Carlie has been a Wildcats coach since 2017, focusing particularly on tumbling. She grew up around dance and gymnastics since the age of 4 where she started competing at a very young age. During primary school, she decided to focus her attention on gymnastics. She has a long line of competition success behind her, winning many gold medals at each yearly competitions. Until her teens, she competed in individual artistic gymnastics (bars, beam, floor and vault) and then transitioned to team gymnastics (tumbling, vault, trampette and team floor routines) competing in regional and national competitions. Unfortunately, her gymnastics career ended due to injuries in the sport which repeated itself, resulting in ankle instabilities and too risky to continue.

Years later at the University of Portsmouth, she studied BSc Psychology and also decided to join the Cheerleading team to try something different and fell in love with it. She trained, competed and represented the University alongside Rachel, Brooke,Whitley and Maddie as a level 3 base on the competition squad of Portsmouth Phoenix. Whilst at University, she studied and thrived on the sports and educational psychology units which focused on children’s learning, behaviour and effects on performance. This confirmed she wanted a career in teaching sports to young people. Then, taking up a tough year achieving a postgraduate degree in teaching secondary physical education at the University of Sussex, she has earned a QTS and is now teaching full-time at school as well as coaching at Wildcats.