Tom Otjes, Outstanding Alumni Award - Athletic Achievement - HD

Tom Otjes, Therapeutic Recreation '76 graduate from Mount Royal, is the 2011 Legacy Awards winner of the Outstanding Alumni Award - Athletic Achievement. Otjes has built an international reputation as an accomplished gymnastics coach, leader and innovator.
As the Las Vegas-based Senior Head Coach, Resident Shows Division, with Cirque du Soleil, he "coaches the coaches" for 12 shows worldwide. Joining the company in 1997, he was instrumental in creating the critically acclaimed O.
Otjes helped the Mount Royal Gymnastics Club's young female athletes excel at the provincial and national levels, and as the club's Head Coach from 1985--95 led its growth into the largest gymnastics club in Western Canada. Many athletes went on to become world and Olympic champions and Canada now ranks as a world leader.