Nebraska has hired former NCAA Champion and Lincoln native Jordan Gamboa (nee Bowers) as an assistant. She was the 2025 NCAA AA Champion and Honda Award Winner for gymnastics. She was a 28-time All-American and eight-time Regional Champion. She was a student coach for the Sooners this past season.
Link: NU Release
OU senior and NCAA AA champion Faith Torrez was named the Honda Sports Award winner for Gymnastics.
Link: OU Release
Georgia has hired Brenna Brooks as an assistant coach. Brooks has spent the last two seasons at Iowa as an assistant, and one at Washington, where she competed.
Link: UGA Release
Natalie Broekman has been named the new Head Coach at BYU. She had been serving as Associate Head Coach since 2021, and joined the BYU staff in 2015. Broekman (nee Emig) was a former All-American at BYU and elite gymnast. She also coached at Gold Medal gymnastics for nine years.
Link: BYU Release
Denver has hired 2026 student assistant Ava Mabanta as a full-time assistant following her graduation. She competed for DU for three seasons before taking a medical retirement and serving as a student assistant.
Link: DU Release
Utah has hired Steve Arkell as an assistant coach. Arkell is a USA National Team coach with more than 40 years of experience and is head coach at Prime Gymnastics in Texas.
Link: Utah Release
Auburn has hired Adam Duncan and Sophia Davila (née Groth) as assistants. Duncan has been a coach and clinician for over 17 years in the Dallas area. He has coached WOGA, Empire and Kurt Thomas Gymnastics. He has also worked in corporate finance since 2022 at Capital One. Davila was a two-time All American at Auburn, where she competed from 2022 to 2025. She has spent the past year working at SMU as an Athletics Development Assistant.
Link: Duncan Release and Davila Release
New AU Head Coach Ryan Roberts has named Aja Sims-Fletcher as Associate Head Coach. Sims-Fletcher was most recently as assistant at Illinois, and prior to that, Head Coach at Talladega. She was also an assistant at Alabama, where she was also a three-time All-American.
Link: AU Release
Jordyn Wieber Brooks will step down at Arkansas after seven years at the helm. She will step away from athletics and take the time to focus on her family and pursue other interests. Her husband, Chris Brooks, will take over as Head Coach.
Link: Arkansas Release
The NCAA Division I Board of Directors announced on Monday that it has directed its Division I Cabinet to advance talks on providing student-athletes with up to five years of eligibility, beginning the regular academic year after they turn 19 or graduate from high school, whichever happens earlier. The Cabinet is set to meet next on May 22nd. The proposal would not extended to the current 2025-2026 graduating athletes. The athletes would have five years of eligibility in five years and would do away with redshirt or medical waivers.
Link: USA Today and NCAA Release
Arizona has announced the hiring of Julie Ballard Clark and Emma Strom as assistant coaches. Ballard Clark was an assistant, director of operations and assistant coach at Georgia for 12 years and was a two-time All-American as an athlete. Most recently she was a personal trainer in Louisiana and prior to that, Head Coach and Program Director at Pinnacle Gymnastics in Colorado. Strom is an upcoming graduate of Arizona, having earned All Big 12 honors on the FX. She competed on up to three events for the Wildcats.
Link: UA Release
Nebraska has hired Nicole Jones (nee Curler) as their new Head Coach. She had been the Associate Head Coach at Michigan State for nine seasons, and a total of 16 seasons on the Spartan Coaching staff. She was also a standout athlete at MSU.
Link: NU Release
Two coaches have departed Arizona: Associate Kylie Kratchwell and assistant coach Shelby Martinez. Martinez is taking a position at Arizona Dynamics as Head Coach and Team Coordinator. Prior to the season, former Associate Head Coach Taylor Spears left the profession.
Link: Insta (Az) and Kratchwell's Insta
Georgia has hired former standout Megan Haught (nee Dolan) as an assistant coach. She has been a coach at Denver this past season and was a long-time coach at WOGA. She was a former elite at WOGA and a National level gymnastics judge. Georgia previously made Cecile Canqueteau-Landi the sole Head Coach after the departure of Ryan Roberts.
Link: UGA Release