Baylor University Women's Acrobatics & Tumbling

A transcendent leader on the forefront of the growing sport of acrobatics and tumbling, Felecia Mulkey has won all 14 of the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association (NCATA) championships offered and boasts a career record of 140-4 over 15 seasons as a head coach of acrobatics and tumbling in the NCATA. In the 2025 season, she was in her 11th year as the head coach at Baylor and has completely changed the program since arriving in Waco in June of 2014. After winning four-straight NCATA titles at the University of Oregon, she has led the Bears to 10-straight NCATA championships with a 107-2 record in Waco and compiled a 50-meet win streak (2021-25) as she has tutored 34 NCATA-All-Americans in 11 seasons. The 2025 season put another undefeated slate under Mulkey's belt, going 12-0 and extending the undefeated meet streak to 50 to end the season.

After spending two seasons as an assistant coach at Oregon and the 2016 season as a volunteer assistant at Baylor, former Oregon All-American Kelsey Rowell is in her 10th season as an assistant coach of the Baylor acrobatics and tumbling team in 2025-26. In her nine seasons as an assistant coach, Rowell has helped the program win its 10th-straight NCATA title (eight under her tenure) in 2025. The 2025 season saw the Bears go 12-0 and extended the undefeated meet streak to 50 to end the season. Baylor had 10 meet wins by over 10 points, and three meet scores of 280 or more. BU swept the DI end of season awards with Jordan Gruendler earning her third-consecutive Specialist of the Year title, Payton Washington being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year, and Leavy McDonald taking the Freshman crown. Those three along with Emily Bott were named NCATA All-America and Gruendler also was named to the All-Academic Team. The trio of Washington, McDonald and Gruendler swept the weekly award

Shayla Hutchins serves Baylor Athletics as an Assistant Coach of the national champion Acrobatics & Tumbling program. She returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in the 2023-24 season after serving as the head A&T coach at Emmanuel College. As a Baylor student-athlete, she was a four-time NCATA Champion and two-time NCATA All-American. She was the NCATA Freshman of the Year in 2015, helping the Bears to their first NCATA Championship title. She graduated from Baylor in 2018 with her bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Forensic Science. In addition to coaching, Hutchins is a champion with Team USA Weightlifting, earning gold at the 2022 Pan American Championships and competing in multiple World Championships. She was married to Coby Hutchins in May of 2021.