Kaelyn Cowan - Acrobatics & Tumbling Coach

Kaelyn Cowan

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Kaelyn_A_Cowan@baylor.edu
Phone:
3155

Cowan, a 2017 graduate of Baylor, spent two seasons with the Bears as an assistant coach after spending two years prior as the first head acrobatics and tumbling coach at Limestone College, helping the Saints to a 6-2 record in their first season of competition in 2019.

In 2021, Cowan helped coach Baylor to its sixth-consecutive national title and for the fourth-consecutive time, a Baylor was named the NCATA Most Outstanding Athlete as Emily Tobin earned the honor, while Riley Chimwala was named the NCATA Freshman of the Year. Tobin, Chimwala and Kam Kitchens all earned All-America honors, while Maddie McNamee was named the Louise Goodrum Academic Award winner.

Cowan took over at Limestone College after spending time as an assistant acrobatics & tumbling coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, W. Va. During her short stint with the Bobcats, she helped with recruiting, fundraising, the organization of clinics, and was in charge of coaching the tumblers.

Prior to her time at West Virginia Wesleyan, the Hewitt, Texas native spent four years with Baylor University where she earned consecutive National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) All-American honors in 2016 and 2017.

She helped lead the Baylor Bears to back-to-back-to-back NCATA National Championships from 2015-17. Cowan, a Baylor University Scholar Athlete, was a four-time First-Team Academic All-Big 12 honoree, and was named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll and to the Dean's List.

Along with her acrobatics & tumbling experience, Cowan was a competitive team coach at Zero Gravity Gymnastics Academy in Waco, Texas and is currently a USA Women's Gymnastics Level 1-9 judge.

Cowan obtained her bachelor's degree in Corporate Communication from Baylor in May 2017 and is currently working towards a Masters of Communication Studies from West Virginia University.