Meet the Instructors
 Lorrie Glass Coffman BS, MBA
Owner, HourGlass Fitness and Wellness
ACE-certified Personal Trainer
Yoga Alliance-registered Yoga Teacher-200 hours
Lorrie is certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and studied practical training through ACE as well. Lorrie has been training since 1996. Always striving to find the ultimate fitness regimen, she realized she needed more balance in her fitness routine. This quest led her to her first yoga class where she found the piece she was missing! Lorrie is now a Yoga Alliance 200-hour certified yoga teacher.
Exercise and nutrition have always been her passions; yoga is the one form of exercise Lorrie has found to provide a true sense of balance in and between the mind and body. And her personal study of nutrition has led her down the path to unraveling the mystery of what food can do in our bodies to prevent disease. She is very dedicated to helping others learn this same information.
Lorrie earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and her graduate degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After having her first child in 1999, Lorrie discovered the importance of specialized exercise and nutrition for post-partum women. While pregnant with her second child in 2003, she founded HourGlass Fitness and Wellness, a personal fitness and nutrition service committed to helping YOU take control of your health and increase your quality of life using exercise instruction, nutrition education and lifestyle choices to achieve optimum wellness.
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 Susan Caruthers
Born and raised in Wellsville, KS, Susan attended the Wellsville schools from Kindergarten thru her senior year, graduating in 2006.
Starting her dance career at the age of three, she has always loved to dance. Throughout her childhood, she trained in ballet, tap, jazz, tumbling and hip-hop. While in high school she became active on the Wellsville Dance Team where she competed to become a Universal Dance Association All-Star Dancer in 2004 & 2005. Susan has participated in many competitions receiving a rating of 1 on most of her routines. In 2006, the Dance Team was selected to perform at the finals of the 3-2-1A State Basketball Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Currently, Susan is assisting Sherry Ellis with the Wellsville High School Dance Team where she enjoys every minute of practice! Teaching the current Team members technique, dance skills and training them for competitions always keeps her smiling.
Susan is excited to teach young dancers how to develop into shining stars!
Gina Dearing
gdearing1011@yahoo.com
Gina has always had an interest and passion for dance, starting from an early age. She began taking ballet, jazz, and tap at 4 years old and continued dancing all the way through college. She started teaching beginner, intermediate and advanced tap and beginner ballet when she was 14. She taught these classes for two studios throughout college. At 15, she was accepted into the Kansas City Dance Theatre Company, a dance performance group that performs throughout Kansas City. She danced with the company for four years, ultimately earning a dance scholarship to New York City. She studied tap, ballet and jazz at the Broadway Dance Center under some of the top teachers in these fields. At 16, she had an amazing opportunity to perform with the National Dance Team in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. After high school she received a summer internship in dance and choreography at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, MO.
She’s maintained an interest in dance as an adult, volunteering with high school musical productions as the choreographer and dance leader. Dance began her life-long interest in health and fitness, as well as yoga, which she’s now been practicing for 6 years. After twelve years in the work field, marriage and two children, she’s excited to start teaching again! She believes that ballet provides fundamental techniques that are the foundation for all other forms of dance, self-confidence, discipline, and appreciation for movement and music. She’s VERY excited to offer ballet classes to teach basic techniques in a fun and creative way!
Angela Hancock
angela555@live.missouristate.edu
Angela Hancock started dancing at the age of three. She is trained in modern, ballet, Pointe, tap and jazz dance styles. During her career, she has danced with the Manhattan Dance Project, Russian Ballet (as an extra in the Nutcracker), Chris Jones, and the Arbor Dance Company. Along with her dance training, she is also trained in vocal performance and musical theater.
Angela performed with the Missoula Children’s Theater, played Dorothy and served as assistant choreographer in The Wizard of Oz, played Lisel in the Sound of Music, played Marion Paroo in The Music Man, was a chorus member and assistant choreographer in Jesus Christ Superstar, and has danced in Oklahoma and Cinderella.
In December 2009, she graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance. While attending Missouri State University, Angela choreographed a modern dance piece, A Judas Kiss, which was chosen to showcase at the American College Dance Festival. She also choreographed her senior recital. Angela was a member and manager of Inertia Dance Company. This company focused on children’s theater and creative movement and traveled to various schools to perform.
Angela plans to get her Masters of Fine Arts degree. She also plans to continue choreographing and to someday have her own dance company.
Chase Labahn
Grand Master Hans Martial Arts Teacher-120 hours
chase_leb@hotmail.com
Chase Lebahn is originally from Seymour, Missouri where he graduated from Seymour Christian Academy. Chase recently moved to Ottawa, Kansas to start a martial arts division for his certifying organization and to further his education at Neosho County Community College.
He has been training under Master Zack and Katie Shaw since he was 9 years old and has competed in many different tournaments over his 9-year martial arts career winning many awards. He has become a third degree black belt and has experience competing in grappling tournaments.
Trish Peterson
washburn@bionicllc.com
Trish Peterson is from Ottawa and is the Property Manager at Washburn Towers Senior Apartment Complex, which was her former Junior High school. Trish earned a Business Degree from Ottawa University and has had varied work experience ranging from working with adults with developmental disabilities, running her own management recruitment agency, and since 2005, has worked with seniors ranging in areas from case management, home health management, assisted living operator and director of long-term care. Working with seniors has helped Trish learn first-hand the importance of exercise and fitness to reduce falls, increase muscle strength and improve memory.
When her residents expressed an interest in learning Tai Chi, but wanted the class to be offered at Washburn Towers, Trish decided to learn Tai Chi herself so she could teach it to her residents. Trish learned from the best, instructor Steve Brown from Kansas City, a certified and very experienced martial arts/Tai Chi instructor. Trish now teaches Tai Chi for Arthritis to her residents at Washburn Towers and is looking forward to expanding her class to HourGlass Fitness and Wellness.
Steve Prybylo
NSCA-certified personal trainer
przybylo78@hotmail.com
Steve received his Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Exercise from Kansas State University. Steve is a certified personal trainer with ten years of hands-on experience. Before moving to the Kansas City area, Steve was a fitness specialist at King Fieldhouse at Fort Riley, Kansas. In this position, Steve prepared the U.S. troops to pass the PT exams for deployment. Currently, Steve is self-employed at Prizm Fitness in Overland Park. Additionally, Steve provides wellness programs for companies in the Kansas City area.
 Brenda Skiles
YogaFit certified yoga instructor
Rythmic Aerobics gold certified instructor
From an early age, Brenda realized that staying active and eating well were the keys to keeping your mind, body and spirit in balance. She was certified in high/low impact aerobics in the early 80's. Aerobics was her main passion, with body building running a close second. The body building was only for personal gain, and she never felt she could be committed to the diet and heavy weights for competition. She found that adding weights to her workout gave her a sense of power.
Wellsville High School and the Wellsville Recreation Committee have been great supporters to everything that she has taught in the community. Brenda held water aerobics classes in the summers with the help of the Wellsville City and Pool personnel.
After the birth of her child in 1993, she started an overweight, out of shape class. This class was well received. The personal testimonies of the people who took it made her very proud of what a person can do for themselves, if they decide to commit to an exercise program and the part that she played. Brenda took a long rest after these several years of teaching classes, coming to grips with what she thought was burnout...until she took a yoga class in 2008!!!
Brenda found that yoga brings concentration to the mind and strength to the body - not at all a sissy workout! She was hooked. Brenda is very devoted to the cool-down in her class and finds peace in the mini massages she gives her students during Savasana.
April Wilhite
wilhitea@usd231.com
April Wilhite is a 6th grade teacher in the Gardner School District. She received her undergraduate at Neosho County Community College and went on to earn her Bachelors of Art in Elementary Education from Ottawa University, graduating in 2007. For many years, April has had a passion for integrating both exercise and nutrition into her life as well as the lives of her family - teaching them the importance of a healthy lifestyle. As a 6th grade teacher, it was only natural for April to share and model the importance of this lifestyle to others. From the first ZUMBA class she attended, she knew that this fitness program was different. The lively music and fun and exciting dance moves inspired April to become certified as an instructor. Becoming a teacher of fitness seemed like a natural step. She discovered, as you will, that the ZUMBA fitness program is not only for the body, but also for the mind and soul!
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