Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus Women's Gymnastics

CAREER AT A GLANCE Sarah Brown begins her ninth year as the head coach of the Penn State women’s gymnastics team in 2026. Brown was named the eighth head coach of the Penn State women’s gymnastics program on May 4, 2017. A two-time Big 12 Conference Gymnast of the Year during her competition days, Brown came to Happy Valley after serving as the head coach at Eastern Michigan. During the summer of 2024, Brown completed a trip to Minnesota to serve as an auxiliary judge at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials and present at the 2024 USA Gymnastics National Congress. Both experiences were firsts for Brown as she continues to use her platform to be an advocate for the sport of gymnastics. 2026 SEASON Penn State had a successful 2026 campaign that culminated in a berth into NCAA Regionals for the fourth consecutive season with the team traveling to Tempe, Ariz. The Nittany Lions’ team score of 196.200 was the program’s fifth best score in NCAA Regional competition. The Blue and White extended the team’s streak of scoring 196.000 or more to 17 straight meets, dating back to the meet against Clemson and George Washington in 2025. Penn State tallied the third and fourth highest team marks in program history against Maryland and during the Big Four Meet, respectively. The Nittany Lions notched the third-best bars and beam score in program annals, the sixth-best score on floor and the third-highest beam finish in team history in NCAA Regionals. Under Brown and her staff, Penn State had f

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Lynnzee Brown begins her fourth season on staff at Penn State in 2026-27. Brown made the move to Happy Valley in July of 2023 for her very first full-time coaching role following an award-winning collegiate career at Denver. Beginning in 2026 season, Brown will be responsible for coaching floor routine for the Nittany Lions. In her first two seasons, Brown has been a part of two NCAA Regionals staffs, and along with her fellow Penn State assistant coaches, earned North East Region Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year recognition from the WCGA for their work with the Nittany Lions in 2024. While on staff at Penn State, Brown continued to train and compete internationally and qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in women’s artistic gymnastics. She become the first Haitian gymnast ever to compete at the Olympics. AT PENN STATE During her first year coaching the floor routine, Penn State had a dramatic jump in floor NQS from 2025 to 2026 The Nittany Lions improved from the 47th best floor unit in the country by NQS to 26th by the end of the 2026 campaign and added an astounding .103 to the team’s total floor NQS. Penn State was ranked last in the Big Ten by team NQS and average NQS on floor in 2025, but under Brown’s tutelage, the Blue and White vaulted to seventh in both categories. Brown coached Alyssa Kramer to a career-high and near-perfect 9.975 on her floor routine against Maryland and improved her average floor NQS by .158 compared to last year. During t

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Ralph Rosso enters his sixth year on staff at Penn State in 2027 after joining the Nittany Lions in August 2021 following four seasons at Washington, his most recent stop. He was promoted to the role of associate head coach before Penn State began its 2025 campaign. Russo has 18 years of coaching at the collegiate level, and handles coaching the vault and uneven bars for the Nittany Lions. AT PENN STATE In 2026, under Rosso’s guidance, the Penn State bars unit had one of its best years in program history. The Nittany Lions recorded a bars NQS of 49.243 and only tallied a bars score under 49.100 twice during the 2026 season. Penn State registered three scores at or above 49.375 throughout the year including the third, fifth and sixth highest scores in program history. Rosso helped Penn State gymnasts turn in 14 total scores at or above 9.900 including a pair of 9.950s from Dani Latronica and Ava Piedrahita. On the vault apparatus that Rosso coaches, he guided Piedrahita, Ava Cash and Jessica Johanson to a NQS inside the top-20 in the North East Region. During the 2025 campaign, Penn State earned a berth into NCAA Regionals and hosted the Regional in Rec Hall. 2024 was an outstanding year for Rosso’s vault and bars event groups. Four Nittany Lions on vault and three on bars tallied 9.9+ season-best marks. As the season progressed, Rosso’s groups continued to improve, with the bars group setting the No. 4 bars total in school history during the NCAA Regional Fi