Meet the Fort Wayne GCD Team

A Fort Wayne native, who has been cheering most of her life. 

Maddie has over 15 years of cheer experience cheering on competitive teams, and is currently the head coach at Carroll High School. 

She also attended Purdue Fort Wayne, majoring in Elementary Education and enjoyed being an PFW cheerleader while not studying. Cheerleading and working with kids is her true passion in life.

Maddie is excited to work side by side with the Glitter instructors, ensuring that GCD class run smoothly, recruiting more instructors to join our team, as well as spending her summer days at GCD summer camp.

Maddie enjoys spending most of her time with her fiancé, Sam, her close knit family, and hanging out at the lake.

Let’s all welcome Maddie to her new role at GCD!

Emari was born and raised in Marion, IN and always aspired to be a dancer. Emari has over 10 years of cheer experience and cheered for IPFW from 2016-2019.

Emari also has 4 years of dance training and has completed her second year of being a professional dancer with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.

Emari also graduated with a bachelors degree in Business Administration from Indiana University and has been with GCD for the past 6 years.

She spends most of her time being creative, thinking of super fun, crowd pleasing choreography for the Glitter Girls to perform 

throughout the year! 

Emari will take the lead in our new off-site classes, working with the intermediate and advanced teams. 

Emari loves the simple things in life, cozying up on the couch, eating popcorn, and watching Disney movies.

Let’s all warmly welcome Emari to her new role at GCD!