Gymnastics
- Title:
- Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator
- Hometown:
- Ninth Season
- Year at Mizzou:
- Tuscon, Ariz.
- Alma Mater:
- Oregon State, 2011
- Email:
- carneyjp@missouri.edu
John Carney enters his eighth season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with the Mizzou Gymnastics Program. He is also the Tigers’ primary uneven bars coach.
The 2020 Tigers climbed up the national rankings, reaching 14th in March before the season was abrubtly cut short one meet prior to the regular season finale. Mizzou posted two scores, identical 196.850s against Alabama and LSU, that rank among the top 10 team scores in program history. He also coached freshman Helen Hu to NACGC/W All-America season team honors on bars, as she concluded the year ranked tied for 12th nationally on the event, and SEC Event Specialist of the Year accolades.
Carney’s bars squad tied the program’s program record with a 49.400 on the event at the Mardi Gras Invitational in February, as freshman Helen Hu and Sienna Schreiber both went 9.95, which also tied the individual team record.
Missouri concluded the 2019 season ranked 17th in the national rankings, the team’s highest since 2010. The squad also defeated five top 25 teams during the season, including a win over No. 10 Kentucky, and a tie against No. 7 Michigan. At the 2019 NCAA Athens Regional, Missouri tallied both the highest regional score (196.625) and the top regional beam total (49.200) in program history.
In 2018, Carney helped the Tigers knock off three top 10 teams during the regular season. On March 2, Missouri defeated No. 5 Florida, 196-925-196.925, for the first victory over the Gators in program history. Mizzou also defeated Arkansas twice this year while the Razorbacks were ranked in the top 10.
Carney helped Mizzou make enormous strides in 2015, as the team was the most improved team in the nation. The 2015 Tigers also qualified for their first NCAA Regional since 2012, where they scored a 196.100, the second-best Regional score in program history.
In five seasons at Oregon State, Carney coached a pair of NCAA Regional bars champions and two Pac-10 Conference cars champions. In each of his years with the Beavers, his bar squads finished among the nation’s best, never falling out of the top 10. Carney was named the 2013 National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches West Region Assistant Coach of the Year. In addition, Carney coached three gymnasts to All-American honors on the uneven bars, and his uneven bars competitors earned a combined 10 all-conference nods during his time at Oregon State.
Carney’s skills have reached the national level as he has worked with USA Gymnastics for several seasons as a Junior Olympic National Team Training Camp staff member and he was selected as a presenter at the 2012 Coaches Convention.
Carney is also familiar with club-level training as he spent seven years as the Co-Head Gymnastics Coach at Gymnastics East in Bellevue, Wash. There, Carney guided his gymnasts to eight Junior Olympic National team titles, five Junior Olympic National Champion individual titles and multiple State and Regional Championship titles. He is a five-time USA Gymnastics Washington Coach of the Year award winner, and a three-time USA Gymnastics Regional 2 Coach of the Year award winner.
While at Gym East, Carney also worked on the production of educational videos for staff training. He designed and implemented training plans and led the staff in technique and spotting skills for developmental athletes.
As a gymnast, Carney competed at the club level before ending his career after one season at Cal State Fullerton.
Carney, a native of Tucson, Ariz., graduated from Oregon State in 2011 with a degree in new media communications.
He and his wife, Jackie, have one son, JP.
