Jen Formanek
Owner and Head Coach, Gym Director
Jen has a total of 18 years experience coaching cheerleading at multiple levels and ages. She is passionate about cheer, not only for her love of the sport but because of the life lessons it instills in each of the athletes she coaches. She started Freedom Allstar Cheer in 2021 to help athletes in the Southern Tier reach their full potential. She is credentialed in Levels 1, 2 and 3 stunting and tumbling for All Star Cheer through USASF.
Brandon Bishop
Assistant Gym Director, Tumbling Director, Allstar Cheer Assistant Coach
Brandon has many years experience as a tumbling coach in North Carolina where our owner Jen is originally from as well. While she was the manager at an all star gym there, Brandon worked as a tumbling coach and summer camp staff as well as working with allstar teams and school teams to help them reach their full potential. He is an amazing teacher and has a way of reaching each athlete based on their goals and mindset. He is passionate about his craft and perfecting his own skills which makes him an asset and leader in this industry. We are blessed to have a tumbling coach with his knowledge of the sport. He is also coaches Vengeance, Revenge and Majesty this season. He had the opportunity three seasons ago to attend NCA Nationals and The Cheerleading Worlds with Core Athletics before they made the transition to Stingrays NY.
Leah Chamberlain
Allstar Cheer Coach.
Leah has been coaching for many years and has time as a CYO coach at which time she coached some of our Freedom Athletes at their early beginnings in cheer. She is excited to be in the gym working in any capacity and we are thankful to have her. She was a great addition to our staff last season with Dreamers so this year she was added as assistant coach to 3 additional teams. She is eager to get to work on her credentials this summer! She is the head coach for Dreamers and coaches Legacy, Legends, Revenge and Vengeance.
Skylar Flanagan
Assistant Gym Manager, Allstar Cheer Coach and Tumbling Coach
Skylar attended Chenango Forks High School in Broome County. She had spent 10 + years in gymnastics training and in her sophomore year she made the varsity cheer team and found her passion for the sport of cheer. She joined a Freedom Allstar Cheer tumbling class as a way to continue doing what she loved after graduating. In the spring of 2024, Skylar completed her internship through Suny Broome with our program and we hired her as as soon as the internship ended! She has been an amazing addtion to our staff! She is the head coach for Belles, Legacy and Sovereignty and coaches Revenge, Vengeance and Majesty.
Brynn Vinsevich
Allstar Cheer Assistant Coach and Class Instructor
Hayden Swan
Allstar Cheer Assistant Coach
