Boca Extreme Cheer Company

Owner

Coach/Tumbling Instructor/Choreographer

 

Mayra Brandt has been involved with cheerleading and gymnastics for over 20 years. She was a gymnast growing up and transferred to cheerleading in high school. She cheered competitively at the high school, all-star and college level. Mayra has coached and done choreography for numerous high schools and all-star teams in the area and coaches tumbling classes, cheerleading classes, team and private lessons at Boca Extreme Cheer Company. She is the proud mom of T.J. (3) and Layla and is EXTREMEly excited to share her passion for cheerleading and tumbling to all athletes that come in the gym.

 

Coach/Tumbling Instructor/Choreographer

 

Cheerleading has been a huge part of Shari Goodman’s life for over ten years. Always having such high energy, you can tell she truly has a passion for this sport. She has been with Boca Extreme from the very beginning, cheering on the team for the first two years. She also assisted in coaching the pee-wee hip-hop as well as dancing on senior hip hop team. Shari was a former member of Spanish River High school’s co-ed cheerleading team, as head choreographer and captain. She has choreographed and worked with several middle and high school teams in South Florida. Currently, she is head coach for our National Champion Junior Level 2 team. Shari instructs all of our tumbling and cheerleading classes, birthday parties, camps, and also does private lessons. When she is not coaching, you can find her at the gym taking our hip hop classes or working on her tumbling.

 

 

Hip Hop Dance Instructor/Choreographer

 

Stacy Allison is a 2006 graduate of the University of Florida. She has trained in all areas of dance since the age of three including; ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, and hip-hop.  At the age of seven, she began competing locally and later nationally. Dance has taken her to New York, Las Vegas, and California. She has performed several times at Disney and trained at both “Broadway Dance Center” in New York and “Millennium Dance Complex” in California. Along with training under such names as Wade Robson, Darrin Henson, Fatima Robinson, Tina Landon, Dave Scott, Cris Judd and Marty Kudelka, she has choreographed for Pit Bull, performed at the BET Awards with B2K, and appeared in “You Got Served”. While attending college on a scholarship, she noticed a lack of hip-hop in Gainesville. Over the next three years, she created and developed a dance group which performed locally and grew to over 200 participants over the years. Now back in South Florida, Stacy comes to Boca Extreme Cheer Company with a passion for dance that will catapult our hip hop dance program.

 

 

Tumbling Instructor

 

Jay Eisen is originally from Peekskill, New York and is a student at Lynn University. Jay is majoring in Graphic Design with a minor in Business. Jay was a gymnast for the better part of fifteen years. His senior year of high school, he placed 23rd in the country. After considering college, he turned down scholarships to NCAA division one schools because of life-changing injuries. He now teaches the skills he has mastered in his years of performance. Prior to Boca Extreme, Jay participated in an elite camp called International Gymnastics Camp (IGC) which is world known for its training of staff and success of students in the field of gymnastics. He looks forward to teaching tumbling classes to the athletes of Boca Extreme Cheer Company and we are lucky to have him.

 

Coach/Choreographer

 

Christine DonFrancesco began cheering in high school under the instruction of Mayra Brandt at Pope John Paul II High School in Boca Raton.  After competing with Pope, she went on to help establish the competitive cheer program at the University of Florida, where she served as the organization's President and choreographer until departing for Washington, DC in 2005.  At The George Washington University, Christine competed with the nationally ranked co-ed cheerleading team and went on to coach and choreograph for local high schools, colleges, recreational teams, and all star programs until her return to Florida in 2009.  She is currently a teacher and the Head Coach of the Bobcat Dance Team at Boca Raton High School and continues to do choreography for local schools. We are so happy to add Christine to our list of amazing coaches and choreographers.