OUR TEAM
Lisa Titan
Owner/USA Boxing Certified Coach
Lisa is Co-Owner at St Johns Boxing. She has over 16 years experience in combat sports, including boxing. Lisa is passionate about creating a safe and welcoming community for all people. She loves working with children and hopes she can be a positive influence in their lives.
Heather LaRose
Owner/USA Boxing Certified Coach
Heather is a coach and co-owner at St Johns Boxing. As someone with a penchant for physical expression, she has enjoyed a varied athletic background over the course of her life. While she gained a lot through team sports and more traditional gym workouts, she found boxing to be the thing that “hit just right”. Heather discovered boxing in 2017 when she needed an effective way to deal with stress while getting her Master’s degree in Architecture. She found boxing to be a great way to stay fit and deal with stress and it soon became a daily activity.
Heather is a body positive and friendly trainer who works with all ability levels to help develop confidence, fitness, and skills. She understands how exclusive the fitness world can sometimes seem, especially in the sport of boxing, and hopes to provide a safe point of entry to bring inclusion and diversity to the sport. Outside of boxing, Heather enjoys art, design, spending time in nature, and eating.
Danny Roepke
Coach
Danny has been teaching fitness-inspired boxing for over 8 years. He is friendly, upbeat, and encouraging. His classes are often high-cardio, high-energy, sweat sessions. In addition to boxing, Danny enjoys yoga as a complimentary activity to high-energy boxing training.
Outside of boxing, Danny is a puppy trainer, and can often be spotted walking corgis in St Johns. Corgis are present at any of his classes.
Darrell Pope Jr
USA Boxing Certified Coach
Darrell has 12+ years of experience coaching boxing. He’s passionate about the sport because it’s more than just a sport, it’s a way of life. His approach to training is to provide a fun, energetic atmosphere that balances with a well-rounded and effective workout. He will make you sweat! He likes to come up with complex combinations that are challenging but flow well and have fight application. He hopes students will come in and have a great time, get a killer workout, and come away with a better understanding of the intricacies involved in boxing.
Jennifer Rousseau
USA Boxing Certified Coach
ACE Certified Personal Trainer
Jennifer takes a thoughtful and methodical approach to training, aiming to get people out of their heads and into their bodies while exercising. She drills form and movement until they become reflexive so students are able to conserve brain power for strategy and defense. She also enjoys finding strength exercises that are analogous to or compliment movements utilized in boxing. This helps build power, improve balance, and hone skills. Her favorite part of the job is continual learning. She finds reward in learning new things, sharing information, and watching students catch on and get better and better every week. Outside of boxing Jennifer is a scientist by trade, which lends to her methodical approach to teaching. In her free time she enjoys reading, cooking, strength training, knitting, “collecting weird old crap”, learning new things, and parenting two squirrelly kids.
Derek Mason
USA Boxing Certified Coach
Derek has been training for 6 years and is a Bronze-Level Certified Coach with USA Boxing. He is a master of evasive and defensive maneuvering, which he incorporates in his teaching. He enjoys working with all skill levels, and especially enjoys working with youth boxers.
Sabrina Eveland
USA Boxing Certified Coach
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
Sabrina is a USA Boxing Coach, Masters Level Registered Amateur Boxer, and NASM Certified Personal Trainer. She is skilled at helping students learn to execute movements with form and precision. She has a background teaching yoga and mindfulness and brings a spirit of creativity, curiosity, and playfulness into her boxing classes. She is forever a student of boxing and trains under several prominent coaches. She likes to share new stylistic perspectives and techniques with her students. She aims to give each student individualized attention and feedback as they progress, and welcomes questions and discussion. She loves watching people discover their own strength, resilience, and confidence through boxing.
J.P. Henry
Coach
Born and raised in North Portland, J.P. Henry has been a personal trainer and educator for nearly a decade. He is a Humanities and Mythology high school teacher by day, and a boxer by night, and loves all things nerdy. He received training at Lakeview Boxing in Chicago, Seattle Boxing Gym, and now St. John’s Boxing. With a mindset that boxing is for all, J.P. believes everyone can be their own hero in and out of the gym.