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Tori Wirgler: Head Coach
Tori
has been coaching and choreographing cheerleading and
dance for 8 years. With a background in
gymnastics (7 years), dance(20 years), and
cheerleading(11 years) she has accomplished many things such as full
scholarships to the
University of Nevada, Reno and Long Beach State,
where she graduated with a BA in Communications. She has won several
National titles with Long Beach State, OCC, Cheer Empire, Titan
Elite, and Orange Crush. She instructed summer camps for USA
including Camp of Champs, and College Camp, and was also a Head
Instructor for 2 years leading many of their large Southern
California camps. She has judged for USA, GSSA, and US Spiritleaders
and has also represented USA in Guatemala and Singapore for parades,
competitions, and clinics. She has also done various television
shows, commercials, and music videos...Most recently she was
featured as the lead cheerleader in Coca Colas new 'Green'
commercial campaign. The commercial have been seen worldwide all
throughout the 2008 summer Olympics and is currently airing during
some of the most popular shows on TV such as American Idol. She is
USASF Certified Levels 1-5 in Baskets, Stunts, and Tumbling. She is
excited to be with a program with so much potential and is proud to
coach with an amazing staff!
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Christina Figueroa: Head Tumbling Coach, Asst. Cheer Coach
Christina
has been a cheerleader for 16 years. Her experience as a performer
consist of being a High School, College and All Star cheerleader as
well as a U.S. Spiritleaders staff member for the last 8 years, and
a hip hop dancer for South Coast Freestyle. Christina has coached,
choreographed and competed on nationally ranked cheer and dance
teams throughout the United States. With her outstanding skills and
tremendous knowledge of the cheer and dance industry, Christina is
an integral part of The Diamond Elite Cheer Program. Other than
running a tight ship here Christina likes to show off her
cheerleading and dancing skills in music videos with her most recent
one being Gwen Stefani's "Holla Back Girl" video.
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Susan Bell: Director
Susan
began working with children’s programs in 1992 and has
focused on cheer and gymnastics over the last 7
years. She was the Director of the Los
Alamitos Pop Warner Cheer Organization as well as Head Coach. She
lead the first team in the Orange Empire Conference and Pop Warner
history to make top five at the 2004 Cheerleading Championship
Nationals in Florida. She led the same team to a first place victory
at that competition in the Spirit Award category... A very coveted
award! Susan also works as the Cheer
Advisor putting together and coordinating events, fundraisers,
public relations, and developing program needs. She feels that
running the Diamond Elite All Star Cheer program is a privilege.
Susan was a key factor in its inception, has been a part of Diamond
Elite since day one and is overjoyed at the amount of growth she has
seen these past years. She knows that the success of this program
has been due to her talented coaches, professional staff, supportive
parents, and most of all the team spirit. Susan is the single mother
of two wonderful daughters that are also cheerleaders!
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