Cassandra Rowell serves the Baylor Acrobatics and Tumbling team as an Assistant Coach.
She joined the program in the fall of 2023 as a part-time assistant coach, but was elevated in August of 2024.
The 2025 season saw the Bears go 12-0 and extended the undefeated meet streak to 50 to end the season. BU swept the DI end of season awards with Jordan Gruendler earning her third-consecutive Specialist of the Year title, Payton Washington being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year, and Leavy McDonald taking the Freshman crown. Those three along with Emily Bott were named NCATA All-America and Gruendler also was named to the All-Academic Team. The trio of Washington, McDonald and Gruendler swept the weekly awards three times this season as well. The Championships, taking place in Sioux Falls, S.D., saw BU defeat Limestone, Augustana and Oregon to earn the title before winning a school-record nine individual event titles. The Bears earned 12 perfect 10s on the season, including a record five 10s in one meet, coming against Oregon on Senior Day (4/5).Â
Baylor’s ninth-straight NCATA Championship title came in the 2024 season, the first for "Coach Cassan." Rowell and company led four student-athletes to All-American status (Riley Chimwala, Jordan Gruendler, Bayley Humphrey, Payton Washington) as well as the three who swept the DI end-of-season awards (Washington - Freshman, Chimwala  - Most Outstanding, Gruendler - Specialist). Another undefeated season under her belt, the Bears used the 11-0 record to keep their 38-meet winning streak. BU was the only team to score a 280 or higher in a meet, and had nine weekly awards earned from the NCATA, one of which was a sweep. The Bears faced three new teams including Augustana, Iona, LIU and Texas Lutheran. Baylor recorded one perfect 10 score on the season, in the Open Pyramid against LIU (3/5). The Bears defeated Fairmont State (host), Oregon and Gannon en route to the title. Baylor earned seven individual event titles, one in each event - Five-Element Acro, Six-Element Acro, Seven-Element Acro, Inversion Pyramid, 450 Salto Toss, Six-Element Tumbling, Open Tumbling.
Rowell has spent the last 12 years as a gymnastics coach at The Gym-Nest in Hillsboro, Oregon. There, she helped develop the program and build competitive teams, recreational programs and other programming for the Gym. She spent the majority of her time there as the head competitive gymnastics coach. She spent her last three years as the owner operator while also coaching. She helped build the Gym-Nest into an all-inclusive, affordable program for all children aged 1-18 years old, working directly with the parents and children of the metropolitan area.
A competitive gymnast herself for 13 years, she competed at level nine in the Western National Championships for two years. She then competed at level 10 National Gymnastics Championships for five years in a row, representing both Region 2 and Region 3. During her gymnastics career, she also qualified and trained for Elite Gymnastics.
Rowell received a full athletics scholarship for gymnastics at Oregon State University, where she competed until she had to retire due to injury. She spent her remaining collegiate years as a manager for the program, assisting with various tasks assigned by the coaching staff. She graduated from OSU in 2010 with her bachelor's degree in human development of family science with a focus in early childhood education and human services.
Rowell is the sister to Baylor assistant coach Kelsey Rowell.