Coach Jade
Coach Jade is the team’s coach and the only non-playable character on the roster. She appears in cutscenes and mission bookends, never on the competition floor.
Story
Editorial note: The biographical content below is synthesized from this character’s dialogue lines. It is not official character lore or a shipped game description — it’s a reader-aid reconstruction. Direct quotes are verbatim from the dialogue script; framing around them is the wiki’s.
Snapshot
Jade Whitmore is the Skylarks’ head coach and a former gymnastics star — in Lilly’s words, “THE Jade Whitmore, the gymnast every kid wanted to be.” She’s warm on the surface (“That leotard really suits you”) but exacting underneath, and she misses nothing: “I don’t miss talent, and I didn’t miss you. I watched every second.”
What we learn about her past
The dialogue establishes that she was a famous competitive gymnast before coaching, iconic enough to be a poster hero for Lilly’s generation. Beyond that, her personal history isn’t detailed in the script.
Arc
Jade’s through-line is steady rather than transformational. She scouts Lilly in Chapter 2, runs the Skylarks tryouts in Chapter 3, and names Lilly captain for her leadership. Across Chapters 4 and 5 she functions as mentor-in-chief: praising Jasmine’s clean beam work, watching Lilly grow, and finally intervening in the Brielle conflict with a line that reframes the whole Chapter 5 arc — “she acts from insecurity… deep down, she admires you.”
Relationships
- Lilly: Protégée and chosen captain; the coach-athlete relationship anchors the game.
- Jasmine: Publicly praises her early work (“That was clean, Jasmine. Strong work”), giving Jasmine her first real confidence boost.
- Brielle: The problem player Jade has to manage directly; she’s the one authority figure Brielle respects.
Profile
| Role | Coach (NPC) |
| Playable | No |
| Disciplines | — |
| Move pool | — |
| Wardrobe | Coach-specific outfit (coat + pants + accessory) — the gymnast wardrobe system does not apply |
| Dialogue lines | 11 (5% of all spoken content) |
Wardrobe
Coach Jade wears a fixed 3-piece outfit — a coat, pants, and an accessory — and does not swap leotards like the gymnasts. The pieces are stored as her own model family and cannot be equipped by the playable characters.
Role in gameplay
Coach Jade drives the tutorial and appears in pre- and post-mission dialogue for competition and training runs. She does not perform any moves — she has no Floor, Beam, Bars, or Vault pool. Her 11 dialogue lines are spread across the first-time-user experience and later coaching moments.
Dialogue presence
Coach Jade speaks 11 of 241 dialogue lines — the fewest among the 6 named characters. Every one of her scenes pairs her with Lilly.