NCAA 2026 NCAA Coaching changes

[Passion]

Was trying to figure out which WOGA Haught coached at (her years overlap with the Landis) and just realized she's Megan Dowlen.

 

[MaryClare]

Was trying to figure out which WOGA Haught coached at (her years overlap with the Landis) and just realized she's Megan Dowlen.

She was Irina Alexeeva’s main coach for most of her club career.

 

[RedBirdie]

There's a name I haven't heard in a rather long time.

 

[QuietColours]

It made me go look up her (Alexeeva)'s career. Reading she had 90 bone chips removed from her hip made me physical cringe away from the monitor.

 

[MaryClare]

My lasting memory of Aleexeva is WOGA having to buy a fax machine to communicate with the rodionenkos when she was added to the national team

 

[RichardL]

I still can't believe she was actually that useful to the Russian team at that point... I was so surprised they'd use someone for such big teams who didn't train in the country.

 

[RedBirdie]

I thought she ended up going to Round Lake for a while?

IIRC, the pickings were fairly slim in 2018.

 

[irichluck21]

Something must be up with King and Koltakov.
Koltakov was the lead coach on vault, so if Megan Haught is brought in for vault, Koltakov isn't coming back.

Sounds like BYU or Nebraska snapped them both up.

 

[RAFIKI]

Was trying to figure out which WOGA Haught coached at (her years overlap with the Landis) and just realized she's Megan Dowlen.

Random Megan Dowlen story…

In the early 00s I used to set up a gymnastics chat room (yahoo I think) to see if anyone would join. None of the chats lasted too long and most were limited to a/s/l? and ignoring those that just wanted to have cybersex with you. One day a gymnast purporting to be from WOGA joined and it turned out to be Megan Dowlen. I knew about WOGA from an IG feature (this was before I’d seen much of Patterson) but Dowlen wasn’t mentioned so I didn’t know if she was having me on or not!

 

[RichardL]

I thought she ended up going to Round Lake for a while?

IIRC, the pickings were fairly slim in 2018.

Oh yes, that sounds right! I'd forgotten... (and yes they definitely were)

 

[MaryClare]

Something must be up with King and Koltakov.
Koltakov was the lead coach on vault, so if Megan Haught is brought in for vault, Koltakov isn't coming back.

Sounds like BYU or Nebraska snapped them both up.

I wonder if it’s maybe a chain thing where they are waiting on seeing if successful for a HC job, but if not they’ll go to Auburn with Ryan?