Coach
Ann Kanelos is an Altius kindergym and girls team coach. She has been
with Altius over 20 years but she has been involved in sports most of
her life and was even interested in coaching early on. Ann starting
taking gymnastics classes as a young child. She relates that some of her
earliest memories of gymnastics were seeing Olga Korbut compete on
television. She was sidelined for a 9-month stretch in grade school when
a fall at Girl Scout camp fractured her arm and it took almost a year
for it to heal properly. She bounced back to go to the Junior Olympics
in synchronized swimming as a middle schooler and compete as a high
school gymnast. Ann took a job as a teen coaching rec department
gymnastics and swimming classes. She has always liked balance beam best,
when it comes to participating in the sport and also when teaching her
students.
In
college, Ann used some of her gymnastics skills to compete in diving.
These days, Ann is a busy mom who likes to relax by watching episodes of
her favorite TV show, “Grey’s Anatomy”. She especially enjoys Italian
food and reports that her son and daughter make her smile. She relates
that one of her pet peeves is clutter. “Anyone who knows me knows that I
like things structured and organized,” Ann says.
Even
as a young person, Ann was not afraid to jump through some hoops...she
filled out essays and interviewed to land a job as a ball girl for the
Milwaukee Does professional women’s basketball team and was even a
finalist in a competition to become “Bonnie Brewer”.
