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The 2023 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Regional Co-Assistant Coach of the Year, Scott Wilson enters his 10th season as an assistant coach for the Ball State gymnastics program in 2026.
His 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 his 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 (Jan. 19, 2024). 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 for bars, Wilson has helped the Cardinals register 22 of the 25 highest team bars scores in program history. The best of those also came at the 2024 Tennessee Collegiate Classic when all five countable gymnasts earned at least 9.925 for a record team score of 49.775.
Highlighting what stands as the best event score in Ball State gymnastics history were the program’s first perfect 10s on bars by Zoe Middleton and Megan Teter. In addition, Hannah Ruthberg, Victoria Henry and Ashley Szymanski all earned scores of 9.925.
Szymanski would add a 9.975 three days later in a dual at Bowling Green (Jan. 22, 2024) and has one of the program’s two scores of 9.950 set at George Washington (Feb. 23, 2024). Teter earned the other 9.950 at the 2023 Tennessee Collegiate Classic (Jan. 20, 2023).
Overall, Wilson has helped Ball State’s athletes earn 23 of the 29 bars scores of 9.900-or-better in program history.
At the MAC Championships, Wilson has helped Szymanski capture the past two individual titles on bars (2024 & 2025), as well as the 2025 MAC Specialist of the Year honor.
Along with the two team appearances, Wilson has helped a Ball State bars specialist qualify for an individual spot at the NCAA Regionals in four of the last five seasons. Counting Middleton in the all-around, as well as Teter and Szymanski, three Cardinals competed on bars in the second round of the 2024 NCAA Championships.
Along with his stellar training on bars, Wilson serves as the program’s lead recruiter, helping keep the gym filled with talented gymnasts and highly successful student-athletes.
Since Wilson joined the staff for the 2017 season, Ball State has produced a 98-67-1 (.593) dual record, including double-digit wins in six of his nine seasons. Moving into MAC play, the Cardinals are 31-22 (.585) over the same span and finished second at the MAC Championships in both 2023 and 2024.
Prior to Ball State, Wilson spent eight years as an assistant gymnastics team coach at Team Attraction Gymnastics located in Apex, N.C. Under the direction of head coach Monica Ward, Wilson designed and implemented competitive curriculums for over 100 athletes ranging from compulsory to optional level of expertise. He also served as the primary liaison between NCAA programs and his athletes.
Wilson is very active in the sport. In 2015, he acted as a North Carolina USA gymnastics state congress clinician, where he developed and delivered solutions to challenges involving the transitions from lower to higher-level gymnastics. In the same year, he was an elected board member of the North Carolina USA gymnastics. Wilson aided in coordinating state and regional competitions and clinics.
Wilson earned his bachelor’s degree in American History from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. He was a student assistant for the Tar Heels as an undergrad under head coach Derek Galvin.
Wilson resides in Muncie with his husband Ragan and their dogs Kip and Finn.
