2012 SEC Gymnastics Championship

2012 SEC Gymnastics Championship Anthony Hall

Jenny Rowland, a former All-American and USA World Championship team member, begins her third season as an assistant coach at Auburn in 2013. She serves as the balance beam coach, as well as an assistant on floor exercise.

Rowland joined the Auburn staff in 2010 after spending the previous four years as a gymnastics judge on the national and international levels. She is a six-time USA Championship judge, served as a U.S. Olympic Trials judge in 2008 and currently serves as an International Brevet judge. Rowland is scheduled to once again serve as an Olympic Trials judge in 2012.

Under the guidance of Rowland in 2012, Bri Guy recorded the fourth-best balance beam score in program history with her 9.950 against Florida.

In her first season with the Tigers in 2011, Rowland coached junior Kylie Shields to a career-best 9.900 on beam. Shields finished the season tied for 17th nationally on beam.

Rowland spent five years from 2001-2006 as a women's assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma where she coached the 2004 Big XII Champions, three-time team NCAA qualifiers (2004-2006) and three Big XII Gymnasts of the Year.

As a gymnast, Rowland was a USA National Team member from 1985-1990 and was on the 1989 USA World Championship Team. She competed collegiately at Arizona State University, where she was an uneven bars All-American in 1993.

Rowland received her bachelor's degree in health and sports sciences from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. She is married to Garon Rowland, a two-time All-American gymnast at Oklahoma, and the couple has two daughters, Ella and Emmy.