Acrobatics & Tumbling
Alia Stark
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- alia_nolan@baylor.edu
Stark was named assistant coach at Baylor in July of 2021 after a four-year stint as an assistant for the acrobatics and tumbling program at Gannon University in Erie, Pa.
The 2022 season saw three individual national titles for the Bears and the seventh-straight NCATA National Championship. Stark also saw BU gain two yearly NCATA awards, with Emily Tobin being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year and Bayley Humphrey being named Specialist of the Year. The Bears had three named NCATA All-Americans in Tobin, Humphrey and Riley Chimwala. Baylor got it done on the mats and in the classroom, with Kamryn Kitchens named All-Academic and 26 other student-athletes named to the NCATA Academic Honor Roll. Six newcomers were named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team for Baylor, and 27 student-athletes were named to the Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Team.
In her time at Gannon, Nolan served as the team's recruiting coordinator, as well as in all facets of team training, practice and preparation and helped lead the Golden Knights to the NCATA National Championships in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, Gannon finished the season a perfect 6-0 and ranked No. 5 in the final NCATA rankings.
In addition, she coached the Golden Knights to the 2018 inversion pyramid event national championship, while assisting in getting seven groups to qualify for the national event finals, with all seven placing in the top three in the nation. She has coached 2021 NCATA All-American Nikki Pizzi, 2018 NCATA All-American Chelsea Cowan, NCATA All-Academic Team honorees Jocelyn Scott and Abigail Miller, as well as 82 NCATA Academic Honor Roll recipients and four NCATA national weekly award winners.
Gannon teams with Nolan as part of the coaching staff hold the program record in total score, three of six events, and 17 of 19 heats, and have posted six perfect scores, including three perfect 10s.
A native of Reno, Nevada, Nolan was a four-year member and three-time NCATA All-American with the acrobatics and tumbling team at Alderson Broaddus. She graduated with a degree in political science from Alderson Broaddus in 2017 and earned her master's in curriculum and instruction from Gannon in August 2021.
The 2022 season saw three individual national titles for the Bears and the seventh-straight NCATA National Championship. Stark also saw BU gain two yearly NCATA awards, with Emily Tobin being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year and Bayley Humphrey being named Specialist of the Year. The Bears had three named NCATA All-Americans in Tobin, Humphrey and Riley Chimwala. Baylor got it done on the mats and in the classroom, with Kamryn Kitchens named All-Academic and 26 other student-athletes named to the NCATA Academic Honor Roll. Six newcomers were named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team for Baylor, and 27 student-athletes were named to the Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Team.
In her time at Gannon, Nolan served as the team's recruiting coordinator, as well as in all facets of team training, practice and preparation and helped lead the Golden Knights to the NCATA National Championships in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, Gannon finished the season a perfect 6-0 and ranked No. 5 in the final NCATA rankings.
In addition, she coached the Golden Knights to the 2018 inversion pyramid event national championship, while assisting in getting seven groups to qualify for the national event finals, with all seven placing in the top three in the nation. She has coached 2021 NCATA All-American Nikki Pizzi, 2018 NCATA All-American Chelsea Cowan, NCATA All-Academic Team honorees Jocelyn Scott and Abigail Miller, as well as 82 NCATA Academic Honor Roll recipients and four NCATA national weekly award winners.
Gannon teams with Nolan as part of the coaching staff hold the program record in total score, three of six events, and 17 of 19 heats, and have posted six perfect scores, including three perfect 10s.
A native of Reno, Nevada, Nolan was a four-year member and three-time NCATA All-American with the acrobatics and tumbling team at Alderson Broaddus. She graduated with a degree in political science from Alderson Broaddus in 2017 and earned her master's in curriculum and instruction from Gannon in August 2021.
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