Temple University Athletics
Umme Salim-Beasley Named Co-Northeast Regional Coach of the Year
4.1.17 | Women's Gymnastics
MORGANTOWN, W.V. – At the completion of Saturday's Morgantown Regional competition, Temple women's gymnastics head coach Umme Salim-Beasley was selected as a Co-Northeast Regional Coach of the Year. The second-year head coach received the honor alongside Michigan head coach Bev Plocki.
In just her second year at the helm for Temple women's gymnastics, Salim-Beasley has transformed the program and rewritten the record books. The 2017 team holds the top ten program scores of all time, sharing only one of those scores with a previous Temple squad. The Owls first set a new record on January 29 at West Virginia to replace the previous record originally set in 2004. Salim-Beasley and her squad went on to reset their own program record score five more times while adding the program's first ever team score of 194.0 and above. They finished the 2017 season ranking first in the ECAC with the highest RQS team average in school history.
Salim-Beasley also helped lead her team to the highest ECAC Championships total in school history with a 193.675 that topped her 2015 squad's mark of 192.525. The 2017 Championship performance also included the highest ECAC bar total in program history with a 48.825 and the second-highest beam total from a conference championship with a 48.45.
Salim-Beasley's team also boasted a new vaulting program record in 2017. The team posted a 48.875 in its second meet of the season to later top that mark with a 49.125 on March 1. Overall, this year's vault team holds the top four vault totals of all time. On bars and beam, the 2017 team added the sixth-highest all-time bar total and the third and fifth highest beam totals.
Overall, the Owls tallied 36 total individual scores of 9.8 or above, an improvement from 14 in 2016 and just nine in 2015. Those scores helped Salim-Beasley's squad to 22 individual event titles that included the program's first ever ECAC uneven bars champion in Alexa Phillip. Throughout the 2017 season, Salim-Beasley helped her girls achieve six ECAC weekly awards and five Temple Owls Under Armour Athlete of the Week and Month honors.
Outside of the Owls' scoring success, Salim-Beasley's squad was able to top the University of Pittsburgh in competition for the first time since 1995. Easily the best athletic season in Temple gymnastics history, Salim-Beasley also continued the Owls' success in the classroom, helping six Owls earn NACGC Scholastic All-America status following her first season as head coach in 2015. Recently announced, nine Temple gymnasts were selected to this year's ECAC All-Academic team.
In just her second year at the helm for Temple women's gymnastics, Salim-Beasley has transformed the program and rewritten the record books. The 2017 team holds the top ten program scores of all time, sharing only one of those scores with a previous Temple squad. The Owls first set a new record on January 29 at West Virginia to replace the previous record originally set in 2004. Salim-Beasley and her squad went on to reset their own program record score five more times while adding the program's first ever team score of 194.0 and above. They finished the 2017 season ranking first in the ECAC with the highest RQS team average in school history.
Salim-Beasley also helped lead her team to the highest ECAC Championships total in school history with a 193.675 that topped her 2015 squad's mark of 192.525. The 2017 Championship performance also included the highest ECAC bar total in program history with a 48.825 and the second-highest beam total from a conference championship with a 48.45.
Salim-Beasley's team also boasted a new vaulting program record in 2017. The team posted a 48.875 in its second meet of the season to later top that mark with a 49.125 on March 1. Overall, this year's vault team holds the top four vault totals of all time. On bars and beam, the 2017 team added the sixth-highest all-time bar total and the third and fifth highest beam totals.
Overall, the Owls tallied 36 total individual scores of 9.8 or above, an improvement from 14 in 2016 and just nine in 2015. Those scores helped Salim-Beasley's squad to 22 individual event titles that included the program's first ever ECAC uneven bars champion in Alexa Phillip. Throughout the 2017 season, Salim-Beasley helped her girls achieve six ECAC weekly awards and five Temple Owls Under Armour Athlete of the Week and Month honors.
Outside of the Owls' scoring success, Salim-Beasley's squad was able to top the University of Pittsburgh in competition for the first time since 1995. Easily the best athletic season in Temple gymnastics history, Salim-Beasley also continued the Owls' success in the classroom, helping six Owls earn NACGC Scholastic All-America status following her first season as head coach in 2015. Recently announced, nine Temple gymnasts were selected to this year's ECAC All-Academic team.
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