Proud Coach

Adam has been coaching acrobatic and circus arts around the US since 2009. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Circus Educators Association from 2013-2018 as the chair of the safety committee. He joined the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts in 2015 as the Head Coach/Programs Director and worked over five years to double the size of the youth program. From 2017-2020 he worked as the Aerial Department Head for Circadium School of Contemporary Circus, the first professional training program in the US to be recognized by both a state-board-of-education and the FEDEC (Federation of European professional circus schools). Adam is committed to the idea that elite-level achievement does not require harmful or exclusionary teaching practices. He received his MSC at the University of Manitoba, where he researched physical literacy, movement creativity, pedagogy, and the effects of circus arts in public school PE on students' emotions and self-esteem.