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Tumbling and Cheerleading Academy Celebrates Grand Opening

TCA trains young men and women how to become the best cheerleaders they can be.

The Tumbling and Cheerleading Academy has been training young people how to tumble and cheer since 1999.

Owners Sharon Rachanski and her son, Jon, moved the business from Orland Park to Mokena late last year and have not regretted the move.

"Everyone has been great since we moved here," said Sharon Rachanski during grand opening ceremonies recently at the facility at 19202 S. Blackhawk Parkway.

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"This is a bigger facility," she said. "And a better building than we had."

Rachanski said TCA has more than 200 kids enrolled in a variety of classes that teach everything cheerleaders need to know to succeed.

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The shelves inside TCA are filled with trophies won in years past.

"We dropped competitive cheerleading," Rachanski said. "Now we strictly teach tumbling, which all cheerleaders need to know."

Rachanski said TCA works with a lot of school cheer squads and runs the tumbling courses offered by Lincoln-Way area park districts.

Academy hours are Mondays through Thursdays, 3 to 9 p.m.; Fridays, 1 to 7 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information, call 815-464-8071 or visit The Tumbling and Cheerleading Academy website.

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