Sydney was recognized by her club at the year end banquet as the 2017 Women’s Program Leadership Award Winner.
Click PLAY or watch a tribute on Facebook.
A great personality in the Gym, Sydney is headed for Utah.
Category: NCAA
Nadalie Walsh to Illinois
Nadalie Walsh moves to Champaign-Urbana after four years at the helm of Utah State, where she guided the Aggies to four-consecutive NCAA Regional appearances. …
Samantha Snider to Pitt
Samantha Snider has been named the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh gymnastics team …
Snider becomes the third head coach in the history of the gymnastics program at Pitt, stepping into her first head coaching role after spending the previous nine seasons at the University of Arkansas. …
NCAA still hiring coaches
Terri Laymon posted an update.
Josh Nilson to EMU
Eastern Michigan University … announced today, June 9, the hiring of Josh Nilson as the new women’s gymnastics head coach at EMU.
Nilson spent the past year working at Pennsylvania State University as both an assistant coach and the co-interim head coach, and has a total of 12 years of coaching experience. …
Additionally, Nilson served as the recruiting coordinator for Penn State …
Recall that former Head Coast Sarah Brown left EMU for Penn State.
The two teams have swapped coaches. I hope it works out well for both.
Paul Stoklos retires after 33 years
Stoklos, who has led the gymnastics program since its founding, leaves University of Alaska Anchorage after 33 seasons, completing the longest tenure of any coach in Seawolf history.
The Wisconsin native coached more than 130 letterwinners from 1985 through 2017, while guiding the Seawolf program from the NCAA Div. II independent ranks to NCAA Div. I status …
Robert Ladanyi to Utah
… a 12-year veteran of NCAA women’s gymnastics coaching and former coach of the Romanian Junior National Team, has accepted a position as assistant coach of the Utah gymnastics team.
Ladanyi, an assistant coach at Florida from 2006-15, has spent the last two years as a Denver assistant. He replaces Meredith Paulicivic, who was hired as the head coach at Ohio State. …
decline in the number of NCAA Gymnastics teams
Shelli Koszdin:
Up until about 1992, the NCAA sponsorship of both men’s and women’s teams was declining at almost identical rate …
Around 1992, something happened to cause the fortunes of men’s and women’s teams to diverge. The decline of the women’s was slowed (but not halted) and that of the men accelerated. What happened? …
Stick it Media – Another Look at the Decline in NCAA Sponsorship of Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics
Josh Overton to Georgia
Josh Overton, a 19-year coaching veteran most recently overseeing the women’s team at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in Iowa, has been named an assistant for the Georgia Gym Dogs, according to an announcement Wednesday by Coach Courtney Kupets Carter. …
With Charlie Tamayo and volunteer Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, I think the team is in great shape for next season.
Some are a little worried:
… the Gym Dogs’ entire paid coaching staff has a combined 1 year of college coaching experience, and exactly 0 (zero, zip, nil) years of women’s college coaching experience. …
Meredith Paulicivic to Ohio
Meredith Paulicivic, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Utah, has been named women’s gymnastics head coach at Ohio State …
Buckeyes
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