had years of experience assisting and working in office environments. In high school, Phillip worked not only as the First grade Sunday school teacher; he was also the Tech Team Leader for high school youth at his church. Not unfamiliar with the sports field, Phillip was on the track and field team for 7 years, from middle school all the way up until high school. Phillip is currently majoring in Computer Programming. Besides working at World Elite, Phillip is also a manager at a restaurant in Irvine.

Bailey Yu – Office Staff & Recreational Coach