Meet The Team

Anna Santiago - Founder & CEO

Anna Santiago is an intrepid entrepreneur and self-starter with over 25 years of experience in executive level management and leadership development. Anna is a visionary leader who runs one of the largest youth sports centers in the southeast. She started Intown Stars in 2013 by teaching gymnastics classes to her friends’ children in a tiny Sunday School room in a neighborhood church. Intown Stars now boasts over 3,000 children per week with over 100 employees. In 2020 Intown Stars was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the Fastest Growing Companies in America. It is listed as #1,236 out of 250,000 entries.What sets Anna apart is her heart-centered leadership approach, engaging stakeholders and employees in a joint mission to build community, build wealth and build leaders. She believes that entrepreneurial success is driven by trust; and building trust is a long game of bold marketing strategies, disciplined structure of internal processes, radical candor, open book management, and transparency, with clear, pro-active communication from the top.Driven by mission and guided by numbers, Anna has an intuitive sense for business and an impulsive curiosity about growth – both professional and personal. Over 25 years of learning tough lessons, through hiring, firing and inspiring staff has made her highly attuned to attracting the best employees to advance Intown Stars' mission. She believes that setting bold and specific goals and empowering her leadership team to set the unwavering intention to meet those goals makes her business thrive.Quirky, bold, intelligent, and fair, Anna has the drive and focus to build programming that is good for the community and for business. The mission of Intown Stars is "Kids Like it Here". Anna's favorite moments at work are children being dragged out of the gym by their parents, crying and begging to stay. As long as that happens, Anna keeps Intown Stars growing and being a leader in the youth sports industry.

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General Manager

Damon

Damon Vance is a University of Georgia graduate and has an array of experience with Fortune 500
companies as well as being an owner of his own construction company. Prior to becoming a business
partner and General Manager of Intown Stars, Damon has led construction teams at the old location and
was in charge of construction and building design of Intown Stars' new location. Damon’s initial
exposure to Intown Stars was as a parent of his 2 daughters, Devyn and Josie, who still participate in
Aerial Silks and camps at Intown Stars.

KidSpace Department Leader

Caleb

Caleb is a child development professional who has helped build and grow camps for the last 15 years. He is a leader in the camp community, teaching professionals at a variety of American Camp Conferences. Before camp, Caleb was teaching High School Biology in Gwinnett County.

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Gymnastics Program Manager

Tanner

Tanners introduction into movement started with martial arts tricking about 14 years ago. Tricking led him to explore all kinds of different modalities of strength and conditioning along with coaching gymnastics. He coached gymnastics for about 7 years at both the rec and team levels before taking a break to dive deep into exploring the world of strength & conditioning along with personal training. Throughout the past couple of years he learned that he could make the most lasting impact on multiple lives through coaching gymnastics, so now he's back!

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Rec Administrator

Patty

Patty has been apart of Intown Stars since 2020. She previously taught pre-k, kindergarten, and PE for 14 years. In her free time she likes to read and also really enjoys working with kids.

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Sweet Peas Program Manager

Erin

Erin has coached all levels of gymnastics over the last 20+ years. She moved to Georgia from Florida last year to join the Intown family as the preschool program manager. When she's not in the gym she loves spending time with her family and watching baseball.

Aerial Silks Program Manager

Caulder

Caulder has been coaching aerial silks and gymnastics for 5 years at Intown. Before working here, he cheered at Georgia Tech and coached all-star cheer. He finished his degree in exercise science and studied dance at Kennesaw State University while working at Intown.

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Parkour Program Manager

Titus

Titus a native of Atlanta, and he's been doing parkour and gymnastics since his 20's. He's a huge comic book, anime, cosplay, and video game nerd.

Dance Program Manager

Jay

Jay has over 10 years of experience in the professional & competitive dance industry. His credits include coaching grand champion teams/performing on MetaVerse, Netflix, and Peacock.

Developmental Program Manager

Taylor

Taylor McClendon began gymnastics at the age of 11 and competed for 7 years on the Junior Olympic (J.O.) track in USAG Levels 3-10. In 2008, he earned a spot on University of Iowa Men's Gymnastics Team. After obtaining his Civil Engineering degree, Taylor returned to Atlanta to work as a Project Engineer & coach at a number of Atlanta Programs. Taylor's hobbies playing Flag Football with his Travel Team, working out, spending time with family & friends and his friendly dog, Limah.

Mens Program Director

Tyler

Tyler Green has been coaching gymnastics for over 18 years. He is President of the Georgia Men’s Gymnastics Judges Association and has judged at high level meets like the NCAA Championships and Olympic Trials. He is also the founder of the Kennesaw State University club gymnastics team as well as the Georgia United GymACT team. Tyler has completely revamped our men’s program to be geared towards developing high level gymnastics so you can trust your child will be in good hands here.

Hospitality Program Coordinator

JT was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was raised in Riverdale, Georgia. After high school, he proudly played Division I basketball at the United States Naval Academy. Apart from his athletic pursuits, he finds fulfillment in mentoring and training young athletes in basketball. When he's not on the court, he enjoys playing video games, fishing, and spending quality time with his dog.

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