Coaches and Staff
Linda Mulvihill
Co-Founder/Director
Linda is a 3 time Olympic All Around Competitor (1964 Tokyo, 1968 Mexico, 1972 Munich) and was the first American woman gymnast to make the Olympic Event Finals. She is a 5 time National Elite All Around Champion (AAU and USGF) and spent 9 years on the National Team (2 World Championship Teams). She earned 7 Gold Medals at the Pan American Games and was a Collegiate All Around Champion, as well as USGF Gymnast of the Year.
Her first National title was on the uneven bar, but she was generally known for her balance beam and floor exercise routines. She began coaching in 1973 with the opening of the National Academy of Artistic Gymnastics. Linda and Richard (now deceased) have three children, Doni-Jo (Jojo), David, and Matthew. All three did gymnastics when they were younger and then went into diving, baseball, and soccer, respectively. All three now help with coaching and running NAAG.
Dick Mulvihill
Co-Founder (In Memoriam)
Dick co-founded the National Academy with Linda in 1973. Mulvihill was an assistant coach for the U.S. Gymnastics teams that competed at the 1966 World Championships, 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games, the 1967 World University Games, and the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. Athletes he coached competed in the 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games.
In 1973 Richard moved to Eugene Oregon and opened the National Academy of Artistic Gymnastics with his wife Linda Metheny Mulvihill. Together they have coached and encouraged thousands of young athletes. Richard showed the same enthusiasm and passion whether coaching young beginners or advanced Olympians. He was the driving force and inspiration for 17 Olympians who represented the USA and several other countries and over 50 National Champions. With education of the highest priority for his athletes he’s helped hundreds of gymnast gain college scholarships.
Dick was inducted into the USAIG Hall of Fame in 1982, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1984, USA Gymnastics Region 2 Lifetime Achievement award which is now known as the Dick Mulvihill Award in 2002 and and the Region 5 Hall of Fame in 2012.
Jojo Mulvihill
Program Director
Donijo (Jojo) Mulvihill, as the eldest child of Academy founders Dick and Linda Mulvihill, literally grew up spending much of her time at the gym! As a youngster she participated in gymnastics training and competed on the Academy’s girls teams up to level 8. During teenage years, she chose to put her gymnastics training to good use in the sport of diving. She participated at the club level, and she also competed for South Eugene High School, winning many awards and still holding many of their school records. She was also selected by Cirque du Soleil (1 of 5 out of 250 athletes auditioning) to join them at their Montreal training center to train for the female diving and a dance position within their LasVegas ‘O’ show.
Jojo has vast experience with children having run several after school programs for both elementary and kindergartners and teaching in a Montessori School. She also has many years of teaching experience in different sports including swimming, diving, children’s movement and snow boarding. Jojo studied Business Administration/Marketing and Creative Writing at The University of Massachusetts/Amherst whereby she finished her Business studies with a Bachelor’s Degree in 2002. After graduation she spent a couple years working professionally in a local marketing firm before deciding to travel the world for a few years and the re-entered into the world of gymnastics with us in 2004.
Optional Girls Head Coach and Girls Team Programs Director
Prior to joining the NAAG Staff, Raschilla spent 3 seasons with Oregon State Gymnastics. From Head Coach Tanya Chaplin: “Bryan tirelessly works to make our program one of the best in the country. He has a remarkable work ethic, is a great technician and a successful recruiter. His enthusiasm, experience and attention to detail positively impacts our student-athletes in the classroom and in the gym.”
Raschilla works primarily with the vault and uneven bars teams. In 2021 as an assistant, Raschilla helpedMadi Dagenreach the NCAA Championships as an individual vault qualifier.
As an assistant in his first season during 2021, Raschilla helped lead juniorMadi Dagento the NCAA Championships as an individual qualifier on vault. In 2022, and 2023 Oregon State won Back to Back PAC 12 Regular Season Titles for the first time in program history.
Prior to Oregon State, Raschilla spent two years as a volunteer assistant coach at Auburn University where he provided assistance in all events, social media marketing, database management and worked with all program camps.
During the Auburn stint, he helped Derrian Gobourne become the program’s first-ever national champion on vault. Drew Watson and Gobourne both earned All-American and All-SEC honors and Cassie Stevens was placed on the SEC All-Freshman Team.
Raschilla spent the previous 22 years at the University of Alabama, including the last four seasons there as the program’s associate head coach. During his career at Alabama he helped guide the team to 3 NCAA Championships, 6 SEC Championships and numerous individual champions and All American Honors. In Tuscaloosa, the Crimson Tide also finished national runner-up three times, and made 19 Super Six appearances. He also helped Alabama gymnasts win 15 individual NCAA titles. He has successfully recruited and coached Olympians, World Champions, and Developmental Program Champions (formerly the JO program)
Khum Moyo
Boys Head Coach and Boys Team Program Director
Coach Khum is a five-time Zimbabwe National Champion who won silver on the vault in the All-Africa Championships in 1994, placed seventh in the All-Africa Games in 1995 and represented Zimbabwe at the World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1997.
Khumwas born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He got involved in gymnastics when he was about 10 years old and started coaching beginning gymnasts in 1989 at his school and the local college, Prince Edward School, where he later attended. A couple of years later, he made his first national team appearance as a senior in high school and received a bronze medal in the team competition in the All-Africa Games in Cairo, Egypt, in 1991.
The coach at Prince Edward School who recruited Khum was from Corvallis Oregon and helped him make connections in the States and in Oregon. He always dreamed of continuing to pass of his love for the sport as a coach. He moved to Albany in 1998, met his future wife, Kari in Ashland has two children, Megan, and Jayvyn.
For nearly three decades, Khum has dedicated his days to coaching gymnasts. Most of that time has been spent at Umpqua Valley Gymnastics Club in Roseburg as their gym director and Head Optional Girls Coach. He joined us at NAAG almost three years ago and has been a key player working within all of our team levels for both boys and girls. He is currently leading the Boys Program as well coaching our Girls Level 6s.
Shireen Khamedoost
Optional Girls
David Mulvihill
Level 5 Girls
David Mulvihill is the Level 5 Girls Head Coach and the boy’s recreational coach. He is an accomplished gymnast, winning State titles on Floor Exercise, Rings, Parallel Bars, and High Bar. Mulvihill thrives in multiple competitive athletic fields. He held the state high school District Wrestling Champion for 2 years and served as starting catcher for the State Champions North Eugene Highlanders, where he was named the “Most Inspirational Player.”
After attending Modesto College on a baseball scholarship, Mulvihill returned to Eugene where his gymnastics family roots run deep. His experience as a physical education teacher for Eugene Montessori School (since 2003) perfectly dovetails with his coaching career at NAAG. He now enjoys working in his natural habitat at NAAG.
Ellen Swanson
Level 4/5 Girls
Ellie Pascoe-Long
Level 4/5 Girls
Annalise Totten: Girls Level 3
Ashley Daul: Girls Level 3 and Pre-Team
Katie Abbott: Xcel Team
Tashell Totten: Xcel Team
Alia G: Xcel Team
Recreational Coaches:
Amelia Glass
Breana Harless
Savanna Johnson
Stephanie Loop
Edgar Lopez
KJ (Katlyn) Lopez
Chayse McCann
Ellie Mitchell
Alia Muller
Akina Ohama
Brianna Owens
Calyssa Southern