Springfield College Women's Gymnastics

Najuch will enter her second season as the head women's gymnastics coach at Springfield College during the 2016-17 academic year. It was a special first season for Najuch, as she helped three student-athletes qualify for the NCGA National Championships, hosted at The College at Brockport this past March. Highlighting her first year at the helm of the Pride was a breakout season for senior Marissa DeAngelo, who was named the NCGA East Gymnast of the Year, announced at the regional meet at Ithaca College in early March. DeAngelo would go on to break a pair of school records at the NCGA National Championships, including a score of 38.275 in the all-around, and 9.725 on vault. Additionally, in her second appearance on the national stage, sophomore Bri Kerr put together a career-best performance on the uneven bars, nothcing a 9.725 to take seventh overall and earn First Team All-America honors. Most recently, Najuch was a gymnastics coach at Gleason's Gymnastics in Buffalo, N.Y., where she has worked for a combined 10 years.  Her duties have included coordinating practices for all optional competitive team workouts, attending all competitions, choreographing floor and beam routines, while motivating her athletes to improve and perform their best. Prior to returning to Gleason's, Najuch was a graduate assistant coach for SUNY Cortland from 2010-2013, where she assisted head women's gymnastics coach Gary Babjack, leading the Red Dragons to back-to-back ECAC Division III Women's Gymnastics titles in 2011 and 2012, followed by a third-place finish at the NCGA Championships in 2013. With Cortland, Najuch attended and coached all practices, while also participating in set up, take down, and the production of all home meets. She organized travel and meal accommodations for away meets, structured strength and conditioning yearly plans and was the primary choreographer of floor and beam routines for her student-athletes.  Najuch is currently a member of the National Association of Women's Gymnastics Judges (NAWGJ) and a USA Gymnastics (USAG) professional member. Earning her Bachelor's of Art degree from Cortland majoring in Studio Art, Najuch also earned her Master's of Science and Teaching degree from Cortland in Elementary Education. While earning her Bachelor's degree, Najuch was a two-time All-American gymnast for the Red Dragons, a Scholar All-American, as well as an ECAC Champion on the vault.

Diana Gallagher will begin her third season as the head women's gymnastics coach and assistant professor of physical education at Springfield College in the 2025-26 academic year. In her first two seasons with the Pride, Gallagher has helped six gymnasts qualify for the NCGA National Championships including two who made the podium and one of which was a national runner-up in the all-around competition. She has also had three CSC At-Large Academic All-District selections and a CSC Academic All-America selection. During the 2023-24 academic year, her team had the top grade point average in all of Division III gymnastics with a 3.8038 which was also the fourth-highest in all of collegiate women's gymnastics.  A graduate of both SUNY Cortland and Stony Brook University, Gallagher has held many positions in gymnastics including as Assistant Director of the USAG Development Program Girls' Team at Dunne's Gymnastics, as a USAG Level 10 Judge, as Head Coach for Flip-Flop Gymnastics in New York and most recently as a clinician and social media manager for Precision Choreography and My Gym Judge. Gallagher was a women's gymnastics student-athlete at SUNY Cortland where she graduated in 2008. During her time with the Red Dragons, Gallagher was a member of the SUNYAC All-Academic Team and placed tenth on the floor exercise at the NAIGC National Championships in 2008. Gallagher earned her Master's Degree in creative writing and literature from Stony Brook University in 2010. While at Stony Brook, she served as a writing instructor and following graduation, was an instructor and program assistant for the Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP). While at Dunne's Gymnastics, Gallagher served as a coach for levels 3-10 and as a choreographer for balance beam and floor routines for levels 6-10. She coached qualifiers for the state, regional and national championships and created floor exercise lesson plans focused on strength, technique, and progressions for foundational skills resulting in regular performance improvements. Meanwhile as a USAG Level 10 Judge, Gallagher, judged at levels 2-10 from USAIGC copper-platinum, Xcel bronze-sapphire, and Section XI NYSPHSAA competitions including New York USAIGC States (2015), the Manhattan Classic (2015 and 2016), and the Connecticut State Championships (2018). Gallagher takes over a women's gymnastics programs at Springfield College that saw the Pride finish as runner-up at the NCGA East Regional Championships for the second consecutive season in 2022-23.  On the national stage, Springfield finished fourth as a team at the NCGA Championships and had Christina Wygonik (Wading River, N.Y.) and Devon Rosier (Hudson, N.H.) earn national championship titles this spring. The duo were not only crowned at the NCGA Championships, but also earned CSC Academic All-America honors as just the third and fourth selections all-time in program history last spring.