Coaching & clinics

The work didn't stop when I did.

I retired from competing in 2022. I never really left the gym. These days I mentor, I build routines, and I work with athletes on the part nobody trains you for: who you are when you are not competing.

Gemma Rhodes spotting a young gymnast on the balance beam

Mentoring · National team gymnasts · Ongoing · US training camps

Team USA mentoring

Since 2024 I’ve worked with Team USA at training camps, mostly with the younger athletes. The technical side matters, routine construction, knowing where the difficulty should live. But the part I care about most is everything around it: staying steady, and how you hold yourself when the pressure and the cameras show up before you feel ready for them.

Choreography · Elite and collegiate gymnasts · Ongoing

Beam and floor choreography

Beam and floor were my events, and choreography is where I’m most useful now. I help gymnasts build routines that actually fit them: lines that read from the judges’ table and from the back row, and that still look like the person doing them.

Gemma Rhodes walking a gymnast through floor choreography

Mentoring · Gymnasts returning from injury · Ongoing

Mental resilience and recovery

I lost nearly two years to an ankle injury, and the surgeries were not the hard part. The hard part was not knowing who I was while I couldn’t compete. So I work with gymnasts coming back from injury, and with anyone carrying the weight of being known for one thing. I coach the way the sport taught me: by feel, building sensations you can find again under pressure, not just cues you try to remember.