About
DeKeuster’s Gymnastics has been around for almost 40 years. It all started in the Fort Thomas Cafeteria. Jo DeKeuster taught school at Fort Thomas and had a lot of experience with Gymnastics. She started a little class in the Fort Thomas Cafeteria after school. They would put the tables away and set up the gym in the cafeteria a couple days a week. Jo had girls coming from Pima, Fort Thomas, Thatcher and Safford. Sometime later Jo took a teaching position at Safford Schools so she had to move the gym. The gym has been in different places in Safford until its recent move to Thatcher in March of 2010. Heidi Morris took over the gym in 2003. Heidi was one of Jo's first students who started in Fort Thomas. Heidi owned the gym for 19 ½ years and transformed it into what it is now. Sarah McDougal stepped in January of 2022. Sarah learned gymnastics from Heidi for 8 years and coached alongside Heidi for 11 years. Sarah plans to keep the great traditions of Dekeuster’s gymnastics alive and hopes to grow the business even more to provide more opportunities for growth and improvement in all of Eatern Arizona's Gymnasts.