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Gymnastics Adds Beucler, Richardson to Coaching Staff
September 21, 2017 | Gymnastics
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By: by Matthew Daley, Athletic Communicationis Assistant
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Head coach Kerrie Turner and the Bowling Green State University gymnastics team have announced the addition of two assistant coaches for the 2017 season. Marissa Beucler is the Falcons' new assistant coach and replaces Marie Case, who accepted a position at the University of North Carolina during the summer. Alaska Richardson will join the coaching staff as a volunteer assistant.
Beucler arrives at BGSU following a season as gymnastics coach with Capital City Athletics. With Capital City, Beucler coached Level 3 through Level 10 gymnasts and completed detailed workout plans and scheduling for her gymnasts. She also served as the squad's Social Media and Marketing Manager.
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Marissa Beucler
She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, where she competed from 2012-2016 on the Wildcats' gymnastics team for head coach Tim Garrison. As a freshman in 2013, Beucler won the beam competition in her first collegiate meet (9.825), as UK upset No. 9 Arkansas. At the SEC Championships, she competed on the floor for the first time and earned a 9.725; she also posted a personal-best 9.750 on vault at that meet.
As a junior in 2015, Beucler participated in ten meets for Kentucky, including two as an all-around competitor. She posted team-best scores on the bars four times and once each on the vault and the all-around. At the SEC Championships, she earned season-best scores of 9.825 (floor) and 9.800 (vault) en route to a 39.125 all-around score.Â
Beucler competed in all 13 meets as a senior during the 2016 season. She was anchor on the uneven bars and scored a 9.875 in a victory over Missouri; she also posted a season-best 9.800 on vault during that meet. She earned three event titles on uneven bars, each with a 9.875. At the NCAA Regional in Tuscaloosa, she scored a 9.800 on bars. Her efforts helped UK to the second- and third-highest scores in team history in back-to-back weeks against Arkansas and Florida.
Beucler was a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree and was twice named Academic All-American (2015, 2016). She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism.
With the Falcons, she will be focused on coaching vault, floor and assisting with choreography.Â
"I am so pleased Marissa will be joining our staff. She is an excellent communicator and brings a bright and positive energy to our program. She is eager to build her collegiate coaching career and will reinforce the culture we have established at BGSU," said Turner. "Her experience as a collegiate gymnast at the University of Kentucky and as a leader for her program is relatable to our student-athletes. She immediately shared a great rapport with the team during her interview."
Richardson arrives at BGSU after one year as a graduate assistant at the University of Toledo. In that time, she served as an academic coordinator for the Rockets' men's and women's tennis teams. While in Toledo, she also gained two years of coaching experience as an instructor at the Sunrise Gymnastics Academy. As coach, she assisted children of various ages in learning basic gymnastics techniques while developing physical and psychological fitness.Â
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Alaska Richardson
Richardson also gained experience as a member of the West Virginia University gymnastics team from 2009-2013. As a senior in 2013, she won four floor exercise event titles and three others on the vault. She earned a career-best 9.925 and won the vault against Maryland, then posted a career-best 9.925 on the floor in a quad meet against Michigan, Towson, and New Hamsphire. She had a 9.9 or better on the floor in five of 11 meets and scored 9.825 or better on vault in every meet. Richardson qualified for the NCAA Regionals in both events, where she tied for second on floor (9.875) and tied for 12th on vault (9.825).
As a junior, Richardson competed in all 13 of West Virginia's meets in the floor exercise and vault events. She won the vault twice, once with a season-best 9.875 in a tri-meet with George Washington and Towson. On the floor, she won four times, including an outright win (9.85) at Bowling Green. Her season-high of 9.900 came against Arkansas. She qualified for the NCAA Regionals in both events and tied for eighth on vault by tying her season-best (9.875).
Richardson is a two-time EAGL All-Academic team member and has a Bachelor of Arts in Multidisciplinary Studies from WVU, as well as a Master of Education from the University of Toledo.
The BGSUÂ gymnastics team returns 16 student-athletes and adds eight freshmen for the 2018 season, which will begin on Jan. 5, 2018 with a dual meet at Michigan State.
