Ohio State has hired recent 2026 Buckeye grad Mallory Gregory as a dual assistant coach and director of operations. She competed for the Ohio State before taking a medical retirement.
Link: Release
UNH has hired Kylie Kratchwell as their new Associate Head Coach. She was previously the Associate Head Coach at Arizona, but left earlier this summer. She's a former standout athlete at UNH.
Link: Insta
TWU has hired Megan Walker Thigpen as their new assistant coach. As Megan Walker, she was an All-American athlete at Auburn. Most recently, she has been coach/manager at Bay City Gymnastics in Alabama.
Link: Insta
Sarah Brown (née Shire) will depart Penn State to launch the new gymnastics program at Texas State. She has been at PSU since 2018. Prior to that, she was the Head Coach at EMU, a volunteer assistant at Michigan and an assistant at SEMO. A former elite US National Team members, she started her career at Utah before transferring and finishing her last three years at Missouri.
Link: PSU Release and Texas State Release
Utah commit Claire Pease won the gold in the AA at the 2026 Pan American Championships. 2028 grad Charleigh Bullock won the silver. LSU commit Lia Reddick was 6th, while Michigan's Jahzara Ranger, representing Jamaica, was 11th. Her Michigan teammate, Sophia Diaz, representing the Dominican Republic, was 13th. UCLA signee Michelle Pineda was 20th.
In the Men's AA competition, former NCAA champ and OU star Yul Moldauer won the bronze medal.
On Sunday, for the event finals, Former OU star Yul Moldauer won the PB gold and placed 4th on the PH and Rings, losing the tie-break on the latter to Canada's Felix Dolci. Air Force grade Patrick Hoopes won gold on the PH. Former Ohio State star Kameron Nelson was 5th on VT while Stanford grad Riley Loos tied for 6th on Rings, while fellow former Cardinal Taylor Burkhart was 6th on HB.
Pease won the gold on FX and a bronze on VT. She also placed 6th on UB. Florda signee Simone Rose won silver on the BB (losing the tiebreak for gold) and on UB. She was also 5th on VT. Iowa's Aurelie Tran, representing Canada, won the gold on UB. 2028 recruit Lia Monica Fontaine of Canada won the silver on VT, just behind Olympic Champion Rebecca Andrade.
In the team competition, the US women's team won the gold medal. The team includes 2028 grad Charliegh Bullock, Pease, Rose and 2028 grad Alessia Rosa. However, LSU commit Hezly Rivera withdrew from the competition after competing on VT. Canada took the bronze, with a team featuringTran, Utah signee Gabrielle Black, LSU commit Lia Redick and UGA commit Alexia Guerrier-Calixte. The US Men took the bronze, with a squad featuring Burkhart, Hoopes, Loos, Moldauer and Nelson. On the junior side, the USA Women and USA Men took the team gold. The US Men's squad includes Stanford signee Maksim Kan, Ohio State signee Anthony Ruscheinsky and OU signee Hunter Simpson.
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Minnesota has hired Grace McCallum as an assistant coach. She had been serving as a student assistant at Utah. The Minnesota native and Utah superstar is, of course, an Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Championships Gold Medalist.
Link: UMinn Release
Pitt has announced that Mollie Korth has been hired as an assistant coach. The former Kentucky superstar was an assistant and Nebraska the last two season. Prior to that, she was an assistant and a volunteer assistant at Georgia. She was also previously a volunteer assistant at Pitt.
Link: Release
Kent State has hired Emma Masse as an Assistant Coach. Masse graduated from Kent State this spring, after four years with the program.
Link: KSU Release
ASU has hired Gracie Reeves as an assisant. The former Gym Devil competed on all four events. She recently graduated with a master's in sports law and business, following her bachelor's in psychology.
Link: Insta
Missouri has hired former UGA assistant Oleksii Koltakov as an assistant coach. Prior to his two seasons at UGA, he was an assistant at Nebraska.
Link: Missouri Release
MSU has hired Alex Wright as an assistant. He comes with 15 years of coaching experience, and spent the last year at WOGA, with seven years at Texas Dreams prior to that.
Link: Insta
MSU has hired Rachel Inniss as an assistant. She was at Illinois for one season, and prior to that, she was at PSU for five seasons, Temple for two seasons. and a volunteer assistant at AU for two seasons As an athlete at Auburn, she was a Regional FX champ and NCAA qualifier.
Link: Release
Arkansas has promoted Catelyn (nee Orel) Branson and Kyla Ross to Associate Head Coaches.
Link: Release
UC Davis has promoted Rebekah Thompson to Associate Head Coach. She has been an assistant with the Aggies for three seasons.
Link: UCD Release