Yellow Jackets Skydiving Team

Team Owner: Amanda Scheffler...

Has about 1,400 skydives. She enjoys all skydiving disciplines: Belly flying, Freeflying, Wingsuiting, CRW (canopy relative work), and doing Demo jumps with flags, smoke, pyro and performing skydiving demonstrations at airshows. She is an FAA Certified Parachute Rigger (with chest, back and seat ratings), and a skydiving coach. She is also owner of the Misty Blues All Women Skydiving Demo Team and has been performing skydiving demonstrations for 8 seasons.

Team member Darren "Sporto" Johnson is also a swooper...

Sporto has over 11,000 skydives and 2 Freefly World records; 69 person and 108 person records. He is a USPA rated jumpmaster, AFF Instructor, and videographer/photographer. He started skydiving in the military in 1989 and civilian 1991. He has 10 years in the military. He served with 2nd Battalion - 75th Ranger regiment from Fort Lewis, Ranger qualified, Airborne qualified, parachuted in with Rangers during the invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989. In his spare time he enjoys trail running, triathalons.

Some info about team member and wingsuiter Nick Peariso

Nick has about 600 skydives (400 wingsuit jumps) and has been skydiving since June 2011. He has a passion for wingsuiting and is also a skydiving coach. He has a Bachelor Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Western Michigan University and works as a Product Design Engineer.

First airshow for Yellow Jackets!