Japanese National Team Member & Olympic Gymnast -  Miki Uemura Joins WOGA 
Team Coaching Intern
  

 
Please help us Welcome Miki

 
Japanese Champion Miki Uemura is spending a year observing team coaches at WOGA Plano.

Miki competed for the Japanese National Team from 2003 through 2009, and represented Japan at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 Olympics, and 2009 World Championships.

After retiring from competition in 2009, her coach, Chieko Tsukahara (1968 Olympian) and Valeri Liukin worked out a plan for Miki to spend a year observing WOGA's coaching methods.   

Miki trained with Coach Tsukahara at the Asahi Seimei club in Tokyo.    Miki hopes to return to Japan and become a world class coach.

Miki is staying with WOGA team gymnasts, Devon & Rachel Kiehne's family while she is visiting WOGA.

Gym Trivia:  Click here to see animated example of the "TSUKAHARA" vault made famous by Mitsuo Tsukahara 30 years ago.