Employee Bio - The 
Family
Arthur Martinez
Coach Arthur is the owner and activities director of Twister Cheer Company. Arthur grew up in La Grange, Texas where he started his cheerleading career as a La Grange Leopard Cheerleader. After high school Arthur joined the prestigious National Cheerleaders Association Staff. He made the Trinity Valley Community College Cheerleading Squad and at that time they were 5 time NCA Collegiate National Champions. After TVCC, Arthur attended Navarro College and cheered for 3 years winning a collegiate national championship in 2000. That same year Arthur also won an NCA All Star Open National Championship with Spirit of Texas, the nation's leading company for competitive cheerleading. After Navarro, Arthur cheered at The University of Texas @ Austin fulfilling a lifelong dream for him. Unsatisfied with the cheer program @ UT, Arthur transferred to the University of North Texas in Denton. Arthur won his second collegiate national championship @ UNT in 2002. For his last year of college Arthur chose the University of Oklahoma Sooners. Along with the long list of college honors in cheerleading, Arthur also has judged for America's Best and is now judging for the prestigious companies, Cheer Power, Athletic Championships, Spirit Cheer and Pop Warner Cheer. Arthur is a member of the Varsity Spirit family and is the nationals coach/choreographer for Blinn College in Brenham, TX and is AACCA certified (American Association of Cheerleading Coaches & Administrators). Arthur has worked for some of the nations leading competitive cheerleading gyms including Cheer Station and Cougar Cheer Company. Along with his 18 years of cheer experience, Arthur has a life long passion for the sport of cheerleading and has instilled strong family values in his gym. Cheering for Coach Arthur is truly a life changing experience!
** TCC has a GREAT STAFF! **
Leah
Coach Leah's bio to come, stay tuned.
Nick
Coach Nick Riley, better
known to Twisters as "Coach Nick," has only been a cheerleader for 3
years. He is from Bastrop, TX and attended Bastrop High School. He
played football for 8 years and graduated from Bastrop High in 2008.
Nick loves to play guitar and cheer. He met Arthur, the owner of TCC,
in 2006 when he was trying to learn how to do a better back flip! Nick
never thought he would be a "cheerleader" mainly because he was a
football player and a guy! But Arthur changed his life! Nick cheered
at TCC from 2006 to 2007 and then became a TCC coach
helping to train the next Twister teams. Now, Nick has followed in
Arthur's footsteps, attending and cheering for his second year at
Navarro College, the best cheer team in the nation. Nick is thrilled
to be at Navarro and hopes to cheer at Hawaii Pacific University and
major in Travel Industry Management.
Kelcey
Coach Kelcey Harvell's bio to come.
Courtney
Coach Courtney Ormand began tumbling and cheering in 2003. She served as Captain on the Middle School cheer squad. At Bastrop High School, Courtney cheers for 4 years, 3 years on varsity and as Captain 2009-2010. Courtney cheered for TCC for 2 seasons, captain Level 4 team. She is a 2 time All American Cheerleader - 2008 & 2009. Courtney loves coaching at TCC and helping Shelly with the office administration duties.
Dylan
Coach Dylan Topliff's bio to come.
Krystyl
Coach Krystyl Koehler's bio to come soon.
Tim
Tim West's bio to come.
Hallye
Coach Hallye Bonorden has been a cheerleader for Twister Cheer Company since August of 2006, and is a Captain on the Black Blaze team. Hallye is a Varsity cheerleader for Smithville High School, and has been a cheerleader for 4 years. Hallye has served as Captain and Co-Captain for Smithville. Hallye has been awarded All American UCA Cheerleader in 2006 & 2007 and is a member of the Varsity Golf team for Smithville as well as a member of the Student Council and the National Honor Society. Hallye has over 10 years of dance experience and was a dance instructor assistant for three years. Hallye is currently a coach for the White team and coaches stunt class as well as pre-school tumbling for TCC. She enjoys coaching at Twister and is excited to see each week what new skills her kids have learned and how far they have come since they beginning of the season.
Shelly
Shelly is the Office Manager at Twister Cheer Company. Shelly has been a part of the Twister Cheer family since the gym opened in August of 2006. She served as the Secretary of the TCC Parents Association Booster Club for 2 years and remains today as a devoted member. Shelly brings to TCC over 18 years of office management and legal service experience. Shelly also has a daughter who is a member of TCC's level four team. twistercheerco@live.com
Tami
Tami Cooper is the
Website Coordinator for
Twister Cheer Company.
Tami and Arthur (TCC's owner) have been friends since they were
children. Tami is usually described as a multi-tasker just short of
being "SuperMom." In July 2008, Tami graduated college with
a Bachelors Degree in Business Management with a concentration in
Accounting. Not only was she a recent full time college student, she is a wife
and mother of 3 beautiful little girls. She was a freelance writer for
Bastropia.com, she sold ads for the Texas Express, and just recently
resigned from her second year position as the president of the Spirit
of Rosanky (the committee that hosts the 4th of July festival in
Rosanky, TX each year). She did however direct the first ever Spirit
of Rosanky Jubilee Queen & Princess pageant before resigning.
She is now the Sales and Service Manager at
Aaron's Sales and Lease in Bastrop. Tami's hobbies are photography and writing short stories as well as
spending as much "play time" with her daughters as humanly possible.
Her daughters have been entering and winning beauty pageants and talent
shows for the past few years but Tami has decided to quit
the pageant world for awhile and her two oldest daughters are now
Tiny Twisters.
tami@twistercheercompany.com** the TCC staff **