Courtney McCool Griffeth Season 2023
Courtney McCool Griffeth, a 2004 Olympian and NCAA Champion, enters her second season as an assistant coach for the LSU Gymnastics program under head coach Jay Clark.
McCool-Griffeth leads the floor squad, who finished eighth in the country in her first season with the Tigers in 2022.
An accomplished coach and choreographer, McCool Griffeth competed for Team USA at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, which won the silver medal. She then competed under Clark as the University of Georgia from 2007-10, helping the GymDogs win three-straight national championships.
For more than a decade, McCool Griffeth has choreographed routines around the country with stops at Georgia Elite Gymnastics, Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy, Texas Dreams Gymnastics, Texas Woman’s, Arkansas and most recently at Utah.
As an assistant coach for two seasons at the University of Utah, the Utes went 21-1 during the regular season, won the 2021 Pac-12 Championship and finished third nationally after advancing to the NCAA Championship Final.
Utah Gymnast Mailie O’Keefe won the NCAA floor championship and was named the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year under McCool Griffeth. O’Keefe and Sydney Soloski were also named All-Americans on floor in 2021. For her work, she was named the WGCA Region 2 Assistant Coach of the Year in 2020.
Prior to her time in Salt Lake City, McCool Griffeth served the volunteer coach and choreographer for two seasons at Arkansas. In the first season at Arkansas, the Razorbacks advance to the NCAA Championships for the first time in five seasons.. McCool Griffeth coached and choreographed Sophia Carter to regular season All-America honors on floor and Carter qualified as an individual competitor into the 2019 NCAA Championships. The Razorbacks set several school records from 2018-19 and achieved a program first with consecutive fifth-place SEC finishes.
At Texas Woman’s, she was named the 2014 Coaches Association Division II Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2017 Midwest Independent Conference Assistant Coach of the Year. McCool Griffeth coached two USAG national floor champions. The Pioneers won the 2017 USAG National Championship.
The Kansas City, Missouri., native earned a bachelor’s degree in child and family development in 2011 and a master’s in sports management and policy in 2012 from Georgia.
She is married to LSU gymnastics assistant coach Garrett Griffeth. They have two daughters, Rae and Blakely.