Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics

The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. Since being established in 1939, the program has won eight national championships, finished as the national runner-up seven times, and won 42 NCAA event titles. Ten Huskers have gone on to represent the United States in the Olympics.[2] The Huskers compete in the Big Ten Conference.

Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics
Founded1939
Head coachChuck Chmelka (11th season)
ConferenceBig Ten
LocationLincoln, Nebraska
Home arenaBob Devaney Sports Center (Capacity: 7,907)
ColorsScarlet and Cream[1]
         
National championships
1979–83, 1988, 1990, 1994
Conference championships
Big Eight: 1964, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988–90, 1992–94
MPSF: 1997, 1999

The team is coached by Chuck Chmelka, who has been on staff at NU since 1986.

Coaches

Coaching history

No. Coach Tenure Overall Accomplishments
1 Charlie E. Miller1939–4816–25–2 (.395)
2 B. R. Patterson19493–2 (.600)
3 Jake Geier1950–69140–64–2 (.684)Big Eight champion (1964)
4 Francis Allen1970–2009817–309–4 (.725)National champion (1979–83,1988,1990,1994)
Big Eight champion (1976,1980,1982,1983,1985,1986,1988–90,1992–94)
MPSF champion (1997,1999)
5 Chuck Chmelka2010–70–158–1 (.308)

Coaching staff

Name Position First year Alma mater
Chuck ChmelkaHead coach2010Nebraska
Jim HartungAssistant coach2006Nebraska
John RobinsonAssistant coach2011Nebraska

NCAA Individual National Champions

  • Phil Cahoy – Parallel Bars (1980, 1981), Horizontal Bar (1980, 1981)
  • Jim Hartung – All-Around (1980, 1981), Still Rings (1980–82), Parallel Bars (1981, 1982)
  • Steve Elliott – Floor Exercise (1980, 1982), Vault (1982)
  • Scott Johnson – Floor Exercise (1983), Horizontal Bar (1983), Parallel Bars (1983)
  • Chris Riegel – Vault (1983, 1984)
  • Wes Suter – All-Around (1985), Horizontal Bar (1985), Floor Exercise (1985)
  • Tom Schlesinger – All-Around (1987), Parallel Bars (1987)
  • Kevin Davis – Parallel Bars (1987, 1988), All-Around (1988)
  • Patrick Kirksey – All-Around (1989), Parallel Bars (1990)
  • Che Bowers – Pommell Horse (1992)
  • Richard Grace – Floor Exercise (1993), Parallel Bars (1994)
  • Dennis Harrison – All-Around (1994)
  • Rick Kieffer – Horizontal Bar (1995)
  • Richard Grace – All-Around (1995), Parallel Bars (1995)
  • Marshall Nelson – Horizontal Bar (1997), Parallel Bars (1997, 1998)
  • Jason Hardabura – All-Around (1999), Floor Exercise (1999)

Olympians

  • Jim Hartung – 1980, 1984†
  • Phil Cahoy – 1980
  • Larry Gerard – 1980
  • Jim Mikus – 1984
  • Scott Johnson – 1984†, 1988
  • Wes Suter – 1988
  • Kevin Davis – 1988
  • Tom Schlesinger – 1988
  • Trent Dimas – 1992†
  • Francis Allen – 1980, 1992 (Head coach)
  • Mark Williams – 2016 (Head coach)

† Gold Medalist

All-Americans

Year Player Event Natl.
Finish
1948 Phillip Sprague Trampoline 5th
1955 Bruce Riley Horizontal Bar 5th
1959 Karl Byers Pommel Horse 5th
1964 Dennis Albers Vault 3rd
Francis Allen Parallel Bars 4th
1975 Gene Mackie All-Around 4th
Pete Studenski Still Rings 5th
Jim Unger Floor Exercise 5th
1976 Steve Dickey Pommel Horse 5th
Larry Gerard All-Around 5th
Still Rings 6th
Horizontal Bar 3rd
1977 Larry Gerard Horizontal Bar 4th
Kurt Mackie Still Rings 5th
1978 Mark Williams Horizontal Bar 6th
1979 Larry Gerard All-Around 5th
Horizontal Bar 4th
Still Rings 4th
Jim Hartung All-Around 3rd
Floor Exercise 3rd
Parallel Bars 4th
Pommel Horse 4th
Still Rings 3rd
1980 Phil Cahoy All-Around 4th
Horizontal Bar 1st
Parallel Bars 1st
Steve Elliott Floor Exercise 1st
Vault 6th
Jim Hartung All-Around 1st
Floor Exercise 6th
Parallel Bars 2nd
Pommel Horse 5th
Still Rings 1st
Scott Johnson Vault 2nd
1981 Phil Cahoy All-Around 5th
Horizontal Bar 1st
Parallel Bars 1st
Jim Hartung All-Around 1st
Floor Exercise 2nd
Horizontal Bar 2nd
Parallel Bars 1st
Pommel Horse 3rd
Still Rings 1st
Frank Hibbitts Pommel Horse 6th
Scott Johnson Horizontal Bar 6th
Still Rings 2nd
1982 John Balluff Pommel Horse 3rd
Phil Cahoy All-Around 5th
Parallel Bars 6th
Pommel Horse 5th
Steve Elliott Floor Exercise 1st
Vault 1st
Jim Hartung All-Around 2nd
Floor Exercise 3rd
Horizontal Bar 3rd
Parallel Bars 1st
Pommel Horse 6th
Still Rings 1st
Scott Johnson All-Around 6th
Floor Exercise 3rd
Jim Mikus All-Around 4th
Floor Exercise 6th
1983 Phil Cahoy All-Around 4th
Scott Johnson All-Around 2nd
Floor Exercise 1st
Horizontal Bar 1st
Parallel Bars 1st
Still Rings 2nd
Vault 4th
Jim Mikus Horizontal Bar 3rd
Chris Riegel All-Around 6th
Vault 1st
Year Player Event Natl.
Finish
1984 Jim Mikus Floor Exercise 6th
Horizontal Bar 6th
Chris Riegel All-Around 4th
Floor Exercise 3rd
Horizontal Bar 5th
Parallel Bars 3rd
Vault 1st
1985 Mike Epperson Parallel Bars 5th
Neil Palmer Horizontal Bar 3rd
Wes Suter All-Around 1st
Floor Exercise 1st
Horizontal Bar 1st
1986 Kevin Davis Parallel Bars 4th
Wes Suter All-Around 4th
Parallel Bars 6th
Tom Schlesinger Parallel Bars 4th
1987 Kevin Davis All-Around 2nd
Parallel Bars 1st
Pommel Horse 6th
Tom Schlesinger All-Around 1st
Horizontal Bar 2nd
Parallel Bars 1st
1988 Kevin Davis All-Around 1st
Parallel Bars 1st
Still Rings 4th
Patrick Kirksey Vault 6th
Tom Schlesinger All-Around 4th
Horizontal Bar 3rd
Still Rings 5th
Bob Stelter Vault 5th
Mark Warburton Parallel Bars 2nd
1989 Mike Epperson Horizontal Bar 3rd
Patrick Kirksey All-Around 1st
Horizontal Bar 5th
Parallel Bars 3rd
Pommel Horse 6th
Bob Stelter All-Around 4th
1990 Trent Dimas Floor Exercise 2nd
Horizontal Bar 2nd
Patrick Kirksey All-Around 3rd
Parallel Bars 1st
Pommel Horse 3rd
Bob Stelter All-Around 4th
Mark Warburton Parallel Bars 2nd
Still Rings 6th
1991 Dennis Harrison Vault 6th
1992 Dennis Harrison All-Around 5th
Horizontal Bar 5th
Che Bowers Horizontal Bar 6th
Pommel Horse 1st
Sumner Darling Parallel Bars 2nd
Rick Kieffer Horizontal Bar 2nd
Josh Saegert Parallel Bars 4th
1993 Che Bowers Horizontal Bar 2nd
Pommel Horse 3rd
Richard Grace Floor Exercise 1st
Dennis Harrison All-Around 3rd
Parallel Bars 6th
Rick Kieffer Still Rings 5th
1994 Che Bowers Pommel Horse 4th
Sumner Darling All-Around 5th
Richard Grace All-Around 4th
Horizontal Bar 6th
Parallel Bars 1st
Dennis Harrison All-Around 1st
Floor Exercise 2nd
Horizontal Bar 2nd
Parallel Bars 4th
Pommel Horse 6th
Vault 2nd
Rick Kieffer Still Rings 5th
Burkett Powell Parallel Bars 2nd
Year Player Event Natl.
Finish
1995 Richard Grace All-Around 1st
Parallel Bars 1st
Rick Kieffer Horizontal Bar 1st
1996 Jason Christie Horizontal Bar 6th
Parallel Bars 5th
Ted Harris Still Rings 3rd
Marshall Nelson Pommel Horse 3rd
1997 Ryan McEwen Horizontal Bar 3rd
Marshall Nelson Horizontal Bar 1st
Parallel Bars 1st
Vault 5th
1998 Jim Koziol Still Rings 4th
Derek Leiter All-Around 4th
Bill Mulholland Vault 4th
Marshall Nelson Parallel Bars 1st
Pommel Horse 2nd
1999 Blake Bukacek Horizontal Bar 2nd
Jason Hardabura All-Around 1st
Floor Exercise 1st
Horizontal Bar 4th
Jim Koziol Still Rings 6th
2000 Dusty Jakub Parallel Bars 5th
Derek Leiter All-Around 5th
Vault 3rd
Ashter Lichterman Vault 4th
2003 Steven Friedman Parallel Bars 5th
2004 Josh Rasile Still Rings 5th
2005 Paul Chumreonlert Pommel Horse 5th
Stephen Tetrault Vault 5th
2007 T.J. Schmidt Pommel Horse 5th
Stephen Tetrault All-Around 7th
Pommel Horse 6th
2010 Anthony Ingrelli Still Rings 6th
2012 Grant Perdue Floor Exercise 4th
2013 Wyatt Aycock All-Around 7th
Sam Chamberlain Parallel Bars 3rd
Grant Perdue Vault 4th
2014 Wyatt Aycock All-Around 8th
2015 Ethan Lottman Pommel Horse 5th
2016 Sam Chamberlain Parallel Bars 3rd
Austin Epperson Floor Exercise T–5th
Ethan Lottman Pommel Horse 3rd
Anton Stephenson Parallel Bars T–7th
2017 Austin Epperson Floor Exercise T–2nd
Kyle King Floor Exercise 5th
2018 Connor Adamsick Floor Exercise 4th
Griffin Kehler Floor Exercise T–5th
Anton Stephenson Vault T–2nd
Chris Stephenson Parallel Bars 8th
2019 Jake Bonnay Floor Exercise 8th
Charlie Giles Vault 8th
Khalil Jackson Horizontal Bar 7th
Josh Martin Pommel Horse 8th
Anton Stephenson All-Around 7th
Vault 3rd

Season-by-season results

National champion Conference tournament champion
Year Coach Overall Conf. NCAA
Big Eight Conference (1964–1994)
1964Jake Geier11–11st
19659–4–13rd
19666–94th
19679–84th
19688–75th
19692–126th
1970Francis Allen5–85th
19713–75th
19725–84th
19737–42nd
19746–43rd
197511–82nd5th
197612–61stPrelims
197737–193rd
197831–143rd
197966–62nd1st
198037–31st1st
198115–22nd1st
198239–01st1st
198345–01st1st
198431–102ndPrelims
198541–51st2nd
198621–31st2nd
198725–4–12nd2nd
198828–31st1st
198922–41st2nd
199037–2–11st1st
199112–162ndPrelims
199239–41st2nd
199332–11st2nd
199432–31st1st
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (1995–2011)
1995Francis Allen26–11–13rd2nd
199618–94thRegional
199721–81stRegional
199818–72ndRegional
199924–6–1T–1st3rd
200010–113rd
20017–63rd
20025–124th
20034–164th
200413–164th
200513–134th
20064–154th
20076–144th
20087–144th
20092–74th
2010Chuck Chmelka8–104th
20116–164th
Big Ten Conference (2012–present)
2012Chuck Chmelka5–197th
20135–197th
20145–226th
20152–187th
20165–17–16th
201712–175th6th
201814–146th5th
20198–64th3rd
20207–2Canceled

Meet-by-meet results not available before 1964

References

  1. The Power of Color (PDF). Nebraska Athletics Brand Guide. July 1, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  2. "2012 Media Guide - History" (PDF). Huskers.com. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
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