Cassandra Ringer - Gymnastics Coach - Ball State University Athletics

Cassandra Ringer

Title:
Assistant Coach
E-mail:
cmringer2@bsu.edu
Phone:
765-285-1439

The 2023 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Regional Co-Assistant Coach of the Year, Cassandra Ringer concluded her seventh season as an assistant coach for the Ball State gymnastics program in 2025.

Her expertise has helped guide the Cardinals to a pair of Mid-American Conference regular season titles (2023 and 2024), as well as a pair of team berths into the NCAA Regionals (2023 and 2024). They are the first two MAC regular season titles in program history and two of the program’s three team appearances at NCAA Regionals.

During her time on staff, the Cardinals have produced the 32 highest team scores in program history, highlighted by a program record mark of 198.025 at the 2024 Tennessee Collegiate Classic. The effort at the Farm Bureau Expo Center, which included 22 scores of 9.800-or-higher, is also the MAC team score record in the current seven-team era.

Ball State’s primary coach and choreographer for floor exercise, Ringer has also helped the Cardinals register seven of the 11 highest team floor scores in program history. The best of those also came at the 2024 Tennessee Collegiate Classic when all five countable gymnasts earned at least 9.900 for a mark of 49.625.

Among those scores was a 9.950 from then-senior Suki Pfister which marked the second straight season Ringer helped the first all-American in program history tie the program’s individual floor record. Overall, Ringer helped BSU’s gymnasts record two of the program’s eight all-time floor scores of 9.950, along with 18 of 27 all-time floor scores of 9.925 and 36 of 55 all-time floor scores of 9.900.

Ringer’s student-athletes have carried over their success into other apparatus as well, helping establish the top 11 all-around scores in program history. Zoe Middleton leads the way with her program record all-around effort of 39.750, which included one of her six career scores of 9.925 on floor.

In addition, both Middleton and Pfister were crowned MAC Co-Floor Champions during the 2024 season with scores of 9.900 at the league championships. They were BSU’s first individual MAC floor champions since Denasiha Christian won three straight titles from 2014-2016.

Since Ringer joined the staff for the 2019 season, Ball State has produced an 83-48-1 (.633) dual record, including double-digit wins in six of her seven season. Moving into MAC play, the Cardinals are 27-14 (.659) over the same span and finished second at the MAC Championships in both 2023 and 2024.

Ringer came to Ball State from Illinois State where she served as the graduate assistant coach and choreographer. During her time as a Redbird she instructed training sessions and developed training plans, served as the primary coach of floor exercise, choreographed floor and balance beam routines, facilitated team building activities, increased fan and alumni engagement and much more.

Prior to her time at Illinois State, Ringer was a volunteer assistant coach at West Chester University of Pennsylvania for two years. She has also spent time at Arcadia Gymnastics, Woodward Camp and the AJS Pancott Gymnastics National Training Center.

Ringer graduated cum laude in May 2015 with her bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from West Chester. While competing for the Golden Rams, she was a United States of America Gymnastics (USAG) Scholar Athlete, Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Academic Honor Roll member and an academic all-conference honoree. Ringer also has a master’s degree in public administration and is working towards a Master of Science in kinesiology and recreation – sport management.