Tom lives in Washington DC with his husband and his two dogs. He grew up in Willard, Missouri and also attended Broken Arrow High School his senior year. In high school he cheered for Cheer Athletics. He has been coaching and choreographing for 24 years and was the general manager for Maryland Twisters Virginia for 5 years. As an athlete he won NCA national best cheerleader and NDA National best dance soloist. He has coached a team to bronze at the world championship, a summit national championship team, and multiple NCA national titles. He has choreographed gold, silver and bronze teams at the world championship, multiple summit national championships, and has received multiple NCA innovative choreography awards. Toms philosophy on choreography is combining his years of coaching with his years of choreography to create visual routines that are well suited toward your athletes. Highlighting strengths, while masking weaknesses to make the strongest looking routine possible for every team.