In just six days we’ll not only enter a new year but a brand new decade. But before we say goodbye to the 2010s for good, we thought we’d take the opportunity to look back on all that’s happened and changed over the past 10 years, from the first Olympic champions competing in NCAA to the farewells of three women’s gymnastics programs.
2010
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: UCLA
- All Around: Susan Jackson (LSU)
- Vault: Vanessa Zamarripa (UCLA)
- Bars: Carly Janiga (Stanford)
- Beam: Susan Jackson (LSU)
- Floor: Brittani McCullough (UCLA)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Bridgeport
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-La Crosse
- AAI Award Winner: Susan Jackson (LSU)
- Honda Award Winner: Susan Jackson (LSU)
- Coach of the Year: KJ Kindler (Oklahoma)
2011
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Alabama
- All Around: Kylee Botterman (Michigan)
- Vault: Marissa King (Florida)
- Bars: Kat Ding (Georgia)
- Beam: Samantha Peszek (UCLA)
- Floor: Geralen Stack-Eaton (Alabama)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Bridgeport
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-La Crosse
- AAI Award Winner: Kylee Botterman (Michigan)
- Honda Award Winner: Kayla Hoffman (Alabama)
- Coach of the Year: Brice Biggan (Kent State)
- UC-Fullerton’s program was cut after the 2011 season.
2012
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Alabama
- All Around: Kytra Hunter (Florida)
- Vault: Kytra Hunter (Florida)
- Bars: Kat Ding (Georgia)
- Beam: Geralen Stack-Eaton (Alabama)
- Floor: Kat Ding (Georgia)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Bridgeport
- NCGA National Team Champion: Brockport, UW-Whitewater
- AAI Award Winner: Amy Glass (Boise State)
- Honda Award Winner: Kytra Hunter (Florida)
- Coach of the Year: Carey Fagan (Ohio State)
- Wilson College, a DIII program was cut after the 2012 season.
2013
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Florida
- All Around: Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Vault: Diandra Milliner (Alabama) and Rheagan Courville (LSU)
- Bars: Alaina Johnson (Florida)
- Beam: Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Floor: Joanna Sampson (Michigan)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Bridgeport
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-Whitewater
- AAI Award Winner: Vanessa Zamarripa (UCLA)
- Honda Award Winner: Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Coach of the Year: Meg Stephenson (Minnesota)
- Lindenwood had its first season in 2013.
- Florida becomes the first team outside of Alabama, Georgia, UCLA and Utah to win an NCAA women’s collegiate national championship.
- Florida’s Bridget Sloan became the first world all around gold medalist to compete in college.
2014
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Florida and Oklahoma
- All Around: Kim Jacob (Alabama)
- Vault: Katherine Grable (Arkansas) and Rheagan Courville (LSU)
- Bars: Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Beam: Taylor Spears (Oklahoma)
- Floor: Katherine Grable (Arkansas)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Bridgeport
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-Whitewater
- AAI Award Winner: Emily Wong (Nebraska)
- Honda Award Winner: Kim Jacob (Alabama)
- Coach of the Year: D-D Breaux (LSU)
- Legendary Alabama head coach Sarah Patterson retired after the 2014 season.
2015
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Florida
- All Around: Samantha Peszek (UCLA) and Kytra Hunter (Florida)
- Vault: Elizabeth Price (Stanford)
- Bars: Georgia Dabritz (Utah)
- Beam: Samantha Peszek (UCLA)
- Floor: Kytra Hunter (Florida)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Lindenwood
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-La Crosse
- AAI Award Winner: Georgia Dabritz (Utah)
- Honda Award Winner: Kytra Hunter (Florida)
- Coach of the Year: KJ Kindler (Oklahoma)
- Sloan completed the Gym Slam after her perfect 10 on bars on March 13.
- Legendary Utah head coach Greg Marsden retired after the 2015 season.
2016
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Oklahoma
- All Around: Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Vault: Brandie Jay (Georgia) and Katie Bailey (Alabama)
- Bars: Brittany Rogers (Georgia), Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Beam: Bridget Sloan (Florida), Danusia Francis (UCLA)
- Floor: Nina McGee (Denver)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Lindenwood
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-La Crosse
- AAI Award Winner: Lindsay Mable (Minnesota)
- Honda Award Winner: Bridget Sloan (Florida)
- Coach of the Year: Justin Howell (California)
- The full-twisting Yurchenko saw its first year as a 9.95 start value vault in 2016.
- 2015 also marked the last year for NCAA individual event finals.
2017
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Oklahoma
- All Around: Alex McMurtry (Florida)
- Vault: Kennedi Edney (LSU)
- Bars: Alex McMurtry (Florida), Katie Bailey (Alabama), Sarah Finnegan (LSU), Kyla Ross (UCLA), Nicole Lehrmann (Oklahoma), Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- Beam: Kyla Ross (UCLA)
- Floor: Ashleigh Gnat (LSU), MyKayla Skinner (Utah)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Texas Woman’s
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-Whitewater
- AAI Award Winner: Ashleigh Gnat (LSU)
- Honda Award Winner: Alex McMurtry (Florida)
- Coach of the Year: D-D Breaux (LSU)
- UCLA’s Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian became the first Olympic champions to compete in the NCAA.
- Ross also became the first gymnast to win an Olympic, world and NCAA title.
- Nichols completed the Gym Slam after her perfect 10 on bars on March 4.
2018
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: UCLA
- All Around: Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- Vault: Brenna Dowell (Oklahoma), MyKayla Skinner (Utah), Alex McMurtry (Florida)
- Bars: Elizabeth Price (Stanford), Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- Beam: Peng-Peng Lee (UCLA)
- Floor: Katelyn Ohashi (UCLA), Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Texas Woman’s
- NCGA National Team Champion: UW-Whitewater
- AAI Award Winner: Elizabeth Price (Stanford)
- Honda Award Winner: Peng-Peng Lee (UCLA)
- Coach of the Year: Tim Garrison (Kentucky)
- Nichols completed her second Gym Slam after her perfect 10 on bars on April 20.
- McMurtry completed the Gym Slam after her perfect 10 on floor on February 24.
- Kentucky qualified to nationals for the first time in program history.
2019
- NCAA National Championships Results
- Team: Oklahoma
- All Around: Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- Vault: Kyla Ross (UCLA), Kennedi Edney (LSU), Derrian Gobourne (Auburn), Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- Bars: Sarah Finnegan (LSU)
- Beam: Natalie Wojcik (Michigan)
- Floor: Kyla Ross (UCLA), Alicia Boren (Florida), Lynnzee Brown (Denver), Brenna Dowell (Oklahoma)
- USAG Collegiate National Team Champion: Lindenwood
- NCGA National Team Champion: Brockport
- AAI Award Winner: Sarah Finnegan (LSU)
- Honda Award Winner: Maggie Nichols (Oklahoma)
- Coach of the Year: Melissa Kutcher-Rinehart (Denver)
- UIC’s program was cut after the 2019 season.
- Ross completed two Gym Slams in 2019, completing her first on March 16 after scoring a perfect 10 on floor, and her second on March 23 after receiving yet another perfect 10 on floor.
- Legendary UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos-Field retired after the 2019 season.
- 2019 marked the first year of the new postseason format, with only eight teams making nationals and only four qualifying to the final.
Head Coaches Who Remained With Their Program for the Entire Decade
Jeff Graba (Auburn, hired in 2010), Neil Resnick (Boise State, hired 2008, retired after 2019 season), Kerrie Turner (Bowling Green, hired 2007), Byron Knox (Bridgeport, hired 2005), John Feeney (Brockport, hired 1999), Sara Carver-Milne (Brown, hired 2002), Paul Beckwith (Cornell, hired 1994), Melissa Kutcher-Rinehart (Denver, hired 1999), Margie Foster-Cunningham (George Washington, hired 1986), Doug Byrnes (Hamline, promoted to head coach 1999), Bob Conkling (Illinois State, hired 2005), Larissa Libby (Iowa, promoted to head coach 2007), Jay Ronayne (Iowa State, hired 2006), Rick Suddaby (Ithaca, hired 1985), Brice Biggin (Kent State, promoted to head coach 1989), D-D Breaux (LSU, hired 1978), Brett Nelligan (Maryland, promoted to head coach 2009), Bev Plocki (Michigan, hired 1990), Gail Goodspeed (New Hampshire, hired 1979, retired after 2019 season), Derek Galvin (North Carolina, hired 1981), K.J. Kindler (Oklahoma, hired 2006), Tanya Chaplin (Oregon State, hired 1998), John Ceralde (Pennsylvania, hired 2006), Laurel Tindall (Seattle Pacific, hired 1973, retired after 2019 season), Jerry Nelson (Southern Connecticut, hired 2004, retired after 2019 season), Scotty Bauman (Southern Utah, hired 1991), John Lavallee (UC Davis, hired 2007), Valorie Kondos-Field (UCLA, promoted to head coach 1991, retired after 2019 season), Megan Marsden (Utah, promoted to co-head coach 2010, retired after 2019 season), Lauren Karnitz (UW-Oshkosh, hired 2008), Becky Beaulieu (UW-Stout, hired 2005), Jennifer Regan (UW-Whitewater, hired 2002), Barbara Cordova (West Chester, hired 2010), Mary Lewis (William & Mary, hired 1994, retired after 2019 season), Beckie Rolbiecki (Winona, hired 2005), Barbara Tonry (Yale, hired 1973)
Article by Elizabeth Grimsley, Emily Minehart and Rebecca Scally
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Neither Rhonda nor Val winning coach of the year but KJ and DD both winning twice this decade is…interesting
Mark Cook stayed with Arkansas the entire decade. Hired 2001 retired after 2019 season.
2012 NCGA champs was a tie between Brockport and UW Whitewater.
Thank you! We have made that update.
Kyla got her second gym slam after getting a ten at regionals on beam.