Women's Gymnastics

Chi Ouchida, dedicated 16 years to the sport of gymnastics, competing at a competitive level for a decade, and retired from the sport as a level 9 MAC athletic member. In 2012, Chi took her passion for gymnastics beyond personal pursuits and began coaching Recreational gymnastics at Cedar Hills Rec Center. And in 2014, expanded her involvement by joining the MAC coaching staff. Chi is the lead compulsory coach, gold coach, and choreographs routines for all levels.

Brin Noel is an accomplished multi-sport athlete, gymnast, and two-time American Ninja Warrior competitor. As a mom of three daughters, Brin has a passion for building confident, hard-working, independent qualities in young gymnasts and developing the whole athlete. Through positive coaching focused on a growth mindset and athlete education, gymnasts learn valuable life lessons that they will utilize in all aspects of life. By providing regular access to sports psychology and nutrition professionals, gymnasts learn how to mentally prepare for the various challenges in gymnastics and adequately fuel their growing bodies. As a certified NASM trainer and biology major from Lewis and Clark College, Brin uses her knowledge of resistance strength training, injury prevention, and the science of muscle recovery to benefit the overall health of the gymnasts.

Rob Petit grew up in West Linn in the 70's when it was still an idyllic little suburb playing sports, riding bikes, climbing trees. He graduated from West Linn High School in 1979. Back when gymnastics was still a sport in Oregon High Schools. Rob coached all levels of boys and girls at Sunburst Gymnastic Center from 1980-1982 and again from 1986-1989. Coached competitive and recreational gymnastics at Bulleen Templestowe Youth Club near Melbourne Australia. Rob owned Champion Gymnastics Center in Canby Oregon from 1989-1999. He has been teaching all levels of boys and girls at the Multnomah Athletic Club from 1999 to present day. Rob is USA gymnastics Safety Certified, Safe Sport Trained, Meet director certified, skill evaluator certified, First Aid trained, Women’s Artistic Junior Olympic Team Coach, and National Coach. Rob is a Region Two Congress presenter and former Oregon Compulsory Coach of the Year. Rob is passionate about helping athletes to set and achieve goals and to learn important life lessons such as positive thinking, kindness and efficient use of time.

E.J. has been involved in the sport for 16 years. She was a level 10 competitive gymnast at pacific west gymnastics in the California bay area. After graduating high school in 2018, she then went on to compete at the collegiate level for Ursinus college in Collegeville, Pennsylvania while studying health and exercise physiology. She has 5 years of experience coaching recreational and competitive gymnastics.

Buggy, originally from Texas, began taking gymnastics at 4 years old. They competed competitively then started coaching at age 15, still practicing the sport to this day. They have coached Pre-team and Xcel in both Texas and Oregon. Buggy loves sharing their passion for the sport with young gymnasts and hopes to instill them with self-confidence. They love to celebrate improvements and use creativity to cultivate a fun environment.

Taylor grew up in southern Oregon where she grew her passion for the sport of gymnastics throughout her time as a state-winning compulsory gymnast. After transitioning from gymnastics to cheerleading as an athlete in high school she found she simply couldn’t stay out of the gym and began coaching all ages and skill levels of recreational gymnastics at fifteen years old. Following her move to Portland, Taylor joined the MAC recreational coaching staff where her passion for the sport and success of athletes has only further deepened over the last two years. As a coach, Taylor hopes to inspire confidence in her athletes and believes each victory, however small, should be celebrated loudly and joyously. She strives to make the kind of positive impact her gymnastics coaches had on her growing up.

Charlie was born in the Philippines on an American base and grew up in multiple states. Charlie was a gymnast for 10 years, competing for 7, but stopped competition at the age of 15. He moved to Oregon in 2009 to go to College at Lewis & Clark in Portland. In 2013 he graduated with his Bachelor's in Psychology and started coaching recreational gymnastics at Precision Elite Gymnastics. He quickly became a team coach for levels 3 through 5, but left after 2 years to coach at NGTC. Charlie was the recreational director there and coached levels 4 and 5. In 2019, his level 4 team won Oregon's state championship. During COVID, Charlie started working at Northpointe as an optional girls coach and head boys team coach. The discovery of a tumor on his spinal cord forced him to step away from coaching for surgery, physical therapy, and recuperation. It has been 4 long, hard years, but Charlie has successfully made his way back, and he could not be more happy to be working at MAC!