The Owners

Owners, Phil and Chris Summers, moved to Spearfish from Michigan
where they grew up and began their interest in gymnastics. Chris
through her experiences on her high school competitive team and Phil
through the competitive program at central Michigan University
where he attended college. Starting their coaching careers in
Michigan gave way to a move to Washington DC for five years of
experience coaching and running gyms in a far more advanced
environment than available in Michigan at the time. After this, lets
say, training period they returned to Michigan to purchase and run
their own gym for nine years. Even though this gym was quite
successful, with six athletes during this time receiving full
scholarships at division one universities and placing at least one
gymnast at level nine or ten nationals for eight of those nine years,
after visiting Spearfish Phil and Chris made the decision to move and
bring gymnastics to the city. That was twelve years ago and today the
Summers have Spearfish Gymnastics Academy with 150 members
and a competitive team that can boast two team State Championships
plus many individual event and all around State Champions.