BADGER GYMNASTICS ACADEMY
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Badger Gymnastics Academy provides children of all ages and abilities with gymnastics instruction, from workshops for competitive high school gymnasts to lessons for wobbly toddlers. “We want to make it affordable, and we want to provide a clean, fun and safe environment for all kids to give gymnastics a try,” Carlson said. Carlson’s father and his business partner started Badger Gymnastics in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1979. The business was sold a few times, and Carlson took over in 2009. “We had met a lot of families that lived in the town of Waunakee that were coming to our Madison location, and they kept mentioning that Waunakee would be a great place to have a loca- tion, that a lot of families there would love it,” Carlson said. Badger Gymnastics first expanded to the town of Oregon, Wisconsin, taking over an old dance studio. After that, Carlson found the confidence to open a location in Properties’ business park. “When I saw there were common things, like a dance studio, right beside a major restaurant called Culver’s … I thought this would be a really good space,” Carlson recalled. In June 2014, Badger Gymnastics moved into Waunakee Business Center II. The next summer, Badger Gymnastics moved to a larger space in the business park’s Waunakee. While driving around Waunakee, she noticed a St. John
Gymnasts are some of the world’s most powerful athletes. Even very young gymnasts learn to pull up on the uneven or parallel bars, to run full speed toward the vault, to perform impressive acro- batics. But gymnastics teaches more than that. “Gymnastics is great, and it’s fun, and it’s good for you, but it teaches you other things — like how to not give up when things get hard,” said Jessie Carlson, owner of Badger Gymnastics Academy.
Badger Gymnastics first expanded to the town of Oregon, Wisconsin, taking over an old dance studio.
new building. The build-out for the new location required a large open space, offices, changing rooms and observation space. “St. John and Greg Fax and his crew were willing to really listen to the requests and requirements that I had and were able to make it happen,” Carlson said. This summer, Badger Gymnastics has already knocked down another wall to add more space. “Essentially, each year, we’ve grown. We’ve been able to grow within the St. John’s property,” Carlson said. “They’ve created an opportunity for us to do that.”
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