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Marie Case

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Assistant Gymnastics Coach
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Marie Case begins her second season as Assistant Gymnastics Coach for Bowling Green State University during the 2016 season. Case joined the staff in 2016 following five seasons at Kent State University, first as an athlete and later as an assistant coach. Case serves as the Falcons’ primary vault and floor exercise coach, and she is the team’s academic and community service coordinator.

In her first season with the Falcons, Case helped her athletes achieve scores of 49.000 or greater on five occasions, four on floor exercise and once on the vault. The Falcons’ best scores of 2016 in both events were against Northern Illinois, when the team set a school record with a 196.500 overall score. That night, BGSU scored 49.225 on the floor and 49.025 on the vault.

Individually, Case coached athletes in the floor exercise event to scores of 9.900 four times, as well as 9.875 an additional five times. Lauren Feely and Alyssa Nocella notched matching 9.900 scores against NIU, and Feely’s 9.875 at the MAC Championships helped her earn the MAC championship in the all-around competition. Feely’s 9.850 on vault in the same event was tied for the second-highest score of the year in that event for BGSU; only her 9.875 at Illinois State surpassed it.

Case wrapped up a storied four-year career at KSU in 2014 before joining Brice Biggin’s staff as a volunteer assistant in 2015. Case was a three-time MAC Gymnast of the Year for the Golden Flashes, and she is KSU’s all-time points leader at 1,808.125.

In her first year as a coach, Case helped guide the Golden Flashes to a first-place finish at the MAC Championships in 2015. Competing in their own gym, Kent State scored a 196.375, ending Central Michigan’s hopes at a sixth consecutive title.

One of the most accomplished gymnasts in Mid-American Conference history, Case enjoyed an incredible amount of success throughout her time as a student-athlete. She was named MAC Freshman of the Year in 2011 and was tabbed as a second team All-MAC performer. The Golden Flashes also qualified for the NCAA National Championships that year for the first time in program history.

As a sophomore, Case was named second team All-MAC again, while also being named the conference’s gymnast of the year.

Case was also named MAC Gymnast of the Year during her junior and senior seasons. Across those seasons (2013-14), the Golden Flashes were the regular-season champions of the MAC. As a junior, Case won the all-around at the MAC Championships with a 39.250. She was also named first team All-MAC for the first time in her career.

In 2014, Case was named the MAC Senior Gymnast of the Year and again was a first team All-MAC performer. She won the all-around at the MAC Championships in back-to-back years by totaling a 39.500. Case was also the balance beam (9.900) champion that year, and a co-champion on vault (9.850). She topped off her career by qualifying for the NCAA National Championships in the all-around. Case was an All-American as a senior, and was also named the NACGC/W Central Region Co-Gymnast of the Year.

Over her four years as a student-athlete, she led the Golden Flashes to a 21-3 record in the MAC. A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Case graduated from KSU in 2014 with a degree in exercise science.

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