{"id":1820,"date":"2026-06-30T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:50:26","slug":"an-olympic-gold-medalist-is-expanding-her-chain-of-gymnastics-academies-to-south-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"An Olympic gold medalist is expanding her chain of gymnastics academies to South Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes will expand her chain of gymnastics academies to Mount Laurel in September. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1818\">Source: Flyers to bring back forward Carl Grundstr\u00f6m on a one-year deal<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The South Jersey location, at 1180 Nixon Drive in the East Gate Square shopping center, is the first effort in Dawes\u2019 planned expansion into the Philadelphia area. She plans to open five or six additional gyms in the coming years, according to Philadelphia Business Journal. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Along with the Mount Laurel location, Dawes, who\u2019s from Silver Spring, Md., also is opening a second location in the Houston area in August. Her first academy opened in Clarksburg, Md., in July 2020, and there currently are six locations across Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and Texas.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Dawes is a three-time Olympian who competed at the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Games. She made history as the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in gymnastics with a bronze medal on the floor exercise in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. She also helped win team gold at those same 1996 Games when her teammate Kerri Strug famously completed her vault exercise on an injured ankle. The \u201cMagnificent Seven\u201d was the first United States women\u2019s gymnastics team to win a team gold at the Olympics. Dawes also won team bronze in 1992 in Barcelona and 2000 in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1816\">\u2018You just feel proud\u2019: Ecuadorians in Philadelphia find respite during World Cup celebrations<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78hf2wEAEBc?feature=oembed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0;\" title=\"Best of the Magnificent Seven | Olympic Games Week | NBC Sports\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Now a mother of four, Dawes has spoken publicly about the toxicity she endured during her career and how she doesn\u2019t want her children \u2014 or any other children \u2014 to experience the same. Instead, she hopes to redefine the culture of the sport through her string of academies that have an estimated 7,000 students ranging from toddlers to 18-year-olds. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to do things differently,\u201d Dawes said in an interview with Capital B Atlanta. \u201cIt means nothing if your child is a great gymnast \u2014 standing on top of the podium \u2014 but yet, their self-esteem is shot, their mental health is shot, and they don\u2019t know how to make relationships in this world. I believe that if that is the outcome, then we\u2019ve failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Plans for expansion into the Philly area don\u2019t include specifics on locations yet, but the Philadelphia Business Journal reported that proximity to families is a large factor in Dawes finding spaces for the gyms. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1814\">The Flyers believe they have a \u2018unicorn\u2019 in Maksim Sokolovskii: \u2018He\u2019s 6-foot-8, and he skates like he\u2019s 5-foot-8\u2032<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawes made history as the first Black American woman to win an individual medal in Olympic gymnastics. 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