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11/01/2025: I’m not sure I adequately can express my heart-felt gratitude and appreciation for being voted the Family Favorite in 4 categories in/around the Birmingham and surrounding area:

⭐️ Favorite Gymnastics Program (2nd year)
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Favorite Party Venue
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Favorite Homeschool/Co-Op
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Favorite Summer Camp Program

This marks 11 awards in the last two years, which seems unreal. My staff and I pour our hearts into those who bless us each day by coming to our gym, and it means the world to us that you value and appreciate us enough to vote us as Family Favorites in 4 wonderful categories.

Serving our community through individualized instruction, personal connections, relationships, and a shared love for our sports, activities, and education brings us enormous joy. It’s true we could serve more people if we made our classes bigger, but that would compromise the quality of our programs and relationships, which we value the most.

Understanding child development and the path of progress while guiding them through perseverance and teaching them how to be brave and face challenges so they can be their best gives them the confidence to do great things.

Sara Beth’s Gymnasts… where you discover yourself at any age. From recreation to competition for girls, boys, and adults, we welcome and support you! Thank YOU from the bottom of my heart!

07/01/2025: Sara Beth’s Gymnasts is the School & Sports section featured article in Shelby Living Magazine’s July/August issue. We appreciate the opportunity to be featured and share what we’re all about – fun, passion, confidence, leadership, mental and physical strength, happiness, well-balanced life, health and wellness, and opportunities for everyone ages walking through adults. Sara Beth’s Gymnasts is where you discover yourself with an award-winning team, positive support and encouragement, and a happy environment with a great culture. It’s never too late to discover yourself!

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School & Sports Featured Article

07/01/2025: We are honored to receive the award of Best Gymnastics Program in and around the Birmingham area. We are 2025’s Best of the ‘Ham Winner! Thank you so very much for your trust and support. We deeply value our relationships with everyone who comes to Sara Beth’s Gymnasts. Thank YOU for being the amazing people you are. Thank YOU for supporting a small family business created just for our community. Thank YOU for choosing us. We’ll never stop wanting to be the best for your family! We’re blessed beyond recognition.

06/05/2025: We have been bestowed the award of Best Sports Instruction Facilities in Alabama! My heart is overflowing. I am so incredibly humbled for Sara Beth’s Gymnasts to earn this recognition. 🏆 As many of you know, I, along with my amazing and caring staff, put our whole hearts into our time with each and every student. We truly want everyone to feel welcome and like it’s their home away from home. We value our relationships and appreciate our community choosing us to guide and enrich their children through fun and interactive learning ranging from gymnastics, 🤸🏼‍ cheer, 📣 tumbling, and ninja 🥷 classes to homeschool educational classes plus gymnastics, competitive and recreational, for adults and boys.

We may be small but we are living large connecting with each person and each family bringing opportunities to enhance and nurture their development, growth, and skills which equip them to take on all of life’s challenges and succeed beyond their wildest dreams whether it’s in our gym, in their sports and activities, in school, in their careers, in their personal lives, or anywhere else in between. These children are our future and our most precious investments.

We believe in you. It’s never too late to start. Just ask all of our adult gymnasts. We have 8 adults on our gymnastics team this year. Sara Beth’s Gymnasts, where you discover yourself at any age… Come blaze a trail with us, recipient of the Best Sports Instruction Facilities in Alabama according to the Guide to Alabama.

05/05/2025: It is an incredible honor to be recognized again as the Best Dance or Gymnastics Studio and Best Place for a Kid’s Birthday Party in Shelby Living’s BEST of the BEST 2025. We appreciate your trust, support, and friendship as we truly enjoy serving our community with quality personalized instruction, a clean and safe learning environment, fun, and confidence-boosting encouragement and enthusiasm. Thank YOU for selecting us as BEST of the BEST! We have amazing families we have the privilege of serving.

Sara Beth's Gymnasts has been selected as the Best Dance/Gymnastics Studio and Best Place for a Kid's Birthday Party two years in a row. Thank YOU for your support and selecting us as Best of the BEST.
Sara Beth’s Gymnasts is Best of the Best 2025!

07/01/2024: We are the Gymnastics Family Favorite in Birmingham Parent Magazine covering the Birmingham and surrounding area. Thank YOU for believing in and trusting us! Sara Beth is grateful to serve such a wonderful community of families. We are incredibly humbled by this collection of honors the community and organizations have bestowed upon us.

06/01/2024: We have been recognized as the BEST of Chelsea according to DistinguishedTeaching.com.

05/01/2024: We are Shelby County’s BEST of the BEST in two categories. We cannot thank you enough for believing and having trust in us to best serve your family!

03/01/2023: We are featured in the Women in Business section of 280 Living where Sara Beth discusses career opportunities and our pillars for success, team, new classes, how we’re different, and more. Read the article for details. Will be printed in July 2023 issue.

Some of our staff (from left): Shayla, Chloe, Grace, Sara Beth, Tatiana, and Ashlei

03/01/2023: Here’s a little information about our Summer Camp program. From small groups and personal attention to super fun games and activities, everyone loves summer camp at our gym! Check out 280 Living’s Q & A about our summer camps.

Happy Campers Enjoying Summer Camp

09/01/2022: We’re in the Educational Guide of 280 Living’s September issue on page A23. Read more about our competitive team, educational classes such as Spanish, and more about the benefits of gymnastics.

Team Camp Games at Sara Beth’s Gymnasts

07/01/2022: Look at the Women in Business section of 280 Living to read about us and Teaching life skills through gymnastics (Sara Beth’s Gymnasts).

Sara Beth with staff, pre-team, and team at summer practice

08/31/2021: Thank you, 280 Living, for our feature in your Education Guide. Read about gymnastics changes, Olympics, and Preschool Gymnastics.

Sara Beth (right) and Stephanie (left) spotting Zachary in his front handspring vault

07/30/2021: Thank you, Chelsea Living, for our On Stage Business feature.

05/01/2021: Thank you, 280 Living, for our feature in the Chelsea Business Spotlight section.

Chelsea Business Spotlight in 280 Living May 2021

04/19/2021: Inside Our Gym

Thank you, Video Visions, for putting together our online commercial for Chelsea Living. It’s great to show our community inside our gym!

01/01/2021: Women in Business

I appreciate the 280 Living newspaper sharing about our new gym, programs, events, and our passion as we help children be successful in and out of the gym.

08/2020: Thank you, Leah Ingram Eagle of 280 Living, for the article sharing about our new larger gym and surviving the start of the pandemic.

05/2020: I appreciate 280 Living sharing about our philosophy and new big gym in the Chelsea Business Spotlight section on Page A19.

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11/04/2019: Thank you, Chelsea Living, for your interest in Sara Beth’s Gymnasts. I enjoyed us being the featured business on your November segment at the 19 minute mark.

10/21/2019: I appreciate Video Visions producing our feature commercial for Chelsea Living.

05/21/2019: I appreciate Leah Ingram Eagle of 280 Living wanting to cover our gymnastics camps happening this summer.

04/24/2019: Chelsea Business Spotlight in 280 Living newspaper Page C13

01/03/2019: Thank you, Don and 280 Living, for the feature in the special Women in Business section.

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10/22/2018: I appreciate 280 Living publishing a short article about our new space, growth, and programs.

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10/02/2018: I appreciate Stephen with The Shelby County Reporter taking time to share about our new space.

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09/09/2018: Thank you, Leah with Chelsea Central, for sharing my story.

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01/22/2018: Here’s a short article in 280 Living’s newspaper about the owner and the new program.

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Sara Beth’s Gymnasts Featured in 280 Living Articles