Completed Event: Gymnastics versus NCAA Championship Final on April 19, 2025 , , 4th of 4 (197.2375)
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Gymnastics
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Gymnastics
Marsden, Megan
Megan Marsden
- Title:
- Women's Gymnastics Co-Head Coach
- Phone:
- 801-581-6221
Megan Marsden
Utah Gymnastics Coach
2010-2019: Co-Head Coach
1997-2009: Associate Head Coach
1985-1996: Assistant Coach
Coaching Synopsis
Co-Head Coaching Record: 222-80-3 (10 years)
NCAA Championship Appearances: 35
NCAA Championships (team): 6
NCAA Team Championships: 6
NCAA Individual Champions: 12
All-Americans: 222
Region Head Coach of the Year: 2011, 2012
Pac-12 Coach of the Year: 2014, 2015
National Assistant Coach of the Year: 2005
Region Assistant Coach of the Year: 2005, 2007
Megan Marsden, one of the most iconic names in the history of college gymnastics, retired on Apr. 22, 2019 after 35 years on the Utah coaching staff. As the co-head coach from 2010-19, Marsden recorded a 222-80-3 record, three Pac-12 Championships and an NCAA runner-up finish in 2015.
No coach in NCAA gymnastics history can boast the combined gymnastics and coaching accomplishments of Marsden, who starred on four national champion teams at Utah from 1981-84 and helped coach the Utes to another six national titles. Utah never missed a national championship in Marsden’s 39 years in the program. As the most decorated college gymnast of her time, the former Megan McCunniff graduated from the U. in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations, three individual NCAA titles (two all-around, one vault) and 12 first-team All-America awards.
After graduating, she became an assistant on Greg Marsden’s staff, later earning promotions to associate (1997) and co-head (2010) coach. Utah qualified into the NCAA Championships all 35 seasons with her on the staff, winning national titles in 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995, and finishing as the NCAA runner-up eight times—most recently in 2015.
She was a two-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2014, 2015 with Greg Marsden) and two-time Regional Coach of the Year (2011, 2012). She was also the 2005 National Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2005 and 2007 Regional Assistant Coach of the Year.
In her decade as the co-head coach, Ute gymnasts won two NCAA individual titles (floor and vault by MyKayla Skinner in 2017-18) and the AAI award recognizing the nation’s best senior gymnast (Georgia Dabritz in 2015). Over the course of her career, gymnasts coached by Marsden won 11 total NCAA titles—seven on the balance beam, three on floor and one on vault—and 222 All-America awards. Marsden is the only coach in history to mentor multiple gymnasts to back-to-back NCAA beam titles: Missy Marlowe in 1991-92 and Summer Reid in 1996-97. Other NCAA beam champions under Marsden were Theresa Kulikowski in 1999 and 2001, and Ashley Postell in 2007.
Utah excelled in eight years of Pac-12 membership during Marsden’s tenure, winning Pac-12 titles in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and was the only program to finish in the top three at every Pac-12 Championship. Tory Wilson in 2014 and Dabritz in 2015 won Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year honors and a Ute won the Pac-12 all-around title six times, including five straight from 2014-17 (Wilson in 2014, Dabritz in 2015, Breanna Hughes in 2016 and Skinner in 2017 and 2018). Corrie Lothrop won the first Pac-12 all-around title in 2012.
Other Pac-12 award winners under Marsden were Scholar-Athlete of the Year Stephanie McAllister (2012), Dabritz (2015) and Hughes (2016); Freshman of the Year Dabritz (2012) and Sabrina Schwab (2016); and Specialist of the Year (Dabritz (2014) and Kassandra Lopez (2016).
The program also excelled academically with Utah finishing among the top five gymnastics teams in the country in GPA from 2012-16, placing first in 2014 and second in 2015 and 2016. The 2018 Utes ranked first academically among the teams that qualified into the NCAA Championships and No. 8 overall. Three of Marsden’s gymnasts were named first-team CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (Daria Bijak in 2010, Dabritz in 2015 and Hughes in 2016). Shannon McNatt won an NCAA Elite 90 award in 2019 for accumulating the highest GPA of a team member participating at the site of the NCAA final.
Marsden stepped into coaching one year after winning the 1984 Broderick Award as the country’s top collegiate female gymnast. She performed gymnastics on one other occasion after her competitive career, appearing in the 1986 movie “American Anthem” as gymnast Jo Ellen Carter.
In 1996, Marsden became the first gymnast inducted into the Utah athletics department’s Crimson Club Hall of Fame. In 2003, she was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.
The Cedar Falls, Iowa, native and husband Greg have two sons, Montana and Dakota. Greg retired in 2015 after 40 years as the founding coach of Utah gymnastics.
Megan Marsden’s Head Coaching Mark
Utah Gymnastics Coach
2010-2019: Co-Head Coach
1997-2009: Associate Head Coach
1985-1996: Assistant Coach
Coaching Synopsis
Co-Head Coaching Record: 222-80-3 (10 years)
NCAA Championship Appearances: 35
NCAA Championships (team): 6
NCAA Team Championships: 6
NCAA Individual Champions: 12
All-Americans: 222
Region Head Coach of the Year: 2011, 2012
Pac-12 Coach of the Year: 2014, 2015
National Assistant Coach of the Year: 2005
Region Assistant Coach of the Year: 2005, 2007
Megan Marsden, one of the most iconic names in the history of college gymnastics, retired on Apr. 22, 2019 after 35 years on the Utah coaching staff. As the co-head coach from 2010-19, Marsden recorded a 222-80-3 record, three Pac-12 Championships and an NCAA runner-up finish in 2015.
No coach in NCAA gymnastics history can boast the combined gymnastics and coaching accomplishments of Marsden, who starred on four national champion teams at Utah from 1981-84 and helped coach the Utes to another six national titles. Utah never missed a national championship in Marsden’s 39 years in the program. As the most decorated college gymnast of her time, the former Megan McCunniff graduated from the U. in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations, three individual NCAA titles (two all-around, one vault) and 12 first-team All-America awards.
After graduating, she became an assistant on Greg Marsden’s staff, later earning promotions to associate (1997) and co-head (2010) coach. Utah qualified into the NCAA Championships all 35 seasons with her on the staff, winning national titles in 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995, and finishing as the NCAA runner-up eight times—most recently in 2015.
She was a two-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2014, 2015 with Greg Marsden) and two-time Regional Coach of the Year (2011, 2012). She was also the 2005 National Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2005 and 2007 Regional Assistant Coach of the Year.
In her decade as the co-head coach, Ute gymnasts won two NCAA individual titles (floor and vault by MyKayla Skinner in 2017-18) and the AAI award recognizing the nation’s best senior gymnast (Georgia Dabritz in 2015). Over the course of her career, gymnasts coached by Marsden won 11 total NCAA titles—seven on the balance beam, three on floor and one on vault—and 222 All-America awards. Marsden is the only coach in history to mentor multiple gymnasts to back-to-back NCAA beam titles: Missy Marlowe in 1991-92 and Summer Reid in 1996-97. Other NCAA beam champions under Marsden were Theresa Kulikowski in 1999 and 2001, and Ashley Postell in 2007.
Utah excelled in eight years of Pac-12 membership during Marsden’s tenure, winning Pac-12 titles in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and was the only program to finish in the top three at every Pac-12 Championship. Tory Wilson in 2014 and Dabritz in 2015 won Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year honors and a Ute won the Pac-12 all-around title six times, including five straight from 2014-17 (Wilson in 2014, Dabritz in 2015, Breanna Hughes in 2016 and Skinner in 2017 and 2018). Corrie Lothrop won the first Pac-12 all-around title in 2012.
Other Pac-12 award winners under Marsden were Scholar-Athlete of the Year Stephanie McAllister (2012), Dabritz (2015) and Hughes (2016); Freshman of the Year Dabritz (2012) and Sabrina Schwab (2016); and Specialist of the Year (Dabritz (2014) and Kassandra Lopez (2016).
The program also excelled academically with Utah finishing among the top five gymnastics teams in the country in GPA from 2012-16, placing first in 2014 and second in 2015 and 2016. The 2018 Utes ranked first academically among the teams that qualified into the NCAA Championships and No. 8 overall. Three of Marsden’s gymnasts were named first-team CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (Daria Bijak in 2010, Dabritz in 2015 and Hughes in 2016). Shannon McNatt won an NCAA Elite 90 award in 2019 for accumulating the highest GPA of a team member participating at the site of the NCAA final.
Marsden stepped into coaching one year after winning the 1984 Broderick Award as the country’s top collegiate female gymnast. She performed gymnastics on one other occasion after her competitive career, appearing in the 1986 movie “American Anthem” as gymnast Jo Ellen Carter.
In 1996, Marsden became the first gymnast inducted into the Utah athletics department’s Crimson Club Hall of Fame. In 2003, she was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.
The Cedar Falls, Iowa, native and husband Greg have two sons, Montana and Dakota. Greg retired in 2015 after 40 years as the founding coach of Utah gymnastics.
Megan Marsden’s Head Coaching Mark
| Year | Overall Record | Regular Season Record |
Conference Championship |
Regional Championship |
National Championship |
| 2010 | 19-10 | 11-3 | -- | 2nd | 6th |
| 2011 | 16-10 | 8-3 | -- | 2nd | 5th |
| 2012 | 23-9 | 7-3 | 2nd | 1st | 5th |
| 2013 | 20-9-1 | 10-2-1 | 3rd | 2nd | 9th |
| 2014 | 24-6 | 10-3 | 1st | 1st | 7th |
| 2015 | 30-3-1 | 11-1 | 1st | 2nd | 2nd |
| 2016 | 19-7-1 | 9-1 | 2nd-T | 1st | 9th |
| 2017 | 26-8-0 | 10-2 | 1st | 1st | 5th |
| 2018 | 24-10 | 9-3 | 2nd | 1st | 5th |
| 2019 | 21-8 | 10-3 | 2nd | 2nd | 7th |
| Totals | 222-80-3 | 95-24-1 |
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