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 forty-two NCAA event titles. Ten Huskers have gone on to represent the United States in the Olympics.^[2]

Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics
Founded	1939; 85 years ago (1939)
University	University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Athletic director	Troy Dannen
Head coach	Chuck Chmelka (15th season)
Conference	Big Ten
Location	Lincoln, Nebraska
Home arena	Bob Devaney Sports Center (Capacity: 7,907)
Nickname	Cornhuskers
Colors	Scarlet and cream^[1]
National championships
1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1994
NCAA Tournament appearances
1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference championships
Big Eight: 1964, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994 MPSF: 1997, 1999

The team has been coached by Chuck Chmelka since 2010.

Coaches

Coaching history

No.	Coach	Tenure	Overall	Accomplishments
1	Charlie E. Miller	1939–48	16–25–2 (.395)
2	B. R. Patterson	1949	3–2 (.600)
3	Jake Geier	1950–69	140–64–2 (.684)	Conference champion (1964)
4	Francis Allen	1970–2009	817–309–4 (.725)	National champion (1979–83,1988,1990,1994) Conference champion (1976,1980,1982,1983,1985,1986,1988–90,1992–94,1997,1999)
5	Chuck Chmelka	2010–	103–179–1 (.366)

Coaching staff

Name	Position	First year	Alma mater
Chuck Chmelka	Head coach	2010	Nebraska
Jim Hartung	Assistant coach	2006	Nebraska
John Robinson	Assistant coach	2011	Nebraska

Individual NCAA 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 Athlete Event NCAA 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 2021 Taylor Christopulos Vault 5th Charlie Giles Pommel horse 7th Vault 4th Evan Kriley Pommel horse 3rd Mitch Tyndall Pommel horse 4th 2022 Dillan King Parallel bars 8th Donte McKinney Vault 7th 2023 Donte McKinney Horizontal bar 2nd Taylor Christopulos All-Around 2nd Floor exercise 5th Parallel Bars 7th Zac Tiderman Vault 7th

Season-by-season results

National champion

Tournament champion

Year^[a]	Coach	Overall	Conference	NCAA
Big Eight Conference (1964–1994)
1964	Jake Geier	11–1	1st
1965		9–4–1	3rd
1966		6–9	4th
1967		9–8	4th
1968		8–7	5th
1969		2–12	6th
1970	Francis Allen	5–8	5th
1971		3–7	5th
1972		5–8	4th
1973		7–4	2nd
1974		6–4	3rd
1975		11–8	2nd	NCAA 5th
1976		12–6	1st	NCAA Prelims
1977		37–19	3rd
1978		31–14	3rd
1979		66–6	2nd	NCAA Champion
1980		37–3	1st	NCAA Champion
1981		15–2	2nd	NCAA Champion
1982		39–0	1st	NCAA Champion
1983		45–0	1st	NCAA Champion
1984		31–10	2nd	NCAA Prelims
1985		41–5	1st	NCAA Runner-up
1986		21–3	1st	NCAA Runner-up
1987		25–4–1	2nd	NCAA Runner-up
1988		28–3	1st	NCAA Champion
1989		22–4	1st	NCAA Runner-up
1990		37–2–1	1st	NCAA Champion
1991		12–16	2nd	NCAA Prelims
1992		39–4	1st	NCAA Runner-up
1993		32–1	1st	NCAA Runner-up
1994		32–3	1st	NCAA Champion
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (1995–2011)
1995	Francis Allen	26–11–1	3rd	NCAA Runner-up
1996		18–9	4th	NCAA Regional
1997		21–8	1st	NCAA Regional
1998		18–7	2nd	NCAA Regional
1999		24–6–1	T–1st	NCAA 3rd
2000		10–11	3rd
2001		7–6	3rd
2002		5–12	4th
2003		4–16	4th
2004		13–16	4th
2005		13–13	4th
2006		4–15	4th
2007		6–14	4th
2008		7–14	4th
2009		2–7	4th
2010	Chuck Chmelka	8–10	4th
2011		6–16	4th
Big Ten Conference (2012–present)
2012	Chuck Chmelka	5–19	7th
2013		5–19	7th
2014		5–22	6th
2015		2–18	7th
2016		5–17–1	6th
2017		12–17	5th	NCAA 6th
2018		14–14	6th	NCAA 5th
2019		8–6	4th	NCAA 3rd
2020		7–2	Canceled^[b]
2021		9–8	6th	NCAA 4th
2022		9–5	2nd	NCAA 4th
2023		10–6	3rd	NCAA 5th
2024		6–2	3rd	NCAA 4th

Notes

1. Meet-by-meet results not available before 1964
2. Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

References

1. Nebraska Athletics Brand Guide (PDF). July 1, 2023. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
2. "2012 Media Guide - History" (PDF). Huskers.com. Retrieved December 18, 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}