The Utah Utes women's gymnastics team, also known as the Red Rocks, represents the

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and competes at the Division I level of the

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(NCAA) as members of the

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. Home meets are held in the

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. As of the end of the 2021 season, the Red Rocks have won 10 national championships, including nine NCAA Gymnastics championships, and been runner-up nine times. The Red Rocks are the only team to have qualified for every NCAA Championships and have never finished lower than 10th. The team was coached from its inception by Greg Marsden until his retirement after the 2015 season.

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is the current head coach, after the retirement of Megan Marsden in 2019.

History

The Utah Utes gymnastics team first competed in 1976. The team first appeared on

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in 1978 and has appeared every year since then. The

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first sponsored women's gymnastics national championships in 1982. Utah is the only team to qualify for every national championship that has been held.

Pac-12 Conference

The University of Utah became a member of the newly expanded Pac-12 Conference in 2011, and the Red Rocks became one of eight teams in the conference to compete in women's gymnastics. Utah has taken the Pac-12 Championships five times since joining the conference, winning in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021, and 2022. The Red Rocks have won or shared a portion of the Regular Season Pac-12 Championship since its inauguration - the 2020 season is the first time each of the eight Pac-12 teams competed against every other team in the conference. The Red Rocks won outright in 2020 and 2021, and shared the title in a four-way tie in 2022. Utah gymnasts have won the individual all-around title at the Pac-12 Championship seven times:

Nickname

The nickname "Red Rocks" has its origins in the Utah Gymnastics 1992 media guide cover photo.Miller, Ryan
Gymnastics notes: the origin of the nickname “Red Rocks”
The Daily Utah Chronicle, Feb 23, 2015, Notes: The article incorrectly states 1993. At the time, all Utah women's sports teams used the moniker "Lady Utes". The name is a combination of "how rock solid they are, but also the red rock of southern Utah.” The 1992 team won the NCAA championship, with the name sticking.

Roster

*Head Coach:

*Assistant Coaches: Carly Dockendorf, Jimmy Pratt, Myia Hambrick

National records

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*Utah has won a record 10 national championships (tied with

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). Nine of them were

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s and one was an AIAW Women's Gymnastics championship in 1981 before the NCAA adopted women's gymnastics. *Utah ties with Georgia for the record of the most consecutive NCAA national championships with 5 (1982–1986). *Utah has qualified for every national championship since its creation in 1976, the only team to do so. *Utah qualified for every AIAW championship between 1976 and 1981. After gymnastics was adopted by the NCAA in 1982, Utah is the only team to have qualified for every NCAA national championship. *Utah has the most All-American gymnast awards of any school with 379. *Utah gymnastics set the longest regular season home win streak of any

sport at 23 years (1979–2002) and 170 meets. *Utah has led the nation in gymnastics attendance 36 times and has won ten all-women's sports attendance titles. *On March 6, 2015, Utah had an overflow crowd of 16,019 on hand for its win over

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, setting the NCAA gymnastics record for largest crowd in a single meet. *In the 2020 season, Utah averaged a record 15,273 fans per meet. Between 2010 and 2020, Utah averaged more than 14,500 fans a meet.

Coaches

Head coaches

Greg Marsden was hired in 1976 to begin the gymnastics program. Marsden coached Utah for 40 straight years. He is the only collegiate gymnastics coach to amass 1,000 wins and earn Coach of the Year honors seven times. He has never had a team finish worse than tenth place overall. In July 2009 Megan Marsden was named co-head coach of the Red Rocks. Megan, in addition to being Greg's wife, is a former member of the squad and has been an assistant coach since 1985. After the 2015 season, Greg retired and his wife Megan and assistant coach

were named co-head coaches. On 22 April 2019, Megan Marsden announced her retirement, and it was confirmed that current co-head coach

would continue as the sole head coach.

Coaches for the 2021-2022 season

Post-season history

NCAA Champions

As of the end of the 2022 season, 16 different Utah gymnasts have won a total of 30 individual event championships.

Team records

Top team total

Top event totals

Top Individual All-Around

Past Olympians

Missy Marlowe Melissa Anne "Missy" Marlowe (born August 25, 1971) is an American retired gymnast. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Marlowe, who grew up in Salt Lake City, competed for the University of Utah gymnastics team and was a five-time NCAA ...

(

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) * Daria Bijak (

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) *

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(2008) * Corrie Lothrop (2008 alternate) *

MyKayla Skinner MyKayla Brooke Skinner Harmer (born December 9, 1996) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was the 2020 Olympic vault silver medalist and was an alternate for the 2016 Olympic team. Skinner competed at the 2014 World Championships wh ...

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alternate,

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)

Grace McCallum Grace Ann McCallum (born October 30, 2002) is an American artistic gymnast. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the team event. She is the 2018 Pan American and 2018 Pacific Rim individual a ...

(2020)

Amelie Morgan Amelie Morgan (born 31 May 2003) is a British artistic gymnast. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event. She is the 2021 European Championships bronze medalist on the uneven bars. Ad ...

(2020)

Kara Eaker Kara Eaker (born November 7, 2002) is an American artistic gymnast. On the balance beam she is the 2018 Pan American and 2019 Pan American Games champion and a two-time United States national silver medalist (2018, 2019). On floor exercise she ...

(2020 alternate)

References

External links

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