2022 NCGA Fifth Place
2019 NCGA Third Place
2018 NCGA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2017 NCGA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2016 NCGA Third Place
2015 NCGA National Runner-Up
2014 NCGA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2013 NCGA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2012 NCGA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2011 NCGA National Runner-Up
2010 NCGA Third Place
2009 NCGA Third Place
Jennifer Regan began her role as the head women's gymnastics coach at UW-Whitewater during the 2002-03 academic year, and enters her 21st season at the helm of the program in 2022-23.
Regan has helped build a Warhawk team that is consistently one of the top Division III teams in the nation, guiding UW-Whitewater to National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Division III national titles in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018. The Warhawks have also claimed five of the last 12 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference/NCGA West Regional championships (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017).
Regan's coaching highlights include:
- Eleven Individual National Champions (20 titles)
- 45 All-America Honorees (134 combined All-America honors; 27 multi-honorees)
- Six CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (seven honors)
- 59 NCGA All-America in Academics honors
- 13 WIAC Individual Champions (24 total individual titles)
- Four WIAC Scholar-Athletes
- 71 WIAC Athlete of the Week honors
- 2009, 2014 and 2017 NCGA National Coach of the Year
- 2008 and 2010 WIAC Coach of the Year
- Regan's teams and gymnasts hold the top scores in the UW-Whitewater record book in every category for both individuals and team scores
- Regan's teams hold the top 30 scores posted in UW-W gymnastics history and at least the top 10 team scores in program history in each event.
- Regan boasts a dual meet record of 82-16 with just five losses at home since 2007.
- Coach Regan has led the Warhawks to five unbeaten dual meet regular seasons in the last 10 years.
- Four qualifiers and two alternates for the NCAA Regional Championships (encompassing all divisions)
2012 National Championship
Regan's squad began its road to the national championship in 2012 with a quad win in St. Peter, Minn. The Warhawks topped Hamline, UW-Stout and Gustavus Adolphus and set the precedent for the rest of the season. UW-Whitewater won every meet it competed in up until the NCGA West Regional, where it placed second. The regional runner-up earned the Warhawks entry into the NCGA National Championship, hosted by The College at Brockport. UW-Whitewater posted a score of 188.05 in the team competition Friday, tying the host school for a share of the national title, the first in UW-Whitewater gymnastics history. Six Warhawks combined for 11 All-America honors in the meet.
2013 National Championship
In 2013, the Warhawks went undefeated in dual meets (4-0) and won five out of seven meets overall. UW-Whitewater continued the momentum into the NCGA West Regional, where it placed first out of eight teams and earned an automatic bid to the national championships. At nationals, the Warhawks posted a score of 189.75, edging UW-LaCrosse for their second straight national title. Seven Warhawks combined for 12 All-America honors in the meet.
2014 National Championship
Regan's 2014 squad overcame adversity to capture its third consecutive national title. After finishing third of three teams in the first meet of the season, the Warhawks regrouped and set their cruise control at a winning pace. UW-Whitewater finished first in back-to-back, three-team meets, won a dual, finished second in a Division I triangular, topped UW-La Crosse in the annual Harley Davidson Meet and wrapped up the regular season with a dual meet win over UW-Oshkosh, all on the road. In their first home meet of the season, the WIAC Championship and NCGA West Regional, the Warhawks finished second to punch their ticket to Ithaca, N.Y., for the national championship meet. Freshman Katie Fiorilli became the program's first individual national champion in the all-around to lead the Warhawks to their third national title in record-breaking fashion. UW-Whitewater totaled 193.025, a program record, to hoist the trophy for the third year in a row. Just a day after the team championship, the Warhawks returned to the gym with 14 individual qualifiers and put the finishing touches on the national championship with three more individual titles. Allyse Dieringer became the first Warhawk to win two national titles in the same meet with a 9.8 on the uneven bars and a 9.9 on the balance beam, both school records. Freshman Courtney Pickett grabbed the vault title with a total of 9.775, the second Warhawk to win an individual title in the event in program history. In all, the Warhawks won the team championship, the all-around title, the vault title, the uneven bars title and the balance beam title. Regan was named NCGA Coach of the Year, and UW-Whitewater registered 14 All-Americans. Freshman Katie Fiorilli garnered NACGC/W West Region Gymnast of the Year honors in 2014.
2017 National Championship
Despite a rash of injuries to key contributors during the season, the 2017 Warhawks peaked at the right time of the season to claim both the WIAC/NCGA West Regional title and NCGA national championship for the first time since 2013. UW-Whitewater scored above a 190 at each of its last six meets, including a 191.850 to run away with the conference championship, besting runner-up UW-La Crosse by more than two full points. The performance, which included two individual titles from sophomore Lisa O’Donnell and one from senior Courtney Pickett, set the stage for the NCGA Championships, which took place two weeks later at UW-Stout. The Warhawks posted another impressive showing at the national event, winning the meet by nearly three points with a total of 191.000. O’Donnell claimed the all-around national championship to lead the team to its fourth title in the last six years. UW-Whitewater added 13 more All-America honors at the NCGA Individual Event Finals the next day, including a second national championship for O’Donnell on vault. Senior Katie Fiorilli capped her standout career with two more All-America honors to bring her career total to 12, tied for the most in program history. She was named NCGA Senior Athlete of the Year and was joined on the national award podium by head coach Jennifer Regan, who was selected NCGA National Coach of the Year for the third time. Assistant coach Ryan Bendixen was tabbed NACGC/W West Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the fifth time in his career, and O’Donnell garnered NACGC/W West Region Gymnast of the Year accolades.
2018 National Championship
With a "24-for-24" performance that added up to a program record team score of 193.700 - the highest in National Collegiate Gymnastics Association history - the Warhawks collected their second straight national championship to bring their total to five in the last seven seasons. Junior Lisa O'Donnell highlighted the performance, scoring a rare 9.900 on the parallel uneven bars, another NCGA record, on her way to a second straight all-around title. No individual scored lower than a 9.400 in any event at the meet, where UW-Whitewater tied a school record on the parallel uneven bars (48.675) and established a new program best on the balance beam (48.450). The Warhawks combined for seven All-America accolades for the weekend, including O'Donnell in the all-around and on bars and junior Franchesca Hutton on beam and floor.
Prior to the three-peat in 2012, 2013 and 2014, Regan led the Warhawk gymnasts to an NCGA runner-up finish in 2011 and back-to-back third place finishes in 2009 and 2010. Regan also led the team to back-to-back WIAC titles in 2010 and 2011, snapping UW-La Crosse's 13-year stronghold in the league.
Regan earned her bachelor's in biology from Springfield College in 1997, and her master's in education, also from Springfield, in 1999. She is also an instructor in the department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation and Coaching as well as mentoring and supervising student teachers. Beyond her teaching and coaching duties, Regan serves as the Chair for the NCGA.
Regan is married to her husband Corey and the couple has two children - Brayden (born July 2010) and Austin (born December 2013).
(updated July 6, 2022)
