A WINNING TRADITION Few gymnastics programs across the country can equate the level of success the Mountaineers have enjoyed over the years. Widely regarded as one of the most respected programs in the nation, the notoriety does not come without merit. The Mountaineers have a national presence, having competed at four national championships and 33 NCAA Regional Championships. Five gymnasts have won 13 All-America honors, while 17 have individually qualified for the NCAA National Championships. One of the founding members of the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL), the Mountaineers have won six league titles in 16 years and have never gone more than four seasons without a championship, winning their last in Morgantown in 2008. WVU has won 22 individual EAGL titles since 2000, including Amy Bieski’s 2011 bars victory, and collected five EAGL Gymnast of the Year honors and seven EAGL Outstanding Senior Gymnast awards; Bieski won both in 2011. A program built on the strong foundation laid down by 37-year coach Linda Burdette-Good, the Mountaineers are one victory away from 650 program wins. Burdette-Good accounted for 644 of the program’s victories and was the only WVU coach to earn 600 career wins with a Mountaineer team. Now under the leadership of first-year coach Jason Butts, the Mountaineers look to not only continue their winning ways, but also eclipse the program’s prior success and take WVU gymnastics to the next level with the understood goal of bringing a national championship trophy to Morgantown.
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