Brice Biggin

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Redshirt

Although he enters his 19th season as head coach of the Kent State gymnastics team, Brice Biggin’s connection with Kent State dates back 30 years when he was a member of the men’s gymnastics team.

In 2009, Kent State won its Mid-American Conference-best 11th title to surpass Central Michigan in total conference championship titles. During the season, Kent State completed its second-straight perfect regular season dual mark and finished undefeated in the friendly confines of the Memorial and Athletic Convocation Center for the second-straight season to up it’s home winning streak to 17. Biggin also received MAC Coach of the Year honors for the third-straight season and the eighth time overall.

Biggin guided the Golden Flashes to the Mid-American Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championships and a spot at the NCAA Mideast Regionals at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. in 2008. Kent State’s championship run in 2008 increased the Golden Flashes’ total of regular season titles to three and tournament championships to six under Biggin’s tutelage.

In 2007, he led the Golden Flashes to a Mid American Conference Regular Season Co-Championship and an appearance by three gymnasts in the Central Regional championship competition. Biggin coached Kent State to an 11-4 mark with a 5-1 MAC record during the regular season.

Since being named head coach in 1992, Biggin has been selected the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Coach of theYear seven times (1993, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2007 and 2008), NCAA Northeast Region Coach of the Year two times (1995 and 1996) and NCAA Central Region Coach of the Year in 2001. Biggin has led the Golden Flashes to MAC championships on six different occasions (1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2008). He also guided Kent State to three consecutive second place finishes at the NCAA Northeast Regionals (1995, 1996 and 1997-tie). During his tenure, he has coached 28 MAC Individual Champions, 28 All-MAC First Team selections, six All-MAC Second Team honorees, four NCAA regional champions and one All-American.

Prior to being named Kent State’s head coach, Biggin served as the women’s associate coach for five seasons under coaching legends Rudy and Janet Bachna. Biggin was instrumental in increasing the degree of difficulty and number of sophisticated moves in Kent State’s routines, helping the team to two MAC titles (1988 and 1989) during that time.

Biggin was Kent State’s first-ever graduate assistant coach for the women’s gymnastics program from 1985-87. He also served as an assistant coach for the Kent State men’s gymnastics team on a part-time basis from 1983-85.
A four-time letterwinner and two-year team captain on Kent State’s men’s gymnastics team from 1980-83, Biggin led the men to a Great Lakes League Championship his senior season.

A native of Howland, Ohio, Biggin graduated from Kent State with a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1983. He also is the head coach at Kathi’s Dance and Gym in Youngstown, Ohio. He married the former Jen McGrath, Oct. 22, 2004. They have three children, Austin, Addison and Alexandria.