Cornell University Women's Gymnastics

Melanie Hall, who spent a quarter-century as assistant and associate head coach, became head coach of the Cornell gymnastics program in June of 2021. The five-time USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Assistant Coach of the Year (2001, '06, '07, '08, and '10), 2002 NCAA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year, and seven-time ECAC Assistant Coach of the Year, had been on the Cornell staff since 1994 under her former college coach, Paul Beckwith. Hall has been involved in all decisions surrounding the program, from recruiting and scheduling to travel and event operations. She has been instrumental in helping the team break record after record and developing 119 USA Gymnastics collegiate All-Americans and seven NCAA Regional competitors. The 2009 squad became the first-ever non-scholarship program to claim a USA Gymnastics collegiate national title. Individual records have been set on all four events and the all-around, and every team record has fallen under her tenure. The team has won seven Ivy Classic and two ECAC team titles while working on East Hill. Hall is currently the Chair of the WCGA Board of Directors and is on the USAG Nationals Coaches Committee. Hall was a former NCAA competitive gymnast at Radford University (1988-1992), a four-year letter winner and program record-holder on bars.

Mike Brackmann joined the Cornell gymnastics coaching staff in September 2021 as an assistant. In his first three seasons with the program, Big Red gymnasts have posted 16 additions to the school's all-time top 10 list and set a new record on floor (49.225) and beam (49.075). Cornell also made history in 2024 by setting a new program record team score of 195.025 against Centenary. Sydney Beers won the 2022 USAG national title in the all-around and a total of 19 All-America citations have landed with Big Red gymnasts at the meet. Brackmann joined the Big Red as an assistant after working at the club level for the past five years with Aerial Gymnastics Club in Downers Grove, Ill. He spent 2016-18 as an assistant boys' coach where he developed athletes for the collegiate level. In 2018 he made the jump from assistant to a primary event coach of Aerial's girls' team. At the helm of the girls' program, Brackmann dealt with day-to-day gym operations including scheduling and external communications. Brackmann is a 2015 graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago where he earned a bachelor's of arts in the teaching of history and was a four-year member of the Flames' men's gymnastics program. While competing for UIC, Brackmann was named a Scholastic All-American and specialized in the pommel horse, rings, and high bar.