New Women's Gymnastics coach hired

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JTfromClash
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9:15a, 6/12/25
The link to the official announcement, of course, is not working.





https://gophersports.com/sports/womens-gymnastics/roster/coaches/geralen-stackeaton/3204


Looks like a solid hire to me!!!


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9:26a, 6/12/25
Here's the story link:

Geralen Stack-Eaton Named Cal Women's Gymnastics Head Coach - California Golden Bears Athletics


"Stack-Eaton had a decorated career as a gymnast for Alabama, where she led the Crimson Tide to back-to-back NCAA championships in 2011 and 2012. She collected two straight individual national titles as well winning the floor exercise championship in 2011 and a balance beam championship in 2012. The 2012 NCAA DI Gymnast of the Year earned 12 All-America selections during her four-year career, including first team honors in the all-around, vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise. Stack-Eaton was also a member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications and film."

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In reply to SFCALBear72 • 9:31a, 6/12/25
Early returns from the gymternet are excited for Stack-Eaton and indicate this is a really good hire.
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In reply to JTfromClash • 9:36a, 6/12/25
JTfromClash said:
Early returns from the gymternet are excited for Stack-Eaton and indicate this is a really good hire.
It appears that she will have connections in the Midwest and Southeast. That should help recruiting.
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11:32a, 6/12/25
Great Hire! Good Connections. Will any Ladies she was coaching want to move West with her? JT you know way better then me..who do the gophers have you'd like?
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1:03p, 6/12/25
Sounds good! Minnesota was a strong team last season. GO BEARS!
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In reply to Ccajon2 • 3:46p, 6/12/25
Good question ... not sure how the portal works for gymnastics. I know June 15th is said to be an important date for gymnastics. I"m not sure why though. I would think you might already have to be in the portal by then. I ask around if there might be some potential transfers. Ideally you want to bring another veteran who is capable of competing in a couple of events at minimum.

Oh another tidbit is she is married to Rich Stenger assistant coach also was with Minnesota. So safe to assume he will also be coming to Berkeley.
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In reply to JTfromClash • 6:31p, 6/12/25
JTfromClash said:
Good question ... not sure how the portal works for gymnastics. I know June 15th is said to be an important date for gymnastics. I"m not sure why though. I would think you might already have to be in the portal by then. I ask around if there might be some potential transfers. Ideally you want to bring another veteran who is capable of competing in a couple of events at minimum.

Oh another tidbit is she is married to Rich Stenger assistant coach also was with Minnesota. So safe to assume he will also be coming to Berkeley.


Rich was the associated head coach. I guess he can remain the assoc. HC, while wife now in charge.
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9:21p, 6/12/25
A number of Gophers transferred already. Cal missed out.

Gymnasts in transfer portal for Cal to look at:

1) Kendall Landry from Minnesota (Soph) ... did not break into the lineups while at Minnesota. Does well on vault, floor and beam
2) Paige Anastasi from UCLA (Soph) Saw some action as a vault specialist. That alone might make her the top target for Cal. You can never have enough good vaulters. Seems to the top gymnast left in the portal
3) Brooke McNamara from Bowling Green (Grad) looks like has been injured a lot. Didn't compete the last couple of years. She excelled on floor as a freshman. Also was in the vault lineup. She might be akin to Jordan Kane. Injured for most of her college career but could be a floor specialist.
4) Sierra Muns from West Virginia (Grad) ... probably the transfer with the most time in the lineups left in the portal. Also a vault specialist but also compete on floor.




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7:18p, 6/20/25


She's from Nor Cal .... Definitely worth looking into
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In reply to JTfromClash • 8:09p, 6/20/25
JTfromClash said:


She's from Nor Cal .... Definitely worth looking into


Did she have a red shirt year or medical shorten year? Wondering if Mya Lauren or Maddie Williams could qualify for a 5th year..if the could get into a graduate school.
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6:01p, 6/22/25


Free Master's?
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In reply to JTfromClash • 7:59p, 6/22/25
Disappointed that the former coach is poaching his former gymnasts but I guess if they didn't some other team woukd have anyway.
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In reply to OBear073akaSMFan • 9:12a, 6/23/25




Staff taking shape
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In reply to JTfromClash • 10:25a, 6/23/25
JTfromClash said:




Staff taking shape
Great. Seth looks to have a background in Minnesota too. I'm sure they were familiar with each other back in Minn.
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10:01p, 6/24/25
https://instagr.am/p/DLN1WdXxNZk

Sophie Stuart has flipped her commitment from Cal to Clemson.
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11:26p, 6/24/25
The former Cal co-head coaches' rape and pillage their former nationally ranked program. Scumbags! The greed in college sports makes me sick.
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8:26a, 6/25/25
2026 roster: Achampong (5 stars), Mayhew (5), Newman (5), Keaureke (4), Wiley (4), Aderinto (4), Brown(4), Scanlon (3), Silvers,(3), Taurek, Kikumo.
Melkonan (3).

Transfered Emaj(4), Cesario (4).
Poached: Snyder, Reihl, Walters, Stuart. 25-26 recruits.

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In reply to Schroeder71 • 10:17a, 6/25/25
Schroeder71 said:
The former Cal co-head coaches' rape and pillage their former nationally ranked team. Scumbags! The greed in college sports makes me sick.


Still have Pauleson (sp) the swedish Olympian as a 2026 recruit, I hope.
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In reply to Ccajon2 • 10:53a, 6/25/25
Hope Paulsson (sp) sticks. The Berkeley reputation seems to carry more weight with international students.

There is plenty of talent on the current squad. We should be very competitive next season.

Lets see how the new coaching staff does recruiting-wise. Might have to attack the 2026 portal to augment the squad afterwards.

Also things could be very interesting between Cal-Clemson ...new rivalry for Women Gymnastics!?
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In reply to Schroeder71 • 12:50p, 6/25/25
I doubt they would be scum bags if they recruited to Cal. Maybe the players want to be with the coaches that recruited them in the first place. Maybe your the that is a SB for even mentioning that. Don't worry whatever you respond I won't. Go Bears
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3:42p, 6/25/25
Yes-I'm a scumbag for being unhappy with losing our top-level coaching staff, our top five gymnasts (combination of graduation and transfers) plus four top prospects from our next two recruit classes. Am I unhappy with the way things are going? Duh. Cal's program got trashed. It's probably not over, either. I'm surprised that I held out this long without losing my cool.
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In reply to Schroeder71 • 4:50p, 6/25/25
Schroeder71 said:
Yes-I'm a scumbag for being unhappy with losing our top-level coaching staff, our top five gymnasts (combination of graduation and transfers) plus four top prospects from our next two recruit classes. Am I unhappy with the way things are going? Duh. Cal's program got trashed. It's probably not over, either. I'm surprised that I held out this long without losing my cool.

You should go to the Clemson athletic department site find Coach Crandall-Howell's email and send them a message telling him exactly what you think of him for poaching from your beloved Cal bear gymnastics teams. I love Emaj she was my favorite gymnast.
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In reply to Schroeder71 • 8:05p, 6/25/25
Rapes? Not the best word to use though I know what you meant.
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In reply to Schroeder71 • 4:18a, 6/26/25
Schroeder71 said:
Yes-I'm a scumbag for being unhappy with losing our top-level coaching staff, our top five gymnasts (combination of graduation and transfers) plus four top prospects from our next two recruit classes. Am I unhappy with the way things are going? Duh. Cal's program got trashed. It's probably not over, either. I'm surprised that I held out this long without losing my cool.

Cal's program didn't get trashed. Still have three five stars and four four stars on the roster. Likely have a couple of transfers coming in.
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1:18p, 6/26/25
Ccajon2-I don't put as much stock in those ratings because most of them only participated in one event or possibly two (Mayhew). The four All-Arounders are gone. Hopefully, the star from Britain, Achampong, can lead the way as an AA this year.
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In reply to Schroeder71 • 10:14p, 6/26/25
Schroeder71 said:
The former Cal co-head coaches' rape and pillage their former nationally ranked program. Scumbags! The greed in college sports makes me sick.
I don't believe that you or any of us are as sick about it as we'd like to believe. You, and we, are all still here posting like crazy, and pouring our hearts out for our Golden Bears. Frankly, I suspect that if the tables were turned and Cal somehow managed a coach hiring coup (sadly, it doesn't happen often), and coach(es) brought along a few superior recruits, we would be pretty friggin high on the come up. Of course there is greed in college sports and I hate that too. But I am not sure this is exactly that, greed. Yes it still suks, but really, it's not like some sort of a recruiting NDA was signed with Cal.

I think we just have to deal with it and hopefully somebody has a plan on how to do better going forward. Now that worries me...
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