The women’s elite programme at USA Gymnastics is undergoing a leadership shakeup. The role of high-performance director for USA Gymnastics will no longer be held by a single individual; rather, it will be split into three “equal” positions that will report to the organization’s vice president of women’s gymnastics.
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USA Gymnastics Restructures Leadership in Womens Program
After the U.S. women’s gymnastics team won six medals at the Tokyo Olympics (silver in the team competition and gold in the all-around for Sunisa Lee), high-performance director Tom Forster resigned in December.
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Chief programmes officer Stefanie Korepin said that having one person in apparent leadership of the elite programme “generated either the perception or reality of one person having entire control over the programme and National Team athletes” in an email to USA Gymnastics members that was made public.
Whether it’s true or imagined, that level of dominance has no place in sports. The weight of those assumptions can be too much for one person to bear. Now, the company is trying to fill what it calls “strategic lead,” “developmental lead,” and “technical lead” roles.
When an athlete “begins their introduction and advancement to the elite programme,” it is the developmental lead’s responsibility to ensure that they are properly supported.
Training, competition, and performance will be the primary concerns of the technical lead, while the program’s “overall direction” will be set by the strategic lead.
We believe it will bring more consistency to USA Gymnastics’ High Performance programmes and establish sustained success based on a cohesive paradigm,” Korepin wrote.
Alicia Sacramone Quinn and Chellsie Memmel, the silver-medal-winning gymnastics combination of the 2008 Olympics, are reuniting.
USA Gymnastics announced that the two ladies, together with coach Dan Baker, will take over the responsibilities of the high-performance director and national team coordinator, respectively, for the top women’s programme.
With Tom Forster’s departure at the close of 2021, the job is now vacant. Memmel will be in charge of technical matters, Sacramone Quinn of strategy, and Baker, who has been serving as elite development coordinator since the fall of 2018, of development.
The restructuring was announced in an email to the U.S. women’s elite community by USA Gymnastics’ chief programme officer Stefanie Korepin in March. Korepin explained that while in the past USA Gymnastics used a model in which a single person was at the head of the programme in a role that was coach, manager, strategist, and leader, it became clear to us that such a model is not realistic or effective in the current environment.
Since the position’s establishment in late 1999 (under a different name at the time, “national team coordinator”), just one person has held it. The role has been held by Bela Karolyi (1999-2000), Martha Karolyi (2001-2016), Valeri Liukin (2017), and now Forster (2018-21).
Memmel, who was an alternate for the 2004 Olympic squad, became the first American to win the global all-around title since 1994 in 2005. She was a member of the U.S. team that competed on the uneven bars and won silver in the 2008 Olympics.
She kept at it until 2012, when she retired, but she came back to compete last summer and qualified for the U.S. championships.
Memmel has been coaching at M&M Gymnastics for nearly a decade and has been a brevet rated judge since 2013.
I’m looking forward to working with the other coaches and athletes to help take our programme to the next level, as Memmel put it. I am grateful for the chance to contribute to the development of the most favourable conditions for success.
I’m excited to be a part of creating a strategy that will assist athletes reach their full potential. In 2005, Sacramone Quinn won gold on the floor and bronze on the vault at the World Championships, making her international debut with a bang.
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Sacramone Quinn amassed a total of ten world championship medals during the course of her career. She was a member of the gold-medal winning women’s gymnastics team in Beijing in 2008, and she competed in the vault, beam, and floor exercise events.
Sacramone Quinn has remained involved in gymnastics after her retirement, working as a staff member for USA Gymnastics’ Talent Opportunity Program in 2013 and 2014 and coaching at TAG USA Gymnastics & Trampoline for the past four years.
