Alex Martin Csiernik

Alex is the Radiance All Stars Founder, Head Coach, & Cheerleading Director.  Alex's experience includes 6 years of coaching all star, 7 years of coaching college, 3 years of high school coaching, and 4 years of UCA Staff.  

Since founding Radiance All Stars in 2020, Alex has led the program to Summit, National, and Worlds competition victories. In the program's first year of existence, JPAC Radiance's International Open Level 7 Team won a Bronze Globe at The Cheerleading Worlds. JPAC is one of just 131 programs in the world who have won a Globe at The Cheerleading Worlds.  

Under her instruction, in just five seasons, the program has grown from 18 athletes and 2 teams to 100 athletes with 9 teams.  

JPAC Radiance’s Current Season Snapshot:  

• 7/7 First Place finishes at WSF Grand Nationals 

• 5 First Place finishes at Jamfest Super Nationals 

• 2 Second Place finishes at Jamfest Super Nationals 

• 7/7 First Place finishes at COA Grand Nationals 

Past Seasons: 

• 2021 Bronze Worlds Medalists - International Open 7 

• 2023 Bronze D2 Summit Medalists - Junior 2 

• 2024 Bronze Youth Summit Medalists - Youth 1 

• 2024 Bronze Youth Summit Medalists - Youth 2 

• 2024 8th Place D2 Summit - Senior 4.2

• 2024 Silver D2 Summit Medalists - Junior 3 

• 13 Regional Summit Gold Medalists

Prior to founding the Radiance All Stars program, Alex was an Assistant Coach at Indiana University. During her tenure at IU, she assisted the team in winning two additional D1A All Girl national titles, in 2014 and 2016. She was also the Head Coach at IUPUI in 2022-2023 during which the team finished 8th at UCA College Nationals in the Open All Girl Game Day Division. Alex was the Assistant Coach at IUPUI 2019-2021 where she choreographed and led the Jaguars to an 8th place finish in the D1 All Girl Traditional Division in 2020.  Alex was also a Head Coach at Hamilton Southeastern High School for two years, winning the 2019 Varsity A State Championship.  

As an athlete, Alex cheered at Greenwood High School and Speed Athletics. With Speed Athletics, her team reached The Cheerleading Worlds in their first year as a program. Alex then cheered for four years at Indiana University on the Crimson All Girl Squad, winning the first two UCA College National Championship titles in school history in 2012 and 2013, while also cheering on the Hoosiers in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and volleyball. 

At Indiana University, Alex completed her degree in Secondary English Education and then became a teacher. Alex taught for 8 years prior to working full time at Radiance All Stars. Alex also holds a Masters in Educational Administration and Leadership. Alex and her husband, Alex, reside in McCordsville.

Paige Maroska

Paige is the Assistant Head Coach at Radiance All Stars and has been coaching since the program opened. She has been an integral part in the training of our program.

While coaching at Radiance, Paige has coached teams to the following successes:

• 2021 Bronze Worlds Medalists - International Open 7 

• 2023 Bronze D2 Summit Medalists - Junior 2 

• 2024 Bronze Youth Summit Medalists - Youth 2 

• 2024 8th Place D2 Summit - Senior 4.2

• 2024 Silver D2 Summit Medalists - Junior 3 

• 13 Regional Summit Gold Medalists

Prior to coaching at Radiance, she was an assistant coach for Eastern Hancock High School for two years. In those two years the team earned two Varsity D State titles, 3rd place at state in the Varsity Timeout Division, and three conference titles. 

As an athlete, Paige was a gymnast for 10 years before becoming a cheerleader. She first cheered at Fitness Force All Stars and later moved to Speed Athletics. While at Speed Athletics, Paige competed at The Cheerleading Worlds in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Paige went on to cheer for the University of Louisville All Girl. She earned a NCA National Championship in 2015 with Louisville Small Coed. Paige also cheered for Gymtyme Platinum during her freshman year of college. Paige earned an 8th place finish at the 2015 Cheerleading Worlds in the Medium Coed division with Gymtyme Platinum. While in school she studied Marketing as well as Criminal Justice. 

Finishing her career as an athlete, Paige cheered at Midwest Cheer Elite. She competed at the 2016 Cheerleading Worlds with Midwest Cheer Elite Black Diamonds. During this time Paige was also preparing to attend the Central Indiana Fire Academy.  Currently, Paige is a Career Firefighter for the Wayne Township Fire Department on the west side of Indianapolis. She is in her 9th year of her career. Paige has a husband named Josh, and three beautiful daughters, Aubrey, Julia and DJ.

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