Dreamer... Tactical Thinker... Team Builder... Blessed!
Julianna Crowder is a dreamer, teacher and community leader. Opening in 2001, she owned a successful dance studio in Leander TX which included an award winning Competitive Dance Company, Mother's Day Out and Afterschool program known as Julianna's Performing Arts Studio. She is proud that she was able to "help raise other people's children" and contribute to the enrichment of hundreds of families in the Cedar Park/Leander community for seven years.
2007 Julianna's path took a very interesting turn, leaving her dance studio behind and pursuing a career in personal empowerment and self defense education in the firearms industry. With her husband John, they opened Capitol Area Practical Shooting as certified firearms instructors for the State of Texas Concealed Carry program and as NRA firearms instructors. Over 10,000 students attended various programs in their 18 year run. In 2011 Julianna and John established 2 organizations still going strong today! First in February 2011, Julianna created a women's shooting club called A Girl and A Gun Women's Shooting League. AG & AG which started as one chapter in Cedar Park Texas and is now a nationwide organization serving 300+ ranges and 10,000+ members that participate in local, regional and national events. August 2011, John and Julianna launched Capitol Area Practical Shooters (CAPS Club) hosting rifle, pistol and shotgun competitive matches. Celebrating 14 years of amazing matches our home base is at Texas Shooting Academy in Florence TX. Caps Club is hosting matches every weekend for novice to advanced shooters... JOIN US!
December 2018 Julianna felt her dance roots calling her home and the need for her body to move in a functional and meaningful way as injuries were becoming a more common occurrence in everyday activities. Julianna joined Club Pilates to rebuild her body and it wasn't long before the educator inside of her was called and enrolled in instructor training July 2019, gaining a comprehensively trained certificate in December 2021. Feeling completely fulfilled with her journey at A Girl and A Gun and John leading CAPS Club fulltime, Julianna retired in July 2022 from the firearms industry to work full time as a Pilates Instructor, once again starting from the ground up building a new career and adventure in her life! Her continuing education is centered around her intuitive abilities as a bodyworker and rehabilitation methods using Pilates as the main driver. The passion now about being a bodyworker, incorporating all the techniques and movement principles to help find strength, balance, and peace in the body and mind.
There is more to come in Julianna's story, stay tuned!
2007 Julianna's path took a very interesting turn, leaving her dance studio behind and pursuing a career in personal empowerment and self defense education in the firearms industry. With her husband John, they opened Capitol Area Practical Shooting as certified firearms instructors for the State of Texas Concealed Carry program and as NRA firearms instructors. Over 10,000 students attended various programs in their 18 year run. In 2011 Julianna and John established 2 organizations still going strong today! First in February 2011, Julianna created a women's shooting club called A Girl and A Gun Women's Shooting League. AG & AG which started as one chapter in Cedar Park Texas and is now a nationwide organization serving 300+ ranges and 10,000+ members that participate in local, regional and national events. August 2011, John and Julianna launched Capitol Area Practical Shooters (CAPS Club) hosting rifle, pistol and shotgun competitive matches. Celebrating 14 years of amazing matches our home base is at Texas Shooting Academy in Florence TX. Caps Club is hosting matches every weekend for novice to advanced shooters... JOIN US!
December 2018 Julianna felt her dance roots calling her home and the need for her body to move in a functional and meaningful way as injuries were becoming a more common occurrence in everyday activities. Julianna joined Club Pilates to rebuild her body and it wasn't long before the educator inside of her was called and enrolled in instructor training July 2019, gaining a comprehensively trained certificate in December 2021. Feeling completely fulfilled with her journey at A Girl and A Gun and John leading CAPS Club fulltime, Julianna retired in July 2022 from the firearms industry to work full time as a Pilates Instructor, once again starting from the ground up building a new career and adventure in her life! Her continuing education is centered around her intuitive abilities as a bodyworker and rehabilitation methods using Pilates as the main driver. The passion now about being a bodyworker, incorporating all the techniques and movement principles to help find strength, balance, and peace in the body and mind.
There is more to come in Julianna's story, stay tuned!