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Pretty sure salem is "Bens gym", and they share kids with kville, i.e kids being on legacy(salem) and say coed elite(kville). And from what I remember, CSP was pretty involved with the charlotte gym as well, but maybe has less to do with it now(?). I for sure remember her being very hands on with lady elite when they moved to charlotte, and also in the beginning with monarchs.
Yep. My first year at Salem was 2002 and Courtney was our head coach. She stuck around a few years to get the gym going (we were brand new), and then Ben took over and ran things. That gym is his baby. Many of my teammates would cross to teams at Kville and they called upon us several times as fill ins when I was younger. Salem has always been sort of a “stepping stone” location for athletes who wish to be on worlds teams...they train at Salem for a few years and when they feel they have the skills for a worlds team, they go to Kville, which is only about a 30 min drive.
ETA: in regards to teams competing against other locations: seems as though they’ve tried to limit this in recent years but when I was a kid we ALWAYS competed against our own program. Usually against the Sanford gym. I actually ended up coaching a rec program with a girl who I competed against from Sanford, ironically lol. :D