New Gymnastics hires

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The Griffeths come to Baton Rouge after serving as assistant coaches for two seasons at the University of Utah. In that time, the Utes went 21-1 during the regular season, won the 2021 Pac-12 Championship and finished third nationally after advancing to the NCAA Championship Final.

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Utah Gymnast Mailie O'Keefe won the NCAA floor championship and was named the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year under McCool Griffeth. O'Keefe and Sydney Soloski were also named All-Americans on floor in 2021. Under Griffeth, the Utah vault lineup finished in the top-10 of the national rankings both years with a pair of All-Americans. For their work, Garrett and Courtney were named the WGCA Region 2 Assistant Coaches of the Year in 2020.

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In their first season at Arkansas, the duo helped the Razorbacks advance to the NCAA Championships for the first time in five seasons in 2018. Griffeth, who coached a vault All-American in Braie Speed. McCool Griffeth coached and choreographed Sophia Carter to regular season All-America honors on floor and Carter qualified as an individual competitor into the 2019 NCAA Championships. The Razorbacks set several school records from 2018-19 and achieved a program first with consecutive fifth-place SEC finishes.

They previously coached four seasons at TWU, where Griffeth was the 2014 Coaches Association Division II Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2017 Midwest Independent Conference Assistant Coach of the Year. He coached 16 USAG All-Americans on vault and bars, a USAG national bar champion and two USAG bar runners-up. McCool Griffeth coached two USAG national floor champions. In their last season at TWU, the Pioneers won the 2017 USAG National Championship.

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