Bea Whisenhunt

Biography

Bea (pronounced Bay-uh) recently completed up her 17th season at Oregon State and 18th as the program’s Director of Operations. Among Bea’s responsibilities are assisting the coaching staff with coordinating team travel, hosts and coordinates judges’ travel for home events, hosting summer camp and organizes the team’s apparel needs. In addition, she organizes special events and fundraisers and is the program’s liaison with the 10.0 Booster Club. In 2006, Bea played a major role in hosting the NCAA Championships as well as the Pac-10 Championships. She has also assisted in hosting NCAA Regional Championships in 2008, ’11 and ’13 as well as the 2013 Pac-12 Championships. In 2005, Bea served as the volunteer coach concentrating her efforts on the balance beam. Bea competed for the Beavers from 1996-98 and again in 2000 after missing the 1999 season due to injury. The native of Romania was best known for her skills on the beam. In 2000, she tied her career-high of 9.875 on the event at the NCAA West Regional Championships to help earn the Beavers a trip to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 1996, when she was a freshman. A former Romanian junior national team member and national champion on bars, Bea moved to the United States as a teenager, living with another former Beaver gymnast Heather Justus’ family while training at the Oregon Gymnastics Academy. Bea graduated from Oregon State with a degree in exercise and sport science in 2000. Formerly Bea Tistu, she is mar