Rhonda Faehn
| Sport(s) | Women's gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
April 28, 1971 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–88 | U.S. National Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–92 | UCLA | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1992–1994 | UCLA (Student asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | University of Maryland (Asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | University of Nebraska (Asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2015 | University of Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 347–86–6 (.797) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Southeastern Conference (2007, 2010, 2012, 2013) NCAA (2013, 2014, 2015) |
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| Second-team All-American (1992) First-team All-Pac-10 (1992) SEC Coach of the Year (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) |
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Rhonda Faehn (born April 28, 1971) is an American college gymnastics coach and former college and elite gymnast. Faehn was the head coach of the Florida Gators women's gymnastics team of the University of Florida for thirteen seasons, from 2003 to 2015. As a gymnast, Faehn competed at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and was named as an alternate for the U.S team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. Faehn also competed collegiately, earning a scholarship to UCLA, where she attended from 1990 to 1994. She is best known for leading the Florida Gators to twelve consecutive appearances in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's gymnastics tournament, and three consecutive NCAA championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Faehn left the University of Florida in 2015 to become the Senior Vice President of USA Gymnastics, the governing body of gymnastics in the United States.
After taking over the Florida program in 2003, Faehn established herself among the top tier of gymnastics coaches in the United States. She compiled a record of 347–86–6 as the head coach at the University of Florida. Her teams finished no lower than fourth in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), widely regarded as the toughest gymnastics conference in the country. In 2003 and 2004, Florida placed second in their NCAA regional. From 2005 to 2008, the Gators won four consecutive NCAA regional tournaments. During her thirteen seasons as the head coach of the Gators, Florida finished in the top ten NCAA gymnastics teams in the nation every year, never finishing lower than seventh at the NCAA championship. Faehn coached the Gators to their first-ever NCAA national championship in gymnastics in 2013, with a second NCAA title in 2014 as the Gators tied the Oklahoma Sooners women's gymnastics team in the NCAA Super Six finals, and a third NCAA title in 2015.
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