Coach Jodi
Jodi Rinard (42) is the head coach of the Mile High Vaulters. She learned to vault at Mount Holyoke College and has been vaulting, competing, and coaching for more than 20 years. She passed her American Vaulting Association Silver Medal in 1998. She coached the Albuquerque Vaulters to the 1999 AVA Trot team national championship and the Emerald City Vaulters to the 2001Trot team championship. The Mile-High Vaulters were the Trot 2-phase team champions in 2005. In real life, Jodi works for a CPA firm. Her other activities include, raising 3 daughters, volleyball, hockey, and a passion for reading science fiction.
Coach Ginger
Ginger Dohmen (26) is Jodi’s sister and a Mile High Vaulters assistant coach. She is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado. She was an Emerald City Vaulter and is now with Mile High and has been vaulting since the age of 5. She has competed at the local, regional, and national levels and passed her AVA bronze medal test in 2000. When not vaulting, Ginger works and helps take care of her nieces.
Coach Dena
Dena Madden (53) began vaulting in 2003, at the age of 46, when she saw how much fun her children were having with it. Initially, she was vaulting therapeutically for spinal problems and thoracic outlet syndrome, then recreationally, and finally competitively at Trot. She passed her AVA trot medal in 2007. In 2010, she moved to Canter, and has been assistant coaching for the Mile High Vaulters. She is the club secretary and the unofficial team “mom”. Having never done anything with sports until beginning vaulting, she thinks that one is never too old to begin an athletic career. She is especially interested in growing therapeutic and adult vaulting.
The Madden’s live in the foothills west of Loveland, where they currently keep goats, chickens, ponies, cats, and a dachshund. Outside of vaulting, Dena is a wife and mother of four children, and works as a family physician in Loveland and Fort Collins. She is involved in church activities and interested in handcrafts, animals, and reading.
Coach Courtney
Courtney Madden has been vaulting since 2003. She has her Bronze Medal and is Vaulting at the Silver level. In addition to coaching for the younger vaulters, she assists the other coaches, and helps train the vaulting horses. She is in Pony Club, teaches a children's Sunday school class, and takes Gymnastics. She hopes to get a degree in Equine Science after finishing High School this year.