Meet the Team

Building Healthy, Confident Kids Through Movement

leadership

Where Confidence Soars Begins Here

All decisions made by this company are based on one simple question…What’s best for the kids?

Beth Morphis

Co-Owner & President

Beth Morphis

Co-Owner & President

Beth has been flipping all of her life! She also danced and acted in her early days until she landed a spot on the first gymnastics team in Winston-Salem. Her love of the sport inspired her parents to open Salem Gymnastics Center in 1980 where she continued to teach and compete in gymnastics. This led her to a full gymnastics scholarship at Illinois State University. Fate dealt an interesting blow during the fall semester of her freshman year. Beth suffered a torn ACL after a fall on the uneven bars - unfortunately, the injury required reconstructive knee surgery. She spent the next four months in a full leg cast, six months on crutches and two years in rehab. She learned many things during this time, including both patience and a giant swing on bars, in which she was the first ISU gymnast to compete. After college, Beth came back home and along with her parents and husband, began running the family business. She has been a long-time NC-USAG Board Member and a speaker at both USAG State and Regional Congresses, SwimConsultant seminars and was an integral part of USAIGC Nationals from 1989-2001. Additionally, she is the Founder GymStart, serves in lay leadership at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and loves to travel and listen to Jackson Browne. Beth is married to Kenny Morphis and has two awesome children, Jon and Alex. She loves working at Salem with her husband, father and son and feels very fortunate to have a job she looks forward to going to every day. Her hope is that the lives she touches will take the lessons learned and continue on to greatness wherever they go.

Frank Minter

Co-Owner & President Emeritus

Frank Minter

Co-Owner & President Emeritus

In 1980 Frank saw a need for a high-level gymnastics training center in Winston-Salem and as such was instrumental in starting Salem Gymnastics. Frank earned an engineering degree from NC State and an MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill. For most of his working career, he was a representative for IBM located in Winston-Salem. Frank is well-traveled and enjoys scuba diving, spending time with his grandchildren and driving his Mini Cooper. He loves to see children enjoy exercising and going home sweating and smiling!

Susan Loper

Co-Owner & Vice President

Susan Loper

Co-Owner & Vice President

Susan is the sister of Beth Morphis and grew up doing gymnastics and dance. She enjoyed competing on the gymnastics team from age 6 to 16, then found that she enjoyed coaching and teaching others even more. She coached gymnastics through her college years, then went on to teach school. She holds a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood education and has taught pre-K and kindergarten for 23 years, in many different schools around the southeast. She has lived in 4 different states (NC, GA, AL and TN)! Now she enjoys working in the family business at Salem Gymnastics & Swim. She is the mother of 3 young adults and has been married for more than 30 years. She moved back to Winston-Salem in 2021 and in addition to her role at the gym, she is currently leading seminars at Salem and around the community to help our children and their families be the best they can be.

Adrienne Beauchamp

Director of Operations

Adrienne Beauchamp

Director of Operations

Born and raised in Winston-Salem, Adrienne was a competitive swimmer and diver from childhood into high school. After high school, she attended St. Mary’s College in Raleigh and completed her college education at Appalachian State University. Following her college years, Adrienne immediately entered the world of business where she worked for Republic Mortgage Insurance Company until she decided to stay at home with her children.

After some time at home, she worked with Monkee’s Franchising, LLC where she was the Vice President of Operations. Between careers, when Salem opened the Swim School, Adrienne re-connected with her love of the water and taught swim lessons at Salem!

She also has her own company, Encore Retail Consulting. Adrienne remains involved in her church and enjoys spending time at the lake with her husband William and children, Will and Maggie. She is very active in mentoring local business owners through the Forsyth Technical Community College Small Business Center. Adrienne is very passionate about business success, customer service, relationships and youth sports and fitness!

Charlene DeVito

Executive Administrator and Director of Camps/Special Events

Charlene DeVito

Executive Administrator and Director of Camps/Special Events

Originally from upstate New York, Charlene was a competitive gymnast under the direction of former Russian National Gold Medalist Yury Tsykun and studied dance at numerous dance studios for most of her childhood. After college, she was the gymnastics and dance director for the Albany YMCA for ten years before moving to North Carolina and her current home at Salem Gymnastics. Over the years Charlene has coached numerous State, Regional and National Gymnasts and Dancers.

She currently is the Executive Administrator of Salem and is the Director of Camps, Parties & Special Events. Charlene lives in Clemmons with her husband Jeff and is the mom of Coby and Gracie.

Beth-Anne Brown

Business Office Manager

Beth-Anne Brown

Business Office Manager

Beth-Anne started at Salem in 2002 as a manager and teacher for Karate International. She received her 1st Degree Black Belt in 1999 and is currently a 3rd degree Black Belt. She began working in the Salem office in 2006.

Working for Salem was a natural transition considering she has had a child involved in every aspect of the Gym at one time or another. Her son, Dalton, got his Black Belt at Salem and was on Salem’s Cheer Extreme Co-ed team. Her daughter, Devin, was on the Salem Dance Team and has worked in the office as well as teaching dance and camps at Salem. Her daughter, Dani, was on Salem’s Gymnastics Team and is currently a gymnastics instructor.

Beth-Anne has been married to David Brown for over 30 years and loves working with the public.

Jeff DeVito

Rec Gym Head Coach/Director

Jeff DeVito

Rec Gym Head Coach/Director

“Mr. Jeff” is from upstate New York and moved to North Carolina for college, golf, and his love for the Tarheels. If someone had told Jeff when he was growing up that he would end up being a gymnastics coach, he would have told them that they were crazy. However, in 1991 Jeff took a summer job at Salem “flipping kids” and has never looked back. “I’m very happy that I took that job because I love coaching and I look forward to going to work every day.”

Jeff does a little of everything at the gym, serving as Head Coach for the Gymnastics program, Tumbleweed teacher, Team Coach, head of Buildings & Grounds, and anything else that is needed. He is also in charge of staff training – “it's fun to pass on what I have learned to new staff members.”

Over the years Jeff has been a speaker at NC State clinics and always draws a crowd. Jeff is married to Ms. Charlene who also works at Salem and has two children, Coby (a UNC-CH grad!) and Gracie.

David Matthew Flack

Rec Gymnastics Assistant Director

David Matthew Flack

Rec Gymnastics Assistant Director

David Matthew (Coach DM to the kids) grew up in Ohio and moved to North Carolina in 2019 to be closer to his girlfriend, Candace. David Matthew and Candace were recently married and are enjoying living and working in Winston Salem. He loves working with children and is passionate about teaching gymnastics.

Chris Young

Boys' Team Head Coach

Chris Young

Boys' Team Head Coach

Chris started gymnastics right here at Salem Gymnastics when he was 9½ years old. He trained at Salem with his longtime coach and mentor, Bob Kohut, through high school, becoming a back-to-back National Vault Champion in 1991-1992.

Chris attended the University of Minnesota, then came back to North Carolina to train again with Bob to chase his dream of becoming an Olympian. In 1997 Chris moved to the Olympic Training Center where he became a National Team member. He went on to compete for the USA Men’s National Team in the Pan-American Games where the team won the Silver Medal.

Next, Chris earned a spot on the 1999 World Championship Team that took 6th in the world, helping the USA to qualify for the 2000 Olympic Games. An achilles tear in January 2000 stopped his Olympic dream from coming to fruition, however, he did compete at the 2000 Olympic Trails. Chris has coached boys' gymnastics ever since then, and now he is back where it all started.

Chris’ dream is to help the boys that he coaches become strong men in their community. He is married to Salem coach Arien, and has four children: C.J., Christiana, Skylar and Layton.

Arien Young

Girls' Team Assistant Coach

Arien Young

Girls' Team Assistant Coach

Arien is originally from Beaufort, N.C. and has spent most of her life dedicated to the sport of gymnastics. She was coached by Mike Underwood through USAG Level 10 and was a member of the 2002 Region 8 JO National Team. Arien continued her gymnastics career at North Carolina State University where she specialized on balance beam.

In her sophomore year, she suffered an ankle injury that prevented her from competing for two seasons. It was during this time that she fell more in love with coaching and motivating her teammates. This time helped shaped her into the coach that she is today.

Upon graduating from N.C. State with an Undergrad in Sports Management she decided to move to the Winston-Salem area where she got to work with and learn from her club gymnastics coach, Mike. Fast forward 12 years later, she has had coaching success at the State and Regional level and is eager and excited to create young and well-balanced gymnasts.

Arien and her husband, Chris Young were married in June of 2013 and they have two young boys, Skylar and Layton. They hope to continue to spread the joys of gymnastics and encourage the youth in our community!

Dani Brown

Rec Gym Special Events Coordinator

Dani Brown

Rec Gym Special Events Coordinator

Dani has been involved at Salem most of her life. She started at age 3 in the Little Dragon martial arts program at Salem. After achieving the rank of Green Belt at age 7, she switched to gymnastics where she quickly moved up the ranks, joining the USAG team and competing through Level 5. At Reagan High School she was a Varsity Cheerleader and Captain.

She began volunteer coaching at Salem when she was 14 and worked throughout high school and into college. She moved to Charlotte where she continued to coach gymnastics and then returned home to the Salem staff with more than 10 years’ of coaching experience.

Alexis Demmitt

Swim School Director

Alexis Demmitt

Swim School Director

Alexis began swimming as a young child when her family became members of the local pool. She loved it and quickly became one of their most frequent attendees. She continued to swim through the years, and with her high school in Provo, Utah. In college, at Utah Valley University, she pursued her goal of becoming an elementary school teacher and spent a year working in a kindergarten classroom, loving every minute.

Her school career was put on hold when she had a baby girl of her own. She now has two beautiful girls who have attended both gymnastics and swim at Salem Gym. Alexis’ love of teaching and children has kept her in the classroom working in local preschools. She is excited about this opportunity to broaden her teaching horizons and work more with kids.

Ms. Keri

Aquatics Director

Ms. Keri

Aquatics Director

She has managed the Boys’ Varsity Swim Team in between swim seasons. Always being around water, whether it was at the beach surfing or in the pool, she knows the importance of the ability to swim. At the age of 15, she became a lifeguard and trained swim instructor.

After Graduation, the need to teach swimming continued and Keri spent over 15 years teaching swimming to everyone 6 months to adults. After a few years off to raise her family, she is back to teaching swimming at Salem.

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