Illinois has appointed Kim Landrus Head Coach.  Landrus served as Interim Head Coach this season.  She replaced Bob Starkell, who resigned last summer.  Landrus has been with the team's coaching staff for nine years.

Announcement

Cal has named NU Associate Head Coach Danna Durante as the new Head Coach for the reinstated Berkeley program.  She was National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2007, and West Region Assistant of the Year in 1999 and 2002.  Prior to nine years at NU, she was at Washington.  As Danna Lister, she was a star athlete at ASU and as an elite National Team member and Olympic Trials participant from the state of Oklahoma.       

Link:  Cal Release

Cal has announced that the Men's Gymnastics team will be preserved as an intercollegiate sport, with some restrictions.  Over $2.5M has been raised so far, in support of the program.  This is however short of the $4M the University says is necessary to support the program at full funding for at least 7 to 10 years.  As a result, the program will be unable to award new scholarships until the funding is in place.  This coming season will be the 100th at Cal!  The other four programs that were proposed to be cut, including Women's Gymnastics, have all been previously restored.

For information on how to make a pledge, please see Cal Gymnastics Forever.

Link:  Cal Statement

Elizabeth Stranahan, junior next season, and Shea Anderson, a senior next season, both earned scholarships for the coming school year at Iowa State.  Both are former walkons, according to the Cylcone release.

Link:  Iowa State Release

Tim Garrison has been named the new Head Coach at Kentucky.  He was an assistant at Nebraska since 2007.  Prior to that he was a coach at SCEGA.

Link:  UK Release

Kayla Hoffman has been named winner of this year's Honda Award for Gymnastics according to a news article.  The other finalists for the award were Kylee Botterman, Brittani McCullough and Sharaya Musser. 

Bama Announcement

West Virginia has promoted current Associate Head Coach Jason Butts to be the new Head Coach at WVU.  He replaces Linda Burdette-Good, who is retiring.  He was named the Regional Assistant of the Year in 2009 and 2010.  A graduate of UGA, he will receive a master's from WVU in December. 

Link:  WVU Release

Kent State Head Coach Brice Biggin was named Coach of the Year and assistants Sharon Sabin and Tom Ward were named Assistants of the Year by the NACGC/W.

Link:  Kent St Release

Here are the final Men's National Rankings, courtesy of Troester GymInfo:

Link:  Troester.com GymInfo

Here are the final Women's National Rankings from Troester.com, based on National finish or National Qualifying Score (RQS plus Regional score):

Link:  Full List