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University
  
University of Utah

Colors
  
Red and White

Conference
  
Pacific-12 Conference

Nickname
  
Red Rocks, Utah Utes

Founded
  
1976

Arena
  
Jon M. Huntsman Center

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Head coach
  
Megan Marsden (8th year) & Tom Farden (2nd year)

Home arena
  
Jon M. Huntsman Center (Capacity: 15,000)

Location
  
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

The Utah Utes (also known as the "Red Rocks") women's gymnastics team represents the University of Utah and competes in the Pac-12 Conference. The Utes compete in the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of the end of the 2016 season, the Red Rocks have won 10 national championships, including 9 NCAA Gymnastics championships, and been runner-up 9 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. Megan Marsden and Tom Farden are the current head coaches.

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History

The Utah Utes gymnastics team first competed in 1976. The team first appeared on television in 1978 and has appeared every year since then. The NCAA first sponsored women's gymnastics national championships in 1982. Utah is the only team to qualify for every national championship that has been held.

Roster

  • Co-Head Coach: Megan Marsden
  • Co-Head Coach: Tom Farden
  • Assistant Coach: Meredith Paulicivic

    • National records

  • Utah has won a record 10 national championships (tied with Georgia). Nine of them were NCAA Women's Gymnastics championships 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-America gymnast awards of any school with 351.
  • Utah gymnastics set the longest regular season home win streak of any NCAA sport at 23 years (1979–2002) and 170 meets.
  • Utah has led the nation in gymnastics attendance 33 times and has won seven all-women's sports attendance titles.
  • On March 6, 2015, Utah had an overflow crowd of 16,019 on hand for its win over Michigan, setting the NCAA gymnastics record for largest crowd in a single meet.
  • In the 2017 season, Utah averaged a record 15,244 fans per meet, breaking the previous NCAA gymnastics attendance record, set by Utah in 2015.

    • 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 Tom Farden were named co-head coaches.

    NCAA Champions

    As of the end of the 2016 season, 13 different Utah gymnasts have won a total of 25 individual event championships.

    References

    Utah Red Rocks Wikipedia
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