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Brenna Brooks was named an assistant coach for the University of Iowa gymnastics team on July 16, 2024.
2025
In her first season at Iowa Brooks helped guide the Hawkeyes to a fifth-place finish at Big Ten Championships and the regular season after being picked to finish 10th. The GymHawks broke 197.00 for the first time since 2021 against Iowa State posting a 197.025, fourth highest score in program history. Brooks, along with assistant coaches Kyle Grable and Craig Ballard were named Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Assistant Coaches of the Year for the North Central region.
Brooks oversaw beam for the season and against Iowa State, the Hawkeyes scored a 49.425 on beam, tying the program’s second highest score in history on the event. The Hawkeyes goi into NCAAs ranked 19th nationally on beam. Iowa captured 10 event titles on beam and both Aurélie Tran and Adeline Kenlin rank 17th in the conference on the event.
Six different athletes wrote their names into the record book this season; Karina Muñoz (VT, T-9, 9.925), Aurélie Tran (UB, T-2, 9.950), Sydney Turner (UB, T-8, 9.925), Adeline Kenlin (BB, T-9, 9.925), Emily Erb (FX, T-1, 9.975), and Hanna Castillo (FX, T-6, 9.950).
Freshman Aurélie Tran earned first team all-Big Ten and all-freshman honors. Tran (bars) and senior Haley Tyson (floor) were named to the Big Ten all-championship team.
Brooks comes to Iowa from Seattle where she was an assistant coach at Washington for one season after being a five-year student-athlete. During 2024 she helped the Huskies to top-20 rankings for all but one week of the season.
As a Husky, Brooks was named to the Pac-12 Gymnastics Preseason Watch List in her fifth year. She competed on vault, bars and beam in every meet during her final season, where she earned a career-high 9.850 five times on vault. She also earned a season-high 9.850 on bars on two occasions, and a career-best 9.950 on beam at home against Stanford (Feb. 20, 2023).
Brooks is a three-time Pac-12 academic honor roll member, earning the award during the 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons.
Brooks is a native of Allen, Texas and earned her bachelor’s degree in early childhood and family studies while at Washington.