All Things Gymnastics Podcast

This week, we’re joined by one of the most legendary head coaches in college gymnastics: KJ Kindler, head coach of the seven-time NCAA champion Oklahoma Sooners. After missing the NCAA finals in 2024, Oklahoma rebounded in dominant fashion to win the national title in 2025. As the Sooners prepare for the 2026 season and their second year in the SEC, Kindler reflects on last season, how the team us...

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome University of Minnesota head coach Jenny Hansen to the podcast for the very first time as part of this series. We’re incredibly grateful she took the time to join us, and we’re excited about what Minnesota could bring to the table this season. The Gophers are coming off a strong year, finishing third at the Big Ten Championships and second in the regular season sta...

We continue our Coaches Corner series this week with one of our most anticipated interviews — Jay Clark from LSU. We’re thrilled to welcome Jay to the show following another strong year for LSU. The Tigers captured the SEC Championship and the regular-season SEC title, spent the entire season ranked in the top three nationally, won regionals, and crowned an individual NCAA champion in freshman Kal...

Our Coaches Corner series continues this week with another guest interviewer — our friend Anthony is back to interview UCLA head coach Janelle McDonald! UCLA put itself back in national title contention last season by winning its first Big Ten Championship title with the highest score in Big Ten Championship history, and by finishing as the national runner-up at the NCAA Championship. This season,...

Our Coaches Corner series continues this week with Florida Head Coach Jenny Rowland, who is heading into her 11th season with the Gators. Under Rowland, Florida has enjoyed tremendous success — making eight NCAA Championship appearances, including seven trips to the NCAA finals, and earning four SEC Championships. Still, the program is hungry to return to the top of the NCAA Championship podium, a...

This week, we’re joined by Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, who is heading into her second season as co-head coach of the Georgia GymDogs and is eager to build on what they started last year. Georgia spent most of the season inside the top 10 — something the program hadn’t done in a while — and although things didn’t end the way they hoped, the GymDogs showed they’re ready to reenter the conversation for...

This week, we’re thrilled to be joined by Geralen Stack-Eaton, recently named the 14th head coach at Cal. She spent 11 seasons as an assistant coach at Minnesota before coming to Berkeley, helping the Golden Gophers qualify for three NCAA Championships and capture the program’s first Big Ten title in 15 years in 2021. Prior to coaching, she was a standout gymnast at Alabama, where she helped the C...

We’re so excited about this week’s Coaches Corner interview with none other than Jordyn Wieber, now in her sixth season as head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks! Even with some key injuries last season, the Razorbacks still put together a strong run. Remember, they upset both LSU and Florida when those teams were ranked No. 2 in the nation! While the end of the season didn’t go quite as planned —...

This week we’re a little late — but better late than never! We were able to watch practice yesterday at MSU, and afterward, we sat down with the 2025 WCGA Regional Assistant Coaches of the Year — associate head coach Nicole Curler Jones and assistant coach Devin Wright — to preview the upcoming season. MSU is coming off its best finish in program history, advancing to the NCAA Championships for on...

This week’s guest is making their lineup debut for the Coaches Corner series. After last season’s historic performance, there was no way we couldn’t have Shannon Welker on to preview the upcoming season for the Missouri Tigers. Last season, Mizzou finished third — the highest finish in program history — and reached several other milestones, including advancing to the evening session of the SEC Cha...

We’re excited to continue the Coaches Corner series this week with our interview with Utah head coach Carly Dockendorf. Utah is coming off its 50th year as a program, and even though it wasn’t the ending the Utes had hoped for — finishing fourth — it was still a very successful year. They won the Big 12 title in their first year in the conference and qualified for the Final Four for the fifth cons...

We’re kicking off the third annual Coaches Corner series with none other than Jeff Graba, head coach of the Auburn Tigers. Last season, Auburn came in with one of the most highly anticipated freshman classes in the country and looked poised to make a strong run to nationals. Unfortunately, mid-season injuries to two key all-arounders — freshman Katelyn Jong and senior Olivia Hollingsworth — made f...

5-time All-American Amari Celestine joins us to talk about her plan to train for the LA 2028 Olympics! Thank you to our monthly Patreon supporters:  Lee B, Cookiemaster, Christa, Happy Girl, Erica S, Semflam, Amy C, Maria L, Becca S, Cathleen R, Faith, Kerry M, M, Derek H, Martin, Sharon B, Randee B, MSU, Kimberly G, Robert H, Lela M, Mara L, Jenna A, Alex M, Mama T, Kelsey, Lidia, Maria P, Alicia...

Today’s guest is someone who has already made history for her team — and she’s only a sophomore. We’re talking about the one and only Chloe Cho! Chloe earned four Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, the most in program history for Illinois. She also took home the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award at the end of the season, becoming only the third gymnast in program history to achieve that honor....

Today’s guest is a consistency queen and one of the leaders of Kentucky’s team – Delaynee Rodriquez. Delaynee is underrated in the sense that she’s not necessarily the one bringing home all the awards or accolades, but she’s the one silently killing it in the background for her team—starting them off strong week after week and consistently delivering reliable 9.85+ scores on every event, giving he...

This week, we’re taking a break from our college gymnastics interviews to chat with a rising star for USA Gymnastics. We’re excited to be joined by Charleigh Bullock, who recently became the junior national champion on the uneven bars and won five gold medals at the Junior Pan American Games. Despite being a junior, Charleigh has proven herself to be one of the top bar workers in the U.S. — her ro...

This week, we are joined by UCLA gymnastics icon Katelyn Rosen, who came roaring back after a slow start to her sophomore season to help the Bruins win their first-ever Big Ten title last season, as well as finish second as a team at the NCAA Championships — their best postseason finish since 2019. We’re so excited to have Katelyn back on the show to talk about the highs and lows of last season an...

Today we are joined by fan favorite Ondine Achampong, a World and European medalist for Great Britain who was a favorite to make the Paris Olympic team before an ACL injury took her out of contention just three months before the Games. Ondine shocked the gymnastics world last season when she worked her way into Cal’s beam lineup around 10 months after tearing her ACL—an injury that takes most gymn...

Today, we’re excited to be joined by Jennifer Williams — an elite gymnast from Sweden, a 2025 European Beam and Floor finalist, and an incoming freshman at Stanford University. Unfortunately, just a few days after we recorded this interview, Jennifer partially ruptured her PCL, a ligament in her knee. As a result, her elite season has sadly come to an end, and her NCAA season is now uncertain, dep...

You already know — we’re huge Michigan fans, so we are especially excited about today’s guest. Joining us is the brand new head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Maile’ana Kanewa-Hermelyn. Maile has been a key part of the Michigan coaching staff for the past seven seasons — six as an assistant coach and one as a volunteer assistant. Before that, she was a gymnast at the University of Oklahoma, whe...

We’re so excited to be joined by London Phillips, a former elite gymnast from the early to mid-2000s, best known for being the first gymnast to compete a double layout half out on floor — the skill now known as the Biles I in the Code of Points. London performed this groundbreaking skill in 2005, along with a number of other extremely difficult and original elements that were well ahead of their t...

This week, we’re thrilled to be joined by fifth-year senior Courtney Blackson! A few weeks ago, Courtney announced that she’ll be using her final year of eligibility at LSU after taking a full year away from the sport. She previously spent four years at Boise State University, where she was a two-time NCAA individual qualifier and the national runner-up on vault in 2023. Now, she brings her talent...

This will be our final episode in the Recruit Reflection series, and we’re excited to be joined by Giselle Guenther, a level 10 gymnast from Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy who is actively going through the recruiting process. Giselle was one of the athletes in the class of 2027 who stood out to us because she improved so much in just one year. It’s pretty remarkable when you scroll through her Inst...

This week, we are so excited to be joined by Houry Gebeshian from Full Out to talk all things college recruiting. During her time as a gymnast, Houry competed in college gymnastics at Iowa, where she was a Big Ten Champion on beam in 2010 and an NCAA individual all-around qualifier in 2011. In 2016, she became the first female gymnast to represent Armenia at the Olympic Games, and she also secured...

This week we are joined by Addi Doan, an incoming freshman at Texas Woman’s University. Addi reached out wanting to share her recruiting experience with our listeners because she overcame significant adversity to get where she is today. She wants the future generation to know that you don’t need a long Level 10 or elite resume to receive interest from college coaches. Prior to June 15, Addi suffer...