Empire Gymnastics Center

This place is a rip off. $85 a month for 1 (30 min) class a week. There are multiple other gyms in town that have kids classes that are 3+ times a week for the same price. The coaches are not very nice and threatened to kick my 4 year old (who is very shy) out of the class multiple times. Not only did they do that, but would also talk bad about her to me while she was right there (she can understand everything). They say it's month to month, yet there is no way to cancel the membership online. You have to sign up online, but can't cancel online? They never answer the phone when I call to get info about cancelling. Then leave a VM saying a notice needs to be in writing (it's 2024). Sorry we are no longer paying to be verbally belittled and threatened to be kicked out of the program after each class. Thought about potentially signing up my daughter when she was a bit older, but I'll drive out of my way to find a more professional school. Avoid this place is my recommendation! Multiple bad reviews should have been a given!

Best gymnastics gym! We absolutely love the coaches and seeing how far our daughters come in the last year! She absolutely loves it!

I cannot say enough positive things about our experience at this gymnastics center. it was our first time and we decided to rent out the space for my son's fourth birthday. The staff were incredibly friendly and helpful and went out of their way to make sure we had an exceptional time. The kids had an absolute blast!! The pricing was completely appropriate and the center was incredibly clean! We will absolutely be celebrating future birthday parties here. Thank you so much for helping us create such wonderful memories for our son.

Our granddaughter attends empire. She absolutely loves it and Coach Tiff is amazing which makes the experience for her pleasant. Look forward to seeing her grow.

Been bringing my girls here for years, place is always so clean and the staff is so knowledgeable, friendly and really takes the time to get to know all the kiddos! Fully recommend.....actually can't say enough great things about them as they always go above and beyond to make it a great experience for my girls and bring out the best in them. Absolutely love being a part of the Empire Family!

Five stars for the coaching staff named below, one star for the owner, also named below.If you are thinking about checking out Empire, DO! It has excellent programs and the aforementioned five star coaches. Which is what makes writing the following so heartbreaking for me and, most of all, my eight year old daughter who has been so tragically impacted by this.Of the coaches: Sarah, Justin, Moriah, and Alaina, I have the highest regards. New coach Steph my daughter adores though I don't have any personal experience with yet, but I trust my daughter's judgement of her. It is with the owner, Mike, and one other coach who will remain nameless, that I have issue with.At the end of the season our daughter and a few other girls did not move up to the next level. While our daughter finished second overall at State, we understood there was no guarantee she would move up. But we wanted to understand more why she didn't so we met with two of the coaching staff. It was there that we learned our daughter's skills would be reassessed in a few months and she might be moved up then. That was all fine and well but we asked the staff not to tell our daughter so she wouldn't get her hopes up if she didn't get moved up, and they agreed they wouldn't. That was all okay, too. What WASN'T okay was the following: The coach who will remain nameless cited one of the reasons our daughter wouldn't move up was because she was concerned about her trauma background and her anxiety affecting her ability to perform at the higher level. WE know our daughter best, not that coach, and we know our daughter excels when she is challenged, NOT coddled by being held back. Discriminating against a child with a trauma background is not acceptable, even if in that coach's mind that wasn't her intent. The other thing that wasn't okay was that one of the coaches we like a lot brought up in front of our daughter that her aim was to get our daughter to the next level by end of summer. Now we know this coach and like her a LOT and know she really meant what she said, but clearly there was a lack of communication between the two coaches we met with who we asked to NOT bring up the possibility of advancement in front of our daughter and the other coach. This prompted us to then seek clarification on timelines since our daughter was asking, but now some of the coaching staff reported to Mike the owner that we were cornering them about it when we were the ones who DIDN'T want the possibility of advancement being brought up in front of our daughter in the first place. When Mike called us regarding this he at first came across very harsh with us rather than trying to understand all the details from both sides. He then told us that the teams as they had been drawn up were set and there would be no movement for any of the girls. If that's true, then why did three of the other coaches tell us there was a possibility of advancement?Mike said he would talk to his staff and get back to us. When he called back, his resolution to the situation was kicking our daughter off the team! Because we asked questions! And at no time were we rude to the coaches (again, who we highly respect), nor raise our voices. And our daughter paid the price.We are just stunned.July 9, 2024 update: We just learned someone at Empire is now trying to blacklist our daughter! Another gym we really liked and hoped to enroll our daughter in got back to us today and said, "After talking to Empire we have decided that your daughter is not a good fit for us." Are. You. Kidding me!!! All because we "dared" to ask questions, Empire is taking it out on our daughter now through OTHER gyms!

Empire Gymnastics is an absolutely phenomenal Gymnastics center. The owner Michael Carder is a phenomenal role model and instructor. Not only is he great at what he does but he expects all of his instructors to have those same standards. He pushes and encourages his athletes to work hard but in a positive way. They constantly strive to be better because they know if he believes in them they can believe in themselves! Our daughter has been going there since she was three and was very shy and petrified of men. Within 30 minutes of meeting Mike he became her favorite and he still is! He truly cares about the kids and isn't just in it for money when our daughter started struggling in the second grade with school and being in the gym four days a week he told us he would rather have her come to the gym less than to keep pushing her and have her get burnt out. He told us she had a natural talent and he would hate for her to not use that talent. that advice may have cost him money at the time but it gained lifelong customers and friends. We cannot say enough about Empire and we are so grateful to Mike and the entire team at Empire!

Empire has good classes. I can't recommend the team though. They kicked my daughter off the team because I asked to many questions. It's a huge bummer. I thought questions would be encouraged.

We can't say enough good things about this gym... Both of our sons were in the program with coach Tiffany and what an improvement we saw in each one over time. Unfortunately, we left only due to moving out of state. These gyms here in our new location don't even come close to the skill and training they provided for us. We will miss this place dearly. Thank you again Empire, and coach Tiffany!

We had our son's 6th birthday here, and there were about 40 kids. It was our first time ever setting foot in the center. All of the kids had a great time. We received several compliments from parents on how happy they were that the people running it were so good with the kids. They did a great job making sure everyone had fun while still keeping them safe. I absolutely would come back here again. It was one of the most memorable birthday parties we have had!