Garrett Griffeth Season 2025
2024 Region One Assistant Coach of the Year
In 2025, Garrett Griffeth will enter his fourth season as assistant coach for the LSU Gymnastics program under head coach Jay Clark.
This past season, the Tigers finished the regular season ranked No. 2 in the country on vault with their NQS of 49.510 and placed in the top five for all 12 weeks of competition in 2024. Their final ranking and NQS was the highest achieved under Griffeth’s leadership thus far.
The Tigers season high 49.675 performance on the event came in their meet at the Podium Challenge on March 8 that was highlighted by a perfect score from Bryant. The score was the second highest vault score in program history.
The squads performance at the Podium Challenge earned them to the highest score by any vault team in the nation in 2024, only recorded by one other team on the year.
The LSU vault squad also posted the program’s third highest score at a regional with their 49.550 performance in the Fayetteville Regional.
Griffeth earned Region One Assistant Coach of the Year honors for his efforts in 2024. The award was his first while at LSU, but the Griffeth duo owns multiple coaching awards throughout their career, including 2014 Coaches Association Division II Assistant Coach of the Year, 2017 Midwest Independent Conference Assistant Coach of the Year and 2020 Region Two Assistant Coaches of the Year.
In his first season at LSU, Griffeth lead the vault squad to a top-five finish nationally, finishing the 2022 season ranked third in the country. In 2023, Griffeth led the vault squad to a top-five finish on the event for the second year in a row. The squad finished ranked No. 3 in the nation on the event with an NQS of 49.500. Griffeth’s vault squad also produced four perfect scores in 2023. Haleigh Bryant had three of the Tigers’ perfect 10s vs. Alabama, Missouri and West Virginia, while Aleah Finnegan notched a perfect 10 of her own vs. Auburn.
Griffeth comes from the University of Utah where he served as an assistant coach for two seasons. In that time, 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.
Under Griffeth, the Utah vault lineup finished in the top-10 of the national rankings both years with a pair of All-Americans. He was a part of the staff that was named WCGA Region 2 Assistant Coaches of the Year in 2020.
Prior to his time in Salt Lake City, Griffeth served as the associate head coach for two seasons at Arkansas. He spent four seasons at Texas Woman’s University from 2014-17 and prior to that coached at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy in 2013.
In his first season at Arkansas, he helped the Razorbacks advance to the NCAA Championships for the first time in five seasons in 2018. Griffeth coached Braid Speed to All-America honors on vault. The Razorbacks set several school records from 2018-19 and achieved a program first with consecutive fifth-place SEC finishes.
During his four seasons at TWU, Griffeth was the 2014 Coaches Association Division II Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2017 Midwest Independent Conference Assistant Coach of the Year. He coached 16 USAG All-Americans on vault and bars, a USAG national bar champion and two USAG bar runners-up.
Griffeth earn his bachelor and master’s degrees from Georgia. He began his career in gymnastics as a graduate assistant under Clark and in 2012 served as the program’s administrative associate.
He is married to LSU gymnastics assistant coach Courtney McCool Griffeth. They have three daughters, Rae, Blakely and Ryleigh.