Quinnipiac University Women's Acrobatics & Tumbling

Mary Ann Powers enters her 29th season as head coach for Quinnipiac Acrobatics & Tumbling in 2025-26. Powers has coached at several levels including Pop-Warn...

Devin Markle, Psy.D., M.Ed joined the Quinnipiac Athletic department in the fall of 2021 as the Clinical Sports Psychology Coach. She is responsible for all of the athletic programs and works to create individual, team and coaches workshops related to sports psychology. Markle comes to Quinnipiac with over seven years of experience with working with all athletes, ranging from professional to youth. She most recently was a psychological assistant for the Fulton Psychological Group where she specialized in working with 4 to 18 year olds, counseling for mental health concerns as well as performance psychology. In 2018, she started her own private practice which specialized in helping athletes and business people to reach their highest level of performance. From August 2015 to 2018, Markle served as the Co-Director of Mindset Development at the Mamba Sports Academy. She was responsible for training athletes of all ages and levels and implementing mental skills training with individuals. In addition, she helped design the NBA and NFL Pre-Draft Training Program while working with the Mamba Sports Academy. Markle earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and English at the University of Vermont in 2010. She then went on to earn her Master's in Education in Counseling and Sport Psychology from Boston University in 2013. By 2020, Markle had also earned her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from California Southern University.

Erin Trotman returns in her 12th season in 2024 as an assistant on Mary Ann Powers’ staff with the acrobatics and tumbling team after joining the staff in Au...

Acrobatics & TumblingSkip AdMancini, MelanieMancini, MelaniePowers, Mary Ann Sack, PaytonTianga, NicoletteTrotman, ErinZieba, Tiffany

The Quinnipiac Acrobatics and Tumbling program and head coach Mary Ann Powers announced the return of former student-athlete Nicolette Tianga '23 to the Bobc...

Sergio Merino was hired as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach in January 2021. Merino spent the first half of the 2020-21 season as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Sacred Heart after spending three-and-a-half seasons as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Merino joined Sacred Heart Athletics in August 2020 where he directly supervised the strength and conditioning programs for men's and women's basketball, baseball and women's volleyball. At each of his institutions, Merino developed and implemented performance testing, speed, agility, energy systems, strength training and mental performance programs. He spent three-and-a-half seasons as the head strength and condition coach at RPI from December 2016 through August 2020, overseeing the entire strength and conditioning department and responsible for the development of football, field hockey and men's golf. Merino previously was the Director of Athletic Performance at Canisius from August 2014 to December 2016 where he supervised and oversaw the athletic performance department and was an adjunct professor for Kinesiology 420. Prior to his time at Canisius, Merino also had two stops at Quinnipiac as an assistant strength & conditioning coach from 2012-14 and volunteer assistant from 2009-11. He also spent two years as a sports performance coach at Ranfone Training Systems from 2012-14, Director of Darien Fitness at Moore Center for Rehabilitation from 2011

Zieba, an All-American student-athlete as a member of the Bobcats from 2020-24, joined the Quinnipiac coaching staff in 2025 and will be entering her second ...