TRIumph Gymnastics — Local services in Cary

First, let me start with the positive. My daughter’s coach is amazing. She’s been with her for a few years now and absolutely adores her. My daughter had been with Triumph for nearly seven years, and her experience with all of her coaches has always been outstanding.

I’m writing this review because of our recent experience signing up our daughter to try out for the Stars team, which she was a part of last year. The Stars program is supposed to be a fun, lower-commitment way to prepare gymnasts for more competitive teams. Unfortunately, when we attempted to sign up, we were told that tryouts were already full.

After several back-and-forth emails with different staff members, we learned there was nothing they could do. There wasn’t even a waiting list just in case they had no-shows. My daughter was heartbroken. She loved the low-pressure, competitive environment and the excitement of going to meets. She was so disappointed that she was willing to leave her long-time coach and explore other gyms in the area.

We decided to check out SGA in Morrisville, and it turned out to be a beautiful facility. We spoke with the staff and learned they have an AAU team, which offers a similar lower-pressure competitive experience. The head AAU coach told us that our daughter could come back in a couple of hours for a one-on-one tryout that same evening! Her face lit up like it was her birthday. We came back, she tried out, and she was offered a spot on the team that night. Two days later, she attended her first class.

How impressive is that? My daughter had both her tryout and her first class before the Triumph Stars team even held their tryouts. We even met another family whose daughter could not attend the Stars tryout and made the same move we did.

We’ve now been with SGA for a week, and the experience so far has been wonderful. It’s clear that SGA has things organized so that there’s room for every child who wants to compete. I don’t understand why Triumph hasn’t found a way to do the same. The first come, first serve response to their call for tryouts email is not a satisfactory way to run things in our mind. They’ve lost at least two girls recently because of this and likely others before us.

Parents should know that your child may not be given the opportunity to try out, even if they’ve been enrolled in the gym for several years, 7 in our case, and part of the Stars...

We came from another gym which doesn't hold a candle to Triumph. We have also done trial classes at several others. Triumph takes the cake. Here's why: each and every coach gives the students in their class their undivided attention. I found the coaches to role model discipline (in a self control and focus sense) and hard work. The athletes, even the young ones want to work hard because their coaches are working hard right there with them. The coaches demonstrate how stretches, exercises, and skills are done. Then when needed, they give each student constructive critiques to help them get it right. At Triumph, it isn't about filling the time, excessive water breaks, nor squeezing in as many reps as possible. Rather, it's about focus, strength, coordination, and technique. They would rather you do it 10 times correctly, even slowly, than 25 times at half effort or improper form. This all makes sense though because the owner is a medical doctor of chiropractics, and it shows. Not only are the athletes trained properly, COVID protocol is taken seriously. The coaches use a 'do as I do' approach, so the athletes naturally respect them. If you want your kids to run around playing to get energy out, this isn't the place for you. If you want your money and time's worth, and if you want your child to be trained rather than entertained, this IS the place for you!

What about the parents while the athletes train? Triumph has large tables and wifi for parents and/or students to bring in laptops and get their work done. If you need a bite to eat or to squeeze in grocery shopping, those places are located in the same parking lot.

Triumph truly has something for everybody. They offer classes from as young as walking toddlers all the way up through adults. I'm so thankful that our kids have this gym and their coaches in their lives for...

My 5yo started there over a year ago and the coach was great. He had fun, she showed him the new techniques and actually taught him. She left a while back. There were 3 preschool classes going on at the timeslot he was there and 2 of the 3 coaches always looked miserable every week. The new coaches don't really teach the kids, they just stand there and let them go through the stations however they want for the most part. Let me just say that I am under no illusions that my son will be an amazing gymnast, but if he is going to classes to be taught gymnastics, they should correct what he is doing wrong and help him do it right. It was in his routine so we just kept going even though we did not see him getting much out of it. Recently we were running behind and he missed the warm up for the first time since he started over a year ago and they would not let him participate. I nicely asked if they would allow him to participate because he never does this and the answer was a hard no. I a little bit of leniency would have been nice. He is only 5. That was our push to cancel our membership. I can't speak to the older kid classes, but for preschool maybe try some other places in the area first. We have been to bday parties at other places in the area and the staff was much nicer and the coaches were...