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Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics

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Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics
Founded1939; 85 years ago (1939)
UniversityUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
Athletic directorTroy Dannen
Head coachChuck Chmelka (15th season)
ConferenceBig Ten
LocationLincoln, Nebraska
Home arenaBob Devaney Sports Center (Capacity: 7,907)
NicknameCornhuskers
ColorsScarlet and cream[1]
   
National championships
1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1994
NCAA Tournament appearances
1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference championships
Big Eight: 1964, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994
MPSF: 1997, 1999

The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. Since being established in 1939, the program has won eight national championships, finished as the national runner-up seven times, and won forty-two NCAA event titles. Ten Huskers have gone on to represent the United States in the Olympics.[2]

The team has been coached by Chuck Chmelka since 2010.

Coaches

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Coaching history

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No. Coach Tenure Overall Accomplishments
1 Charlie E. Miller 1939–48 16–25–2 (.395)
2 B. R. Patterson 1949 3–2 (.600)
3 Jake Geier 1950–69 140–64–2 (.684) Conference champion (1964)
4 Francis Allen 1970–2009 817–309–4 (.725) National champion (1979–83,1988,1990,1994)
Conference champion (1976,1980,1982,1983,1985,1986,1988–90,1992–94,1997,1999)
5 Chuck Chmelka 2010– 103–179–1 (.366)

Coaching staff

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Name Position First year Alma mater
Chuck Chmelka Head coach 2010 Nebraska
Jim Hartung Assistant coach 2006 Nebraska
John Robinson Assistant coach 2011 Nebraska

Individual NCAA Champions

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  • Phil Cahoy – Parallel bars (1980, 1981), Horizontal bar (1980, 1981)
  • Jim Hartung – All-around (1980, 1981), Still rings (1980–82), Parallel bars (1981, 1982)
  • Steve Elliott – Floor exercise (1980, 1982), Vault (1982)
  • Scott Johnson – Floor exercise (1983), Horizontal bar (1983), Parallel bars (1983)
  • Chris Riegel – Vault (1983, 1984)
  • Wes Suter – All-around (1985), Horizontal bar (1985), Floor exercise (1985)
  • Tom Schlesinger – All-around (1987), Parallel bars (1987)
  • Kevin Davis – Parallel bars (1987, 1988), All-around (1988)
  • Patrick Kirksey – All-around (1989), Parallel bars (1990)
  • Che Bowers – Pommell horse (1992)
  • Richard Grace – Floor exercise (1993), Parallel bars (1994)
  • Dennis Harrison – All-around (1994)
  • Rick Kieffer – Horizontal bar (1995)
  • Richard Grace – All-around (1995), Parallel bars (1995)
  • Marshall Nelson – Horizontal bar (1997), Parallel bars (1997, 1998)
  • Jason Hardabura – All-around (1999), Floor exercise (1999)

Olympians

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  • Jim Hartung – 1980, 1984†
  • Phil Cahoy – 1980
  • Larry Gerard – 1980
  • Jim Mikus – 1984
  • Scott Johnson – 1984†, 1988
  • Wes Suter – 1988
  • Kevin Davis – 1988
  • Tom Schlesinger – 1988
  • Trent Dimas – 1992†
  • Francis Allen – 1980, 1992 (Head coach)
  • Mark Williams – 2016 (Head coach)

† Gold Medalist

All-Americans

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Year Athlete Event NCAA
finish
1948 Phillip Sprague Trampoline 5th
1955 Bruce Riley Horizontal bar 5th
1959 Karl Byers Pommel horse 5th
1964 Dennis albers Vault 3rd
Francis Allen Parallel bars 4th
1975 Gene Mackie All-around 4th
Pete Studenski Still rings 5th
Jim Unger Floor exercise 5th
1976 Steve Dickey Pommel horse 5th
Larry Gerard All-around 5th
Still rings 6th
Horizontal bar 3rd
1977 Larry Gerard Horizontal bar 4th
Kurt Mackie Still rings 5th
1978 Mark Williams Horizontal bar 6th
1979 Larry Gerard All-around 5th
Horizontal bar 4th
Still rings 4th
Jim Hartung All-around 3rd
Floor exercise 3rd
Parallel bars 4th
Pommel horse 4th
Still rings 3rd
1980 Phil Cahoy All-around 4th
Horizontal bar 1st
Parallel bars 1st
Steve Elliott Floor exercise 1st
Vault 6th
Jim Hartung All-around 1st
Floor exercise 6th
Parallel bars 2nd
Pommel horse 5th
Still rings 1st
Scott Johnson Vault 2nd
1981 Phil Cahoy All-around 5th
Horizontal bar 1st
Parallel bars 1st
Jim Hartung All-around 1st
Floor exercise 2nd
Horizontal bar 2nd
Parallel bars 1st
Pommel horse 3rd
Still rings 1st
Frank Hibbitts Pommel horse 6th
Scott Johnson Horizontal bar 6th
Still rings 2nd
1982 John Balluff Pommel horse 3rd
Phil Cahoy All-around 5th
Parallel bars 6th
Pommel horse 5th
Steve Elliott Floor exercise 1st
Vault 1st
Jim Hartung All-around 2nd
Floor exercise 3rd
Horizontal bar 3rd
Parallel bars 1st
Pommel horse 6th
Still rings 1st
Scott Johnson All-around 6th
Floor exercise 3rd
Jim Mikus All-around 4th
Floor exercise 6th
1983 Phil Cahoy All-around 4th
Scott Johnson All-around 2nd
Floor exercise 1st
Horizontal Bar 1st
Parallel bars 1st
Still rings 2nd
Vault 4th
Jim Mikus Horizontal bar 3rd
Chris Riegel All-around 6th
Vault 1st
Year Player Event Natl.
Finish
1984 Jim Mikus Floor exercise 6th
Horizontal bar 6th
Chris Riegel All-around 4th
Floor exercise 3rd
Horizontal bar 5th
Parallel bars 3rd
Vault 1st
1985 Mike Epperson Parallel bars 5th
Neil Palmer Horizontal bar 3rd
Wes Suter All-around 1st
Floor exercise 1st
Horizontal bar 1st
1986 Kevin Davis Parallel bars 4th
Wes Suter All-around 4th
Parallel bars 6th
Tom Schlesinger Parallel bars 4th
1987 Kevin Davis All-around 2nd
Parallel bars 1st
Pommel horse 6th
Tom Schlesinger All-around 1st
Horizontal bar 2nd
Parallel bars 1st
1988 Kevin Davis All-around 1st
Parallel bars 1st
Still rings 4th
Patrick Kirksey Vault 6th
Tom Schlesinger All-around 4th
Horizontal bar 3rd
Still rings 5th
Bob Stelter Vault 5th
Mark Warburton Parallel bars 2nd
1989 Mike Epperson Horizontal bar 3rd
Patrick Kirksey All-around 1st
Horizontal bar 5th
Parallel bars 3rd
Pommel horse 6th
Bob Stelter All-around 4th
1990 Trent Dimas Floor exercise 2nd
Horizontal bar 2nd
Patrick Kirksey All-around 3rd
Parallel bars 1st
Pommel horse 3rd
Bob Stelter All-around 4th
Mark Warburton Parallel bars 2nd
Still rings 6th
1991 Dennis Harrison Vault 6th
1992 Dennis Harrison All-around 5th
Horizontal bar 5th
Che Bowers Horizontal bar 6th
Pommel horse 1st
Sumner Darling Parallel bars 2nd
Rick Kieffer Horizontal bar 2nd
Josh Saegert Parallel bars 4th
1993 Che Bowers Horizontal bar 2nd
Pommel horse 3rd
Richard Grace Floor exercise 1st
Dennis Harrison All-around 3rd
Parallel bars 6th
Rick Kieffer Still rings 5th
1994 Che Bowers Pommel horse 4th
Sumner Darling All-around 5th
Richard Grace All-around 4th
Horizontal bar 6th
Parallel bars 1st
Dennis Harrison All-around 1st
Floor exercise 2nd
Horizontal bar 2nd
Parallel bars 4th
Pommel horse 6th
Vault 2nd
Rick Kieffer Still rings 5th
Burkett Powell Parallel bars 2nd
Year Player Event Natl.
Finish
1995 Richard Grace All-around 1st
Parallel bars 1st
Rick Kieffer Horizontal bar 1st
1996 Jason Christie Horizontal bar 6th
Parallel bars 5th
Ted Harris Still rings 3rd
Marshall Nelson Pommel horse 3rd
1997 Ryan McEwen Horizontal bar 3rd
Marshall Nelson Horizontal bar 1st
Parallel bars 1st
Vault 5th
1998 Jim Koziol Still rings 4th
Derek Leiter All-around 4th
Bill Mulholland Vault 4th
Marshall Nelson Parallel bars 1st
Pommel horse 2nd
1999 Blake Bukacek Horizontal bar 2nd
Jason Hardabura All-around 1st
Floor exercise 1st
Horizontal bar 4th
Jim Koziol Still rings 6th
2000 Dusty Jakub Parallel bars 5th
Derek Leiter All-around 5th
Vault 3rd
Ashter Lichterman Vault 4th
2003 Steven Friedman Parallel bars 5th
2004 Josh Rasile Still rings 5th
2005 Paul Chumreonlert Pommel horse 5th
Stephen Tetrault Vault 5th
2007 T.J. Schmidt Pommel horse 5th
Stephen Tetrault All-around 7th
Pommel horse 6th
2010 Anthony Ingrelli Still rings 6th
2012 Grant Perdue Floor exercise 4th
2013 Wyatt Aycock All-around 7th
Sam Chamberlain Parallel bars 3rd
Grant Perdue Vault 4th
2014 Wyatt Aycock All-around 8th
2015 Ethan Lottman Pommel horse 5th
2016 Sam Chamberlain Parallel bars 3rd
Austin Epperson Floor exercise T–5th
Ethan Lottman Pommel horse 3rd
Anton Stephenson Parallel bars T–7th
2017 Austin Epperson Floor exercise T–2nd
Kyle King Floor exercise 5th
2018 Connor Adamsick Floor exercise 4th
Griffin Kehler Floor exercise T–5th
Anton Stephenson Vault T–2nd
Chris Stephenson Parallel bars 8th
2019 Jake Bonnay Floor exercise 8th
Charlie Giles Vault 8th
Khalil Jackson Horizontal bar 7th
Josh Martin Pommel horse 8th
Anton Stephenson All-around 7th
Vault 3rd
2021 Taylor Christopulos Vault 5th
Charlie Giles Pommel horse 7th
Vault 4th
Evan Kriley Pommel horse 3rd
Mitch Tyndall Pommel horse 4th
2022 Dillan King Parallel bars 8th
Donte McKinney Vault 7th
2023 Donte McKinney Horizontal bar 2nd
Taylor Christopulos All-Around 2nd
Floor exercise 5th
Parallel Bars 7th
Zac Tiderman Vault 7th

Season-by-season results

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National champion Tournament champion
Year[a] Coach Overall Conference NCAA
Big Eight Conference (1964–1994)
1964 Jake Geier 11–1 1st
1965 9–4–1 3rd
1966 6–9 4th
1967 9–8 4th
1968 8–7 5th
1969 2–12 6th
1970 Francis Allen 5–8 5th
1971 3–7 5th
1972 5–8 4th
1973 7–4 2nd
1974 6–4 3rd
1975 11–8 2nd NCAA 5th
1976 12–6 1st NCAA Prelims
1977 37–19 3rd
1978 31–14 3rd
1979 66–6 2nd NCAA Champion
1980 37–3 1st NCAA Champion
1981 15–2 2nd NCAA Champion
1982 39–0 1st NCAA Champion
1983 45–0 1st NCAA Champion
1984 31–10 2nd NCAA Prelims
1985 41–5 1st NCAA Runner-up
1986 21–3 1st NCAA Runner-up
1987 25–4–1 2nd NCAA Runner-up
1988 28–3 1st NCAA Champion
1989 22–4 1st NCAA Runner-up
1990 37–2–1 1st NCAA Champion
1991 12–16 2nd NCAA Prelims
1992 39–4 1st NCAA Runner-up
1993 32–1 1st NCAA Runner-up
1994 32–3 1st NCAA Champion
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (1995–2011)
1995 Francis Allen 26–11–1 3rd NCAA Runner-up
1996 18–9 4th NCAA Regional
1997 21–8 1st NCAA Regional
1998 18–7 2nd NCAA Regional
1999 24–6–1 T–1st NCAA 3rd
2000 10–11 3rd
2001 7–6 3rd
2002 5–12 4th
2003 4–16 4th
2004 13–16 4th
2005 13–13 4th
2006 4–15 4th
2007 6–14 4th
2008 7–14 4th
2009 2–7 4th
2010 Chuck Chmelka 8–10 4th
2011 6–16 4th
Big Ten Conference (2012–present)
2012 Chuck Chmelka 5–19 7th
2013 5–19 7th
2014 5–22 6th
2015 2–18 7th
2016 5–17–1 6th
2017 12–17 5th NCAA 6th
2018 14–14 6th NCAA 5th
2019 8–6 4th NCAA 3rd
2020 7–2 Canceled[b]
2021 9–8 6th NCAA 4th
2022 9–5 2nd NCAA 4th
2023 10–6 3rd NCAA 5th
2024 6–2 3rd NCAA 4th

Notes

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  1. ^ Meet-by-meet results not available before 1964
  2. ^ Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

References

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  1. ^ The Power of Color (PDF). Retrieved June 17, 2024. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "2012 Media Guide - History" (PDF). Huskers.com. Retrieved December 18, 2012.[permanent dead link]