Houston Gymnastics Club

Tim Erwin, Gymnastics Director

Tim has been coaching and/or directing gymnastics for more than 30+ years. He has been fortunate enough to coach many of the highest ranked Junior Gymnasts in the United States. One of which went on to become an Olympic Team Member. In addition, Tim has traveled as a representative of the USA Gymnastics Federation Coach with gymnasts and teams to Russia and Japan. He formally served as a Jr. National Team Coach (6 years), a Junior Olympic Program Committee Member (3 years), the Texas State Chairman (9 years), and currently is on the Texas State Committee and is the treasurer of Texas State Sims Scholarship Committee. Tim is a former gymnast, and competed on two Illinois High School State Championship Teams. He has directed and coached at the JCC's Houston Gymnastics Club for 21 years. Tim has directed invitationals in Houston for 18 years, and the Houston National Invitational for 16 years. In addition, he is the Meet Director for the 2005 USA Gymnastics Men's Junior Olympic National Championships

Roumen Yordanov , Men's Head Coach

Roumen comes to our Houston Gymnastics Club with an extensive background in gymnastics both as a competitor and coach. He was a 1980 and 1984 Olympic Team Member for Bulgaria and was a four-time World Championships Team Member.He has been coaching in Houston for the last 12 years and has developed National, Regional and State Champions in Men's gymnastics. Roumen brings to us extensive knowledge and a great repore with our team and recreational participants. He is a “hands on” coach that will give all our gymnasts special attention and training time. Please join us in welcoming him to our program.

Alexander comes to the HGC Program with a wealth of experience coaching at the World and Elite Levels of both Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics. He has trained some of the World’s best gymnasts including: Svetlana Boguinskaya (World and Olympic Champion), Oksana Chusovitina, Tatiana Gutsu, Dimitry Bilozerchev (Olympic and World Champion), and Valentin Mogilny to name a few. In Houston he has trained some of the top elites in the world including: Carly Patterson (Olympic Champion), Dominique Moceanu (Olympic Champion Team), Kim Zmeskal and Mohini Bhardwaj.
The list goes on and on and we are extremely proud to have Alexander as a part of our staff.

Deliana competed in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea and Barcelona, Spain. She placed fourth on the Floor Exercise in Seoul and the Bulgarian National Team for which she competed placed fifth respectively. Dee has an extensive background in physical education and coaching, and received her Bachelor Degree from the National Sports Academy in Sofia.
She has coached in the Houston area for more than 5 years and has trained many successful gymnast that competed in the National, Regional and State Championships.
We are extremely excited to Dee as part of our prestigious and experienced coaching staff.

Adam also came to us from a Head Coaching position in South Carolina, and is a former member of NCAA Championship Team Penn State University where he was on a full gymnastics scholarship and voted team captain. In addition he was a former Jr. National Team Member and has an extensive background in progressive coaching and spotting techniques.
In addition he was a two-time NCAA All American at Penn State. He has been coaching for 5 years and coaches boys, as well as, girls gymnastics. Adam brings not only a wealth of knowledge and experience to our staff, but a great positive style to coaching that shows his enthusiasm and love of the sport.

Shannon is a former elite gymnast and attended the University of Missouri on a Full Gymnastics Scholarship. She was a four-time varsity letter winner on MU holds the MU Big 12 Beam record. She was the former Head Coach at Terry and Don’s Gymnastics in South Carolina and also brings to HGC a strong background not only in gymnastics but in choreography and cutting music for Floor Exercise Routines.
We are overjoyed to have Shannon as part of our Elite Team of Coaches, we expect her to be an integral part high quality program.

Vassil began working for HGC in 2004 and been coaching in the Houston area for more than 12 years. He has coached or assisted with the development of many state, regional and national champions in men’s Gymnastics.
His international experience in judging and competition also adds greatly to our coaching staff. He has judged competitions at two Olympic Games and also at the World Championships. He was a member of the Bulgarian National team for many years, and was awarded the title of "Master of Sport”. He was General Secretary of the Bulgarian Gymnastics Federation and under his leadership his teams have won many medals and titles. We are very fortunate to have Vassil on our staff.

Ed Karacek, a native Bostonian, moved to Houston in 1973. After graduating from Northeastern University, he took a job as a physical education teacher with the Houston Independent School District and retired after 30 years of teaching. During his career, he was the gymnastics specialist for 22 years at Welch Middle School. He has coached part time at the Jewish Community Center for the past 16 years, working with "tiny tots," thru teens and adults. He is currently working with pre-team level 4 students as well as working with students in the summer and winter camp programs. He believes that Gymnastics is an "I Can Do It" sport. It requires strength, agility, flexibility, coordination, and most importantly promotes good self esteem.