Fobes Named Kent State Gymnastics Assistant Coach
8/6/2024 11:00:00 AM | Gymnastics
KENT, Ohio – Austyn Fobes has been hired as an assistant coach for the Kent State gymnastics program, head coach Brice Biggin announced. Fobes served as an assistant coach at Bowling Green last season.
"We are incredibly excited to welcome Austyn Fobes to our coaching staff here at Kent State," Biggin said. "Austyn brings a wealth of experience. We can't wait to see her continue to develop our beam team, and her choreography talent will enhance our floor routines."
In her lone season with the Falcons, Fobes helped Kathryn Weilbacher win the program's first Mid-American Conference floor exercise title since 2017. Bowling Green earned the ninth highest team score (195.925) in school history during a competition at LIU on Feb. 25, with Weilbacher's personal-best 9.925 score also tying for ninth in the BG record book. On balance beam, Megan Bingham tied for the fifth best score all-time with a 9.925 a month earlier, which gave her a share for the top score by a MAC competitor all season.
Fobes trained multiple Division I student-athletes during her time as a Level 6-10 team coach at Premier Gymnastics in Morganville, New Jersey from 2015-23. She focused on beam and floor routine choreography while serving as the office administrator for USAG.
She also gained collegiate coaching experience as a volunteer assistant coach at Rutgers for the 2017 season and as an undergraduate volunteer coach at New Hampshire for the 2014 season.
A four-year standout at New Hampshire from 2010-13, Fobes was a NCAA Regional participant in all four seasons as a competitor for the Wildcats and was named Team MVP in 2013.
Fobes earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from New Hampshire in 2014.
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