Tina Bird - Women's Gymnastics Coach - Boise State University Athletics

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Tina Bird

Title:
Co-Head Coach
Email:
tbird@boisestate.edu
Phone:
208-559-8448

Tina Bird, a former Boise State gymnast, has spent the last 30-plus years on staff with the Broncos, and has been either head coach or co-head coach since 2008.

Becoming the Broncos’ lone head coach in 2020, Bird led the team to winning the inaugural Mountain West Championship in 2024, while also being named conference coach of the year. Boise State also recorded the highest conference championships team beam scores in program history, scoring a 49.500. Courtney Blackson earned her second All-America honor, tying for sixth on bars at the NCAA Championships.

Boise State claimed the MW regular season championship the following season (2025), as well as her second-consecutive MW Coach of the Year title.

In 2023, Bird coached Blackson and Emily Lopez who both scored perfect tens on vault and bars, respectively. Blackson earned the fourth 10.000 in program history in the event at NCAA Regionals, while Lopez earned the first against BYU. Blackson capped the season with a runner-up finish on vault at the NCAA Championships.

During her time as co-head coach, the Broncos won nine conference championships, including a streak of five-straight (2015-19) - tied for the longest by a Boise State athletic program in school history. She and Neil Resnick were named conference co-head coaches of the year six times, and NCAA West Region Coaches of the Year in both 2008 and 2017. Bird and Resnick were honored three times each in both the Western Athletic Conference (2008, 2009 and 2013) and Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference (2016, 2017 and 2018).

The duo led the Broncos to the NCAA Regional in each of their 12 seasons at the helm of the program, and Boise State concluded each season ranked in the top 25 nationally – including a high of No. 13 in both 2011 and 2017, the best season-ending rankings in school history.

Boise State went a combined 214-72 (.748) in the 12 seasons under Bird and Resnick.

In 2019, Boise State closed the year with a streak of 12-consecutive weeks in the top 15 in Road to Nationals, the longest streak since the organization began publishing rankings in 1998. The Broncos also set the team beam score record on Feb. 15, 2019 (49.550), breaking a mark that had stood since Feb. 27, 2002, and tied the team bars score record on March 1 (49.575), a mark that was initially set March 6, 2015.

At the 2019 MRGC Championships, the Broncos set and tied the all-time conference championship scoring record on bars (49.475) and beam (49.350), respectively, en route to the third-highest score at a conference meet in school history (196.950).

During the 2016 campaign, Boise State concluded the regular season as the nation’s only undefeated team (15-0) across all divisions, and from Feb. 29, 2008 through March 7, 2019, the Broncos were undefeated at home in what is now known as ExtraMile Arena.

Perhaps more impressive than the athletic accomplishments are what the team has accomplished in the classroom. The team combined for the highest grade-point average in the country among gymnastics programs in 2015-16, 2017-18 and 2018-19. The team also finished No. 2 nationally in 2016-17 and 2020-21, No. 3 in 2014-15 and 2021-22 and No. 5 in 2019-20. The gymnastics team also established the Boise State Athletics single-semester (3.86) and cumulative team GPA (3.78) records.

In addition to the coaching accolades, several student-athletes have achieved top honors. Amy Glass was named the 2012 AAI Award winner for the nation's top gymnast, while also earning the 2010 NCAA West Region Gymnast of the Year and 2011 WAC Gymnast of the Year honors.

Glass is one of six individuals to be named conference Gymnast of the Year under Bird’s guidance, a list that also includes Hannah Redmon (2008, WAC), Caitlin Mann (2013, WAC), Cierra Perkins (2014, MRGC), Shani Remme (2017 and 2018, MRGC) and Emily Lopez (2024, MW).

Redmon (2008) and Remme (2016) were also named conference freshman of the year, as were Maddie Krentz (2013) and Diana Mejia (2014).

Glass was the first NCAA All-American under the coaching duo, earning a second-team honor on balance beam (9.90) after her seventh-place finish at the 2012 NCAA Championships. Glass was also the first two-time national qualifier under Bird and Resnick, advancing to the national meet in 2011 and 2012 in the all-around.

Three Broncos garnered All-America status in 2016, the most in a single season in school history - Krystine Jacobsen was a first-team honoree on bars, and both Krentz and Sandra Collantes earned second-team nods on floor. Remme was named second-team All-America in both 2018 and 2019, earning the accolade in the all-around and on beam, respectively.

Jacobsen finished the regular season tied for first in the country on bars with an RQS of 9.95, making her the first Bronco in program history to end the regular season ranked first in the country in any event.

Emily Muhlenhaupt was named a first-team All-American on bars in 2020, just the fifth individual in school history to garner first-team accolades, and the third to do so on bars. She went on to earn the honor in 2021 and 2022 as well, the only three-time first-team All-American in program history.

Lopez earned second-team All-American honors on bars in 2023 for both the regular season and at the NCAA National Championships.

Blackson was named a two-time first-team All-American on vault in 2023 and on vault in 2024. Blackson was the first Bronco to earn first-team honors on two different events.

Broncos have captured 49 individual conference championships and have recorded 110 first-team all-conference accolades with Bird at the helm of the program.

Prior to being named co-head coach, Bird had spent 18 seasons as an assistant under Sam Sandmire (1990-2007). Originally from Milwaukie, Ore., she came to Boise State in 1985 as a freshman on the gymnastics team under former head coach Jackie Carringer. She was a scholarship athlete for Boise State from 1986-89. Bird held the school record on floor for four years.

Bird was selected to coach at the NCAA Youth Education through Sports (YES) clinic in conjunction with the NCAA National Championships in 1998 and 2001. She served as the site coordinator for the YES clinic in April of 2000 when Boise State hosted the NCAA National Championships. Bird also served on the USA Gymnastics Idaho State Board in 2005.

A 1990 graduate of Boise State with a degree in physical education, she was honored as an All-American Scholar Athlete by the national coaches' association. Bird coached at Bronco Elite Gymnastics Academy from 1996-2005, and was the site coordinator for the Special Olympics Summer Gymnastics Games in 1991.

She has three children - a son, Travis, and two daughters, McKenna and Julianne.