MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia College gymnastics coach Jason Butts has introduced the hiring of Kaylyn Millick as an assistant coach on the Mountaineer gymnastics employees.
Millick returns to Morgantown after earlier stints as WVU’s assistant coach from 2015-17 and 2019-20. Most lately, Millick labored as a journey nurse from 2020-25 and in addition served as the colour commentator for West Virginia’s dwelling meet broadcasts on ESPN+.
Moreover, Millick additionally was a three-year letterwinner for WVU from 2011-13 and was part of the 2012 East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) Championship workforce.
“We’re so excited to welcome Kaylyn again to Morgantown and to our Mountaineer household,” Butts stated. “She has been part of among the most profitable years of our WVU gymnastics program, each as a student-athlete and as a coach, so she’s going to usher in a whole lot of expertise to assist our workforce attain new heights this 12 months and within the years to come back.”
“If you happen to actually know me, you know the way a lot I like gymnastics and West Virginia College,” Millick stated. “Typically you will have to take the lengthy street to get to the place you really belong, however once you get there, it is too candy. I’m past grateful to Jason, Travis, Jess and Abbie for welcoming me again to the workforce. I’m actually trying ahead to seeing how far we are able to push WVU gymnastics to new heights this season and past.”
In her most up-to-date stint with the Mountaineers from 2019-20, Millick helped information WVU to 4 top-50 scores, together with a season-high 196.425 in 2020. In a season reduce quick by the COVID-19 pandemic, West Virginia received six of its final eight competitions and completed the 12 months ranked No. 24 nationally on ground. Individually, 12 of the 16 Mountaineers who noticed aggressive time reached the rostrum. Senior Chloe Cluchey posted a private greatest on ground, scoring a profitable 9.95 and marking the workforce’s highest particular person rating of the season.
In 2019, Millick helped WVU qualify for the regional championships for the fortieth time in program historical past, the thirty sixth time in NCAA competitors. The workforce positioned fourth within the second of two second-round quad meets on the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional Championships with a 195.425 rating.
WVU was nationally ranked twice within the Highway to Nationals Rankings. The vault and ground lineups had been nationally ranked every week, with the ground lineup spending seven weeks within the high 10 and peaking at No. 5. At season’s finish, seniors Kirah Koshinski and Jaquie Tun owned a mixed three nationwide rankings. WVU completed the season with a 19-9 total report (0-4 Massive 12), the workforce’s high win mark since incomes 21 victories in 2012.
Moreover, Koshinski was named to the NACGC/W Common Season All-America Vault First Workforce, her fourth profession All-America honor and first first-team recognition. She turned the primary gymnast in program historical past to earn no less than one honor in 4 consecutive seasons. Koshinski additionally was named to the All-Massive 12 Vault Workforce for the third time in her profession.
Millick helped coach WVU to a third-place end on the 2017 NCAA Morgantown Regional Championships, her third season with the workforce. The Mountaineers completed the season ranked No. 20 within the Highway to Nationals Rankings.
Additionally in 2017, a pair of Mountaineers claimed All-America honors. Junior Zaakira Muhammad superior to the NCAA Nationwide Championships within the all-around and completed eighth on ground, incomes All-America Second Workforce accolades. Muhammad was the primary WVU gymnast to earn All-America honors on the NCAA Championships since 2007. Moreover, Koshinski claimed her second consecutive NACGC/W Common Season All-America Second Workforce Vault honor and in addition was named to the All-Massive 12 Gymnastics Vault Workforce for the second 12 months in a row.
Millick was instrumental in this system’s progress in 2016. She helped information the squad again into the nationwide rankings, and the Mountaineers spent six of the final 9 weeks of the season ranked, the workforce’s first nationwide rating since March 18, 2013. The squad additionally earned scores of 195.0 or higher in 11 straight contests.
The workforce’s ground lineup was constant and robust all through the season and tallied scores of 49.0+ 9 occasions, together with a season-high 49.575, which was the third-highest mark in program historical past on the time.
Millick additionally helped coach Koshinski to NACGC/W All-America Second Workforce accolades on vault. She additionally claimed the Massive 12 Newcomer of the Yr honor, in addition to All-Massive 12 Gymnastics Vault Workforce and All-Massive 12 Championship Workforce honors.
In her first season as an assistant with the Mountaineers, Millick helped information WVU to a fifth-place end on the 2015 NCAA Morgantown Regional Championships. The squad posted a 195.65 mark, the second-best program rating at a regional championship. Moreover, WVU earned a program regional-record rating of 49.225 on beam.
WVU additionally earned a program-best, second place end on the 2015 Massive 12 Gymnastics Championship, scoring 195.025. Dayah Haley earned her second straight All-Massive 12 Championship Workforce honor with a second-place end within the all-around. WVU earned 11 scores of 9.9 or higher, six on ground, with Haley tallying a season-best 9.95.
As a gymnast at WVU from 2011-13, Millick tallied 1,290.3 factors in three years as a Mountaineer and noticed time in 38 meets. She ended her profession ranked ninth in this system report guide with 12 profession scores of 39.0 or higher. She additionally ranked twentieth all-time with eight profession scores of 9.9 or higher, six of which got here on ground, the Tenth-best complete in program historical past on the time.
Millick earned her bachelor’s diploma in train physiology at WVU in Might 2014. She obtained a bachelor’s of science in nursing from Carlow College in December 2018.
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