Utah Red Rocks
Founded	1976
University	University of Utah
Head coach	Carly Dockendorf (1st season)
Conference	Big 12
Location	Salt Lake City, Utah
Home arena	Jon M. Huntsman Center (Capacity: 15,000)
Nickname	Red Rocks,Utes
Colors	Red and white[1]
National championships
10 (1981*,1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995) (*AIAW National Championship)
Four on the Floor appearances
5 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Super Six appearances
32 (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018)
NCAA Regional championships
34
NCAA Tournament appearances
43 (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Conference championships
6 Pac-12 Conference: 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023,2024 Pac-12 Regular Season: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 1 Big 12 Conference: 2025 Big 12 Regular Season: 2025

TheUtah Utes women's gymnastics team, also known as theRed Rocks, represents theUniversity of Utah and competes at theDivision I level of theNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as members of theBig 12 Conference. Home meets are held in theJon M. Huntsman Center inSalt Lake City, Utah. As of the end of the 2024 season, the Red Rocks have won 10 national championships, including nineNCAA Gymnastics championships, and been runner-up nine times. The Red Rocks are the only team to have qualified for every NCAA Championships and have never finished lower than 10th.^[2] The team was coached from its inception byGreg Marsden until his retirement after the 2015 season.Carly Dockendorf is the current head coach, after the release ofTom Farden in 2023.

The Utah Utes gymnastics team first competed in 1976. The team first appeared ontelevision in 1978 and has appeared every year since then.^[2] TheNCAA first sponsored women's gymnastics national championships in 1982. Utah is the only team to qualify for every national championship that has been held.^[2]

The University of Utah became a member of the newly expanded Pac-12 Conference in 2011, and the Red Rocks became one of eight teams in the conference to compete in women's gymnastics. Utah has taken the Pac-12 Championships seven times since joining the conference, winning in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The Red Rocks have won or shared a portion of the Regular Season Pac-12 Championship since its inauguration - the 2020 season is the first time each of the eight Pac-12 teams competed against every other team in the conference.^[3] The Red Rocks won outright in 2020 and 2021, and shared the title in a four-way tie in both 2022 and 2023.^[4]

Utah gymnasts have won the individual all-around title at thePac-12 Championship five times:

In 2024, the University of Utah was one of ten members of the Pac-12 who announced they would bemoving to a different conference. Utah, alongside the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, moved to theBig 12 Conference.^[6] They officially started competition in the Big 12 Conference in the 2024–2025 season.

The nickname "Red Rocks" has its origins in the Utah Gymnastics 1992 media guide cover photo.^[7][8] At the time, all Utah women's sports teams used the moniker "Lady Utes". The name is a combination of "how rock solid they are, but also the red rock of southern Utah.”^[8] The 1992 team won the NCAA championship, with the name sticking.^[9]

Before the final home rotation to floor, the Red Rocks stand together in a circle in the center of the floor, put their arms around each other, and chant in unison "Who rocks the house? We say the Utes rock the house! And when the Utes rock the house we rock it all the way down!" This is done three times. During the chant, the Red Rocks will sway back and forth, then jump and strike their feet on the floor at the end of each verse. The words are not displayed in the arena but fans are welcome to learn the words and join in on the chant.

Beginning in the 2024 season, Red Rock gymnasts will approach thestudent section before the first rotation and shout "Red!" in unison. The student section responds with "Rocks!" This is done three times.

During the 2025 Utah Gymnastics season, Trevor Coyle, Mitch Brown, and Kai Cruz––student leaders of theMighty Utah Student Section, the University of Utah's official student section organization––came up with a new idea for a Utah Red Rocks student tradition. The idea was to celebrate every time a Red Rock stuck a landing by writing their name on asticky note and slapping it onto a board in front of the student section. They took an old sandwich board and wrote "STICK'D" on the blank side in large black letters, then collected pink sticky notes and a black marker to write down the names. The idea was first implemented at the concluding home meet of the 2025 season when #2 UCLA visited #4 Utah on March 15th, 2025. The Stick'd Board was met with praises from fans, Utah Red Rock Gymnasts, and the Utah Gymnastics Event Coordinator, who said that the board would become a permanent fixture in front of the student section for gymnastics meets.

Following the 2025 season the original Stick'd Board was replaced with a professionally made version. The original is displayed in the boardroom of theMighty Utah Student Section in the Alumni House at the University of Utah.

• Utah has won a record 10 national championships^[10] (tied withGeorgia). Nine of them wereNCAA Women's Gymnastics championships and one was anAIAW Women's Gymnastics championship in 1981 before the NCAA adopted women's gymnastics.
• Utah ties with Georgia for the record of the most consecutive NCAA national championships with 5 (1982–1986).^[10]
• Utah qualified for every AIAW championship between the team's creation 1976 and 1981. After gymnastics was adopted by the NCAA in 1982, Utah is the only team to have qualified for every NCAA national championship.^[10]
• Utah has the most All-American gymnast awards of any school with 398.^[2]
• Utah gymnastics set the longest regular season home win streak of anyNCAA sport at 23 years (1979–2002) and 170 meets.^[2]
• Utah has led the nation in gymnastics attendance 37 times and has won eleven all-women's sports attendance titles.^[2]
• On March 6, 2015, Utah had an overflow crowd of 16,019 on hand for its win overMichigan, setting the NCAA gymnastics record for largest crowd in a single meet.^[11]
• In the 2020 season, Utah averaged a record 15,273 fans per meet. Between 2010 and 2020, Utah averaged more than 14,500 fans a meet.^[12]

Greg Marsden was hired in 1976 to begin the gymnastics program. Marsden coached Utah for 40 straight years. He is the only collegiate gymnastics coach to amass 1,000 wins and earn Coach of the Year honors seven times.^[10] He has never had a team finish worse than tenth place overall.

In July 2009Megan Marsden was named co-head coach of the Red Rocks.^[13] Megan, in addition to being Greg's wife, is a former member of the squad and has been an assistant coach since 1985.^[14]

After the 2015 season, Greg retired and his wife Megan and assistant coachTom Farden were named co-head coaches.^[15] On 22 April 2019, Megan Marsden announced her retirement, and it was confirmed that current co-head coachTom Farden would continue as the sole head coach.^[16] Farden left his position in November 2023 after numerous people came forward with allegations of abuse.^[17]

As of the end of the 2024 season, 16 different Utah gymnasts have won a total of 32 individual event championships.

Year	Country	Name	Medal(s)
1988	United States	Missy Marlowe
2008	Canada	Nansy Damianova
	Germany	Daria Bijak
2020	Great Britain	Amelie Morgan	team
	United States	Grace McCallum	team
		MyKayla Skinner	vault

Year	Country	Name
2008	United States	Corrie Lothrop
2016	United States	MyKayla Skinner
2020	United States	Kara Eaker

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