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What made you want to coach gymnastics? I actually never planned to be a gymnastics coach! I coached to pay for my degree and fell in love with it. Were you a gymnast yourself growing up before you started coaching the sport? I was! My first competition I was 6 years old. I competed for 11 years when a motorcycle accident sideline my training. How did you help your athletes overcome mental blocks? I think the most common thing I do is take everything back one step immediately. Gymnastics is a...

1.How old were you when you started gymnastics, and what originally drew you to the sport? I started gymnastics when I was 6 years old. My mom had done gymnastics growing up, so my parents thought I’d give it a try because of the discipline and life lessons it teaches. We had tried just about every other sport and activity, but I got bored with all of them. Gymnastics was different—it challenged me every day, and I fell in love with always having something new to learn. 2.What is your...

On June 30th, 2026, the former Penn State Gymnastics head coach was announced as head coach of the first D1 program in Texas, Texas State University. Prior to being hired as the head coach of Texas State University, she had many other opportunities in the field of gymnastics coaching. Sarah was the director of operations at Missouri in 2012-13, then became an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State in 2013-2015. After she became a volunteer assistant at Michigan University in 2015-2016,...