Coach Ashley De Oliveira is a local to Tampa Florida. Her BJJ journey began in the Gracie Tampa network, training under Tony & Brittany Way. Starting in nogi BJJ originally, she began training in the gi as a blue belt, and quickly fell in love with it. She is a second degree brown belt under Professor Paulo De Oliveira, has trained BJJ for 10 years, and has 9 years previous experience as an educator.