DEVEAU’S SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS 9032 Technology Drive Fishers, IN 317-849-7744 deveaus.com
DEVEAU’S SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS education teacher before founding DeVeau’s. Preschool classes focus on gross and fine motor skills, reading readiness, and teaching children how to share and wait for one’s turn. She notes that for many kids, the gymnastics school is their first experience being around other children in a classroom setting. This is especially true throughout the past year due to school closures. “We believe gymnastics is the foundation to any sport for whatever your child may want to do later in life,” DeVeau says. “It’s also great for general health and cognitive functioning.” Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photography Provided by Megan Wright & Media Fuel
DeVeau’s School of Gymnastics has been a staple in the area since 1982. Throughout the past 39 years they have expanded twice, and now they have more than 60,000 square feet for classes, team programs, camps and activities.
DeVeau’s puts a focus on gross motor skills that kids may not otherwise be getting help with, due to sedentary day-to-day lifestyles in front of screens and tablets.
The company teaches preschool kids how to skip, hop, gallop, jump and, in a roundabout way, fall properly. When DeVeau’s son was 3 years old, he tripped on his Superman cape when he was going down the stairs. Instead of falling forward and extending his arm, “What makes us special is that we offer he instinctively ducked his head and rolled something for every child in the family, from forward all the way down the stairs, landing babies and school-aged children all the way on his bottom. through high school,” says Taryn DeVeau, owner and instructor. “He was totally fine, but had he not had that kind of instinct, who knows?” she says. The preschool program was developed by her mother Joan, who was a physical 6 / 2021 DIRECTORY AND RELOCATION GUIDE
DeVeau’s also offers recreational programs for all ages, including girls and boys gymnastics classes, tumbling classes, cheerleading classes, and Ninja Zone classes. In girls gymnastics, when students are bouncing on trampolines, they’re learning patterning and sequencing, which is critical for math and reading. “They’re learning how to pattern and sequence with their bodies instead of on a piece of paper,” DeVeau says. “Doing tuck jumps, straddle jumps, seat drops remembering that pattern and then applying it is a fun way to learn.” Through the years, their gymnastics team program - the largest in the state - has placed dozens of male and female athletes with college scholarships. They’ve trained Samantha Peszek, who started training at DeVeau’s at age 2, made the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, and earned a full scholarship to UCLA where she was an NCAA champion. “We’re such a community here,” DeVeau says. “In fact, many of our staff have trained here, gone on to college and come back to coach, because this is what they love and where they love to be.” The Ninja Zone program, with its rigs, trampolines, warp walls and obstacle
