Completed Event: Women's Gymnastics versus Rutgers on April 3, 2026 , Win , 197.875, to, 196.300
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Women's Gymnastics
197.875
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196.300
University of Oklahoma Athletics
Ball, Haley Promoted to Associate Head Coach
August 10, 2019 | Women's Gymnastics
NORMAN – Headed into their 14th seasons with the Oklahoma women's gymnastics team, Lou Ball and Tom Haley have each been promoted to Associate Head Coach as announced by head coach K.J. Kindler.
Ball and Haley have been with Oklahoma since 2007 and have helped the Sooners to four national championships, including back-to-back titles in 2016 and 2017. The pair has aided OU to nine top-three finishes at the NCAA Championships, including national titles in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019. The Sooners also notched NCAA runner-up finishes in 2010, 2013 and 2018 and have finished no lower than third in the Super Six since their first appearance in 2010. Ball and Haley have also led Oklahoma to 11 Big 12 Championships and 10 straight NCAA Regional titles.
“Coach Haley and Coach Ball have been vital to the success of the Sooner program and this step in their career seems obvious,” Kindler said. “Professionally, we have been a great team. We value each other's opinions, ideas and input and have collaboratively driven this program for the past 13 seasons. I'm honored to work beside them.”
Ball, who has served as the primary coach on vault and co-coach on uneven bars, was the 2010 National Assistant Coach of the Year after leading the Sooners to their first ever NCAA Finals appearance. Ball has been named Regional Assistant Coach of the Year six times since arriving at OU.
OU has garnered 55 All-America honors on bars and vault under Ball's leadership, including 2017 Co-Bars National Champions, Nicole Lehrmann and Maggie Nichols, 2018 Co-Vault National Champion Brenna Dowell, 2018 Co-Bars National Champion Nichols and 2019 Co-Vault National Champion Nichols. Ball also coached Haley Scaman to a prolific vaulting career at Oklahoma, including top-five NCAA individual finishes in 2014 (third) and 2015 (third). Ball's efforts have also resulted in 13 Big 12 champions on bars and 11 on vault for the Sooners.
The 2019 Sooners picked up seven All-America accolades on vault and bars under Ball, led by the national championship performance from Nichols on vault. Nichols also received honors on bars, while Dowell (vault), Lehrmann (vault, bars), Thomas (bars) and Webb (bars) were recognized.
The team captured a total of 17 vault titles and 16 bar titles under Ball's leadership. The Sooners became the first team since the devaluation of the Yurchenko full to field a lineup of six 10.0 start value vaults, securing a season-best 49.625 with six Yurchenko 1.5s. Nichols and Lehrman each recorded a perfect 10 on bars, while Nichols and Dowell scored perfect 10s on vault under Ball's leadership.
Haley has served as the primary coach on floor and co-coach on bars while also earning National Assistant Coach of the Year honors in 2010. He had been named the Regional Assistant Coach of the Year six times during his OU tenure.
Haley has coached 49 All-Americans on bars and floor, including 2017 Co-Bars National Champions, Nicole Lehrmann and Maggie Nichols, 2018 Co-Floor National Champion Nichols, 2018 Co-Bars National Champion Nichols and 2019 Co-Floor National Champion Brenna Dowell. His teams have set program records on bars and floor with a 49.725 on bars and a 49.825 in 2019. Haley's efforts have also resulted in 13 Big 12 champions on bars and 14 on floor.
In 2019, Haley led the Sooners to 16 team titles on bars and 13 on floor. The squad also combined for 42 individual event titles on bars and floor. Jade Degouveia (floor), Dowell (floor), Nicole Lehrmann (bars), Maggie Nichols (bars, floor), Karrie Thomas (bars), Olivia Trautman (floor) and Anastasia Webb (bars, floor) all earned All-America honors under Haley. Lehrmann and Nichols each recorded a perfect 10 on bars during the season, while Trautman earned a perfect 10 on floor.
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