Dana Duckworth
| Sport(s) | Women's gymnastics |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Alabama |
| Conference | SEC |
| Annual salary | $160,000 (2014–present) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1971 (age 45–46) Sterling Heights, Michigan |
| Alma mater | University of Alabama |
| Playing career | |
| 1990–1993 | Alabama |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2000–2014 | Alabama (Asst.) |
| 2014–present | Alabama |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 10-3 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
|
NCAA Team Gymnastics (1991) NCAA Balance Beam (1992, 1993) SEC Team Gymnastics (1990) SEC Balance Beam (1992, 1993) |
|
| Awards | |
| All-American (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993) | |
Dana Duckworth (born c. 1971), née Dana Dobransky, is an American college gymnastics coach and former college gymnast. She is the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics team of the University of Alabama, having succeeded her predecessor, Sarah Patterson, in July 2014. Duckworth previously served as an assistant coach under Patterson for fifteen years, after having competed for Patterson's Crimson Tide gymnastics team for four years as an undergraduate.
Dobransky (Duckworth's maiden name) received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she was a member of coach Sarah Patterson's Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition from 1989 to 1993. Despite suffering a stress fracture in her left leg as a sophomore, she recovered in time to perform as a key member of the Crimson Tide squad that won an NCAA national team championship in 1991. During her four-year college sports career, she also earned five All-American accolades, and won the individual SEC conference and NCAA national titles in the balance beam in 1992 and 1993—including a perfect score of 10.0 in the NCAA individual event in 1993. Following her second NCAA title, she was recognized as the NCAA Woman of the Year for the State of Alabama in 1993.
As an undergraduate, Dobransky earned Scholastic All-American honors three times, and CoSIDA Academic All-American accolades twice. She also received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, and a similar award from the SEC, and used the scholarships to attend graduate business school at the University of Alabama and earn her master's degree in business administration (M.B.A.) in 1998.
Duckworth has been involved with Alabama Crimson Tide gymnastics program since 1989, first as a student-athlete, then as a volunteer assistant, assistant coach and head coach. She became a full-time assistant coach under the Crimson Tide's long-time head coach, Sarah Patterson, in 2008, after having served as a volunteer assistant during the previous nine seasons. During her time as Crimson Tide assistant, the program won NCAA national team championships in 2002, 2011 and 2012, as well as SEC conference championships in 2003, 2009 and 2011.
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