PANHANDLE PERFECT10N
GYMNASTICS
in GB: 340 Gulf Breeze Pkwy. • Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 • (850) 203-8058
at PSC: 1000 College Blvd., Bldg. 19, Pensacola, FL 32504 • (850) 484-1797
ABOUT US
Panhandle Perfection Gymnastics is the Florida Panhandle's newest gymnastics facility, featuring a competitive National Gymnastics Association and USA Gymnastics women's artistic team. PPG also competes in men's artistic gymnastics, acro gymnastics and trampoline and tumbling. Despite being relatively new, PPG athletes have won numerous state, regional and national titles in all four disciplines.
In 2022, PPG had national qualifiers in all four disciplines including several national champions in NGA men's and women's artistic. It also had its first World Champion with West F. earning the top spot in the world on double mini trampoline for 13-14 year old males.
OUR STAFF
Panhandle Perfection Gymnastics has an accomplished staff that is fully trained in providing your child the best gymnastics experience possible. All PPG staff is background checked and has a safety certification through USA Gymnastics and the National Gymnastics Association.
ALIE FOWLER
Head Girls' Team Coach
Head Acro Gymnastics Coach
Preschool Director
Recreation Director
Alie is in her 28th year of coaching gymnastics. She has been a team coach in three different states, serving as a head team coach for 18 of the past 20 years.
In her seventh season with Panhandle Perfection, Alie began the club's acro program in 2019 in addition to her artistic coaching duties, landing the club's first national qualifier in that discipline that year. She has coached numerous state, regional and national medalists on the artistic side in her career.
Prior to PPG, Alie was an assistant team coach for World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas, the training home of 2016 Olympic Champion Simone Biles. She worked with a group of Level 7s through elite, coaching multiple state and regional champions and Westerns qualifiers.
Before moving to World Champions Centre, Alie was the owner and operator of Wildcard Gymnastics in Brookfield, Wis. She was the head coach of all levels of the girls' team and assisted with other competitive teams. At its highest, Wildcard had more than 120 team members. She was the coach of numerous state champions and regional qualifiers and medalists.
Alie was also the head coach at Milwaukee Turners in Milwaukee.
Alie has three children, all active in gymnastics. Her oldest, Hallie, 19, competed seven seasons as a Level 10, winning the NGA National Championship in her final meet. She is a member of the the Acro and Tumbling team at Quinnipiac University. Her middle child, Bradyn, 16, is Level 10 in artistic and is also a competitive T&T and acro athlete. She was state Level 8 double mini and trampoline champion in 2021 and a national acro qualifier each of the last four seasons.
Her youngest, West, 14, competes in both T&T and artistic. He is an elite-level athlete in trampoline, double mini and tumbling and was a part of Team USA's 2022 World Age Group Championships team. He was the 2022 World Champion on Double Mini Trampoline for 13-14 year old men. He also took floor (3rd) and vault (2nd) medals at the 2022 USAG Eastern National Championships. He is the 2021 NGA National Level 8 champion and is a member of that organization's Premier Team.
He has won state all-around titles in both Level 4 and Level 5, state event and regional titles in Level 6 and state event titles in Level 7. In T&T, he has won 16 state titles, 10 regional titles and won the Level 7 national trampoline and Level 7 national double mini championship in 2016 and the Level 9 double mini national championship in 2017. In all, he has 56 first-place finishes at USAG state, regional or national events or FIG World events in his nine competitive years, including national titles on elite synchronized trampoline and Level 10 tumbling.
BLAIN FOWLER
Assistant Girls' Team Coach
Head Boys' Team Coach
T&T Team Head Coach
Blain is in his 16th year of coaching gymnastics, having successfully coached all levels and all disciplines of team.
In his seventh season with Panhandle Perfection, Blain coached a T&T member to a World Championship on Double Mini Trampoline in 2022 and many national-level medals in T&T and artistic gymnastics.
Prior to PPG, Blain was the head Trampoline and Tumbling coach at World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas. In the club's first season competing T&T in 2016, all seven WCC athletes qualified to nationals. WCC athletes won five state titles, three regional titles and two USA Gymnastics national titles in his lone season as its head coach. At WCC, Blain also assisted with the girls' and boys' teams, helping guide one of WCC's seven boys' members to a state all-around title.
Before moving to World Champions Centre, Blain was the owner and operator of Wildcard Gymnastics in Brookfield, Wis. He was the assistant coach of both the boys' and girls' teams and started the T&T program. He had multiple state champions and regional medalists in all three programs at Wildcard.
In all, Blain has coached athletes to three T&T national championships and T&T and gymnastics athletes to numerous regional and state medals. He is currently coaching elite level athletes in T&T.
Blain has also served as a Director of Marketing at the University of Wisconsin and a high school athletic director in Wisconsin and an NCAA athletics administrator. He directed the 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball 1st and 2nd Rounds in Milwaukee and was the meet director of the 2013 Wisconsin Level 2 State Championships and 2014 Wisconsin Level 6-10 State Championships. He was named 2014 State Contributor-of-the-Year by Wisconsin USAG.
Blain has three children, all active in gymnastics. Her oldest, Hallie, 19, competed seven seasons as a Level 10, winning the NGA National Championship in her final meet. She is a member of the the Acro and Tumbling team at Quinnipiac University. Her middle child, Bradyn, 16, is Level 10 in artistic and is also a competitive T&T and acro athlete. She was state Level 8 double mini and trampoline champion in 2021 and a national acro qualifier each of the last four seasons.
Her youngest, West, 14, competes in both T&T and artistic. He is an elite-level athlete in trampoline, double mini and tumbling and was a part of Team USA's 2022 World Age Group Championships team. He was the 2022 World Champion on Double Mini Trampoline for 13-14 year old men. He also took floor (3rd) and vault (2nd) medals at the 2022 USAG Eastern National Championships. He is the 2021 NGA National Level 8 champion and is a member of that organization's Premier Team.
He has won state all-around titles in both Level 4 and Level 5, state event and regional titles in Level 6 and state event titles in Level 7. In T&T, he has won 16 state titles, 10 regional titles and won the Level 7 national trampoline and Level 7 national double mini championship in 2016 and the Level 9 double mini national championship in 2017. In all, he has 56 first-place finishes at USAG state, regional or national events or FIG World events in his nine competitive years, including national titles on elite synchronized trampoline and Level 10 tumbling.