| Women's Gymnastics Head Coach - Jean
DeLisle
Jean DeLisle enters her first
season as the head gymnastics coach at UW-Eau Claire.
DeLisle will lead a team that returns nine letterwinners
including national champion Lynn Morris on the balance
beam and All-Americans Alison Eagles (all-around, vault)
and Kristina Reitzel (all-around).
The 2002-03 season was highlighted by several team and
individual accomplishments. At the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships the Blugolds
finished second behind eventual national champion UW-La
Crosse. The finish marked the highest team finish in
school history and the team score of 180.325 marked
the first time any Blugold gymnastics team broke the
180-point plateau. The Blugolds qualified as a team
for the 2003 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association
(NCGA) Championships and finished fifth, tying the highest
team finish ever done during the 1983-84 and 1981-82
seasons.
Several individual milestones where also established
throughout the 2002-03 campaign. Alison Eagles became
the first All-Around champion in school history as she
took overall honors in addition to being the first Blugold
to win top honors on the vault since 1982 at the 2003
WIAC Championships. Freshman Lynn Morris tied for the
national title in the beam while finishing fourth in
the bars at the 2003 NCGA Championships. Eagles finished
third in the vault and all-around while Kristina Reitzel
achieved All-American status with a 10th place finish
in the all-around.
Prior to Eau Claire DeLisle was the head gymnastics
coach at UW-River Falls from 1992-2002. During that
team DeLisle coached the Falcons to two second places
finishes at the WIAC Gymnastics Championships in 1993
and 2002. The Falcons qualified for the NCGA Championships
as a team both of those seasons. Individually DeLisle
coached five conference champions and nine All-Americans
including national champion Merilee Healy on the balance
beam in 1995.
DeLisle is a graduate of UW-River Falls where she received
her bachelor’s degree in physical education in
1987. She and husband Jack have two children, son Jacque
and daughter Paris.
Updated 9/15/03 | 
