Siuslaw Strength & Conditioning
Our Coaches
Coach Shayla
Owner/head coach
Certified USA weightlifting Level 1 Trainer 2022
Totten Training Level 1 2021
Precision Nutrition Coach 2019
OSAA certified coach
Shayla started her fitness career in 2015 as a personal trainer and opened Siuslaw Strength & Conditioning in 2018 with just a few clients in her garage. She saw a great opportunity to bring functional training to her community. She has been competing in Olympic weightlifting since 2021 and has competed in 4 national olympic lifting competitions and 1 international event. She currently works with many of the high school varsity teams on their strength training during the off season.
Coach Angela
Certified level 1 trainer 2018
USA Weightlifting Level 1 trainer 2022
Angela started her fitness career as an athlete, reaching the collegiate level in softball. Her favorite movements are barbell cycling and burpees. She thinks broccoli goes with every meal and can be found throwing around heavy things at her family store as well as the gym.
Coach Yilin
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Crossfit Level 1 trainer
Yilin is passionate about movement and fitness as an athlete, coach, and as a healthcare professional. She looks for asymmetries and movement faults to maximize athletes' efficiency and lower their injury risk. She enjoys all barbell movements and her favored movement is lunges. Outside of the gym, she also enjoys getting out for a hike in the beautiful PNW coastline.
Kelly Ross
Certified yoga instructor
Kelly has completes 200 hours of YTT and believes that yoga should be as accessible and comfortable as possible for everyone no matter their age, level or size. She likes olympic liftings, spontaneous dance parties, talking about how perfect her dog Buzz is, anything involving food and pigeon pose. She dislikes when people say they are to inflexible for yoga, the wind, and 5 pound pink dumbbells.