2023 coaching changes and athlete transfer portal

[RedBirdie]

Jade was at Oasis, which I thought the Careys owned. But then Jade and Brian went to Arizona Sunrays for most of her senior elite career, so who knows. Brian’s been in Oregon with Jade for the last 2 years, iirc. He runs clinics at the OSU gym and travels to gyms as a consultant.

 

[irichluck21]

Emily Gaskins (who was a grad assistant at Bama this year) gets a full time gig at NC State.

Also according to Greg Marsden, here are all the coaching vacancies + added AC positions due to new rule.

 

[irichluck21]

Also missed Alina Cartwright making the move from VC at MSU to AC at Pitt.

Casey Jo assembled quite a formidable staff of former NCAA gymnasts as her coaching team.

 

[irichluck21]

Official now, which we knew was a matter of time. Courtney McCool promoted from VC to AC

Courtney McCool Griffeth Named Gymnastics Assistant Coach

lsusports.net

 

[blake]

Payton Richards 5th year

 

[MLSWAG]

Interesting one…

Audrey Guess transferring to UAA after a couple years at LSU, where she was not on their team. Got this from @ncaa.gym.future on IG.

 

[irichluck21]

Sami Durante VC at LSU is now an AC at UNC with her mother.

Sami Durante Added To Gymnastics Coaching Staff - University of North Carolina Athletics

Former Louisiana State University standout Sami Durante has joined the University of North Carolina gymnastics staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2023-...

goheels.com

 

[makam]

Okay, that is even weirder than Jade’s dad signing up to coach college. Might not be nepo baby stuff, but it sure looks like it…

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

I mean, LOL. That is just ridiculous. I’m kind of shocked that the school allowed such blatant nepotism to happen. At least Carey was overqualified.

 

[RedBirdie]

Please, NCAA sports (sports in general) are ground zero for nepotism.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Heavy on the sports in general. Somalia decided to let the niece of the president of the athletics federation take the spot in the 100m at the Universiade. She isn’t a runner and is completely out of shape and posted the slowest run (almost 22 seconds) in the competition’s history.

 

[MaryClare]

I saw the video. Why would you even want to embarrass yourself like that?

 

[rlayt]

We’ve seen plenty of delusional people in the news. Some think they are far better at things than they are.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Strong Florence Foster Jenkins energy

 

[irichluck21]

Heavy on the sports in general. Somalia decided to let the niece of the president of the athletics federation take the spot in the 100m at the Universiade. She isn’t a runner and is completely out of shape and posted the slowest run (almost 22 seconds) in the competition’s history.

I need the video of this. How sad.

 

[Passion]

I need the video of this. How sad.

I typed “somalia university games” into google and it autocompleted “sprinter” for me lol

 

[irichluck21]

Thank you for the video @Passion

Yikes.

This is a completely different scenario to when Belgian shot putter Jolien Boumkwo ran the hurdles for injured teammates so that Belgium would not be disqualified.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Pretty sure i can run faster than that.

 

[Hatsumomo]

I can’t, but I’m not so delusional that I could take a spot in a major competition.

 

[Kittentoes]

Wow, has she even ever run before?