Kathie Gude
4 Love of the Game Sports was founded by Kathie Gude in 2002. It started out as a soccer league for high school girls in the Orthodox Jewish community. I directed my attention to that particular group of people because I saw there was a desire for physical activity and sports in their lives. All the other youth soccer programs such as AYSO usually had games on Saturdays. This was not an option for someone of an orthodox Jewish faith. What I decided to do was cater specifically to the girls’ religious needs in which I would respect Shabbot each week and any other Jewish holidays. I would hold a practice during the week and games would be played on Sundays. It was a success! All of a sudden, I had 120 girls from all the surrounding Orthodox Jewish High Schools in Los Angeles playing soccer. The great thing about it was many of the girls signing up always had an interest but never played soccer before. Everyone was welcome, no matter what their ability level and it was exactly for love of the game, and that is how I came up with my company. I decided to expand my business and provide services in all sports and fitness activities for individuals of all ages.
I graduated in 2001 from California State University of Northridge with a Bachelors degree in Kinesiology and in 2011 with a Masters degree in Sports Management from American Public University. I hold a certification in personal training accredited by NASM as well as an ASEP Coaching certificate and a NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching certificate. I also attended Massage Therapy School at The Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing in 1996. For most my life, sports has played a huge role, whether as an athlete or a coach. All throughout my school years, I engaged in any sport I could such as basketball, soccer, softball, and cross-country. I continued playing soccer for 2 years at Santa Monica Community College. However, it was at age 11 when one particular sport became my passion and primary focus. It was martial arts. I began studying the art when I was 10. I worked up through the system and was a frequent participant in tournaments. By the age of 13, I started doing private training sessions for $35/hour at my dojo. I received my Black Belt in Kenpo by 15 years of age. After High School, I started teaching Karate at camps and schools in Los Angeles. I worked as a coach doing sports themed birthday parties. I started Kickboxing when I was 20 and eventually participated in amateur bouts. A few years later, I decided I wanted to professional box in which I did for 2 years.
After I graduated from college, I worked at Shalhevet High School teaching physical education and coaching soccer and basketball. After 3 years, I switched jobs and began working at Yula High School. I continued to teach Physical Education and coached soccer, basketball, and also cross country. A year after being at Yula, I became both the girls and boys school Athletic Director. I also took the Los Angeles Girls Soccer Maccabi Team to Detroit in 2008 and won the Championship! Years later I decided to stop working for the schools and direct all my attention to my own business in sports and fitness, and that is where I am today. I am available for private and/or group training sessions.
Greg Pomeroy
Greg Pomeroy is a Southern California-based, former semi-professional ice hockey player, youth sports coach. As a travel nature photographer and homeschooling dad of two, he loves sharing the benefits of the outdoors and adventures with youth. He has played and coached nearly every sport throughout his life and is honored to pass on his skills and experience.
Karen Morizi is a credentialed teacher from San Diego, CA with a background in competitive sports. Though her basketball career was cut short due to a knee injury in high school, Morizi was recruited to play Division I Softball at Drexel University. She finished her softball career at California State University San Marcos while earning her teaching credentials.
After college, Coach Karen coached a 12 & U All-Star Girls Softball team in Del Mar, taught coaching and skills clinics for the San Marcos Girls Softball League, and offered private hitting and fielding lessons for players in the area.
Throughout San Diego County, Coach Karen has taught basketball classes after school through the One-on-One Basketball program and, most recently, has taught multiple sports classes through the after school program here at 4 Love of the Game Sports.
Her love for sports combined with her knowledge of education makes her an informed and passionate instructor for kids of all ages.
Tracy Rose
Hi, I am Tracy Rose! I was born and raised in Southern California. I was involved in competitive swimming from age 6 through college. I was a 14-time division II All American in swimming at California State University of Northridge (CSUN) where I graduated with a degree in physical education. I was inducted into their Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994. After College at CSUN, I took up running and ran a year at Long Beach Community College where I was the junior college state champion in the 3000 and 5000 meters. I have been running and competing now for over 30 years. I have coached Track at the youth level and have coached Cross Country and Track at the high school level for over 20 years. I have so much passion for running and fitness that I want to pass it on to the younger generations. I hope to see them also find the passion so that they may live long and healthy lives.
Cannetta Bradford
Cannetta Bradford is a licensed, certified, and insured Zumba teacher for adults and kids. She has over twenty years of certified group fitness class experience. Cannetta has enjoyed the privilege of working as a dance teacher for the University of San Diego and the Golden Door as a fitness specialist and dance teacher.
Cannetta also owned and operated a dance studio in Alaska. As a studio owner, she was gifted with teaching and running up to 23 classes per week, ages ranging from 3-75 years young. She choreographed and overseen all performance and competition routines. Cannetta planned and coordinated competition team travel to regional and national dance workshops and competitions.
Cannetta is motivated to teach and engage kids in the art of dance, fitness, creative thinking, games and joyful play. Her motivation comes from a deep love for dance. She first started dancing at age 5. Cannetta was nicknamed Kinetic Energy due to her contagious, never ending joy, while in motion. She went on to travel, compete, perform, and thrive, while dancing. She began teaching her first class by age 14 and opening a studio by the age of 20.
Cannetta enjoys bringing out joy through movement with music. Zumba provides a strong sense of different cultures in its unique, rhythmic program. She loves to learn about and share what she’s learned of different rhythms and dances from countries all around our world.
When Cannetta teaches Zumba, she implements different instruments while teaching specific choreography. She’s often found showing a map to students so they can see where they are virtually traveling, while listening to a specific song to tie the choreography together. For example, when she teaches the merengue, she provides beautiful authentic maracas to be used for the duration of a Merengue song. Participants imagine traveling to the Dominican Republic and practicing dancing traditional merengue movements.
Seeing smiles and hearing laughter coming from participants while learning the cumbia is priceless. After traveling on our map to Columbia students dance a sleepy leg routine with lots of giggles. This is something that is not only memorable but gets her students exercising, and playing together. This class is providing a social, safe environment so kiddos feel free to express themselves and grow friendships.
Cannetta encourages her classes to have creative improvisation, most of her routines can be followed along with, without any breakdown of the routines, some songs include choreography breakdown, with Q&A’s. Zumba classes grow rhythmically with new choreography.
Cannetta understands that how kids feel emotionally, mentally, and physically can be different daily. She also understands the need to customize movements for specific needs and/or requests. She’s happy to modify movements based on any daily feeling or challenge. Cannetta is available to hear any questions you might have and hopes to answer your questions with care.
Michael Mezey
Mike has over 35 years of experience identifying, recruiting, coaching and mentoring athletes in the sports of soccer, swimming, running and cross country, triathlon, road and track cycling. During this time I have worked with athletes and their families including explaining the benefits of targeted personal training programs as it relates to long term development, identifying an athlete’s existing and future potential, ensuring that the athlete understands and embraces the level of commitment required to achieve projected goals, academic requirements in high school and college, and how to get noticed and identified by college coaches and scouts as a potential recruit. Included in these discussions has been the need to identify the educational needs of a student athlete in relation to the level of play (D1, D2, D3, NAIA) the athlete can realistically hope to compete at.
Toni Matz
Toni grew up in Utah competing in swimming, track, cycling, tennis and triathlons, but tennis has always been her favorite. She is a UCLA graduate and enjoys being outdoors doing anything active. She has taught San Diego foster children how to play tennis, through her work as a CASA, at Voices for Children. She competes through USTA at our local clubs and has competed in various parts of the country, including Boston and Salt Lake City. Toni has been fortunate to volunteer in our community in various aspects, through her love of sports and in our classrooms through her passion for helping children succeed. She is currently earning her Master’s degree at Alliant University to become a therapist. She enjoys sharing her passion for tennis and cycling with anyone who wants to learn.