Utah State University Athletics

Stephen Hood is in his first season as an assistant coach at Utah State. He is the primary coach on vault and co-coach on bars.

Hood arrived in Logan after spending the previous four seasons as an assistant coach at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. During his time at TWU, Hood served as both the vault and bars coach, recruiting coordinator, academic coordinator, camp director, spotter and was in charge of the daily practice schedule. In 2020-21, the Pioneers were the academic national champions with a team GPA of 3.8881.

In his first year at TWU, Hood helped lead the Pioneers to the 2018 USA Gymnastics (USAG) Collegiate National Championship, as well as a national title on vault. Texas Woman’s was also the 2021 USAG collegiate national vault champion.

Hood joined the Pioneers from the University of Central Florida, where he was a member of the two-time world champion cheer team. The four-year letterman also led the squad to a European Open Championship and a national champion runner-up finish on three occasions.

The native of Navarre, Florida, served as the women’s team coach and women’s recreational program director at Gulf Coast Gymnastics, where he trained and mentored new staff, held various coaching positions at multiple levels, oversaw the developmental program, led various recreational programs, and kept up with facility maintenance and improvements.

Hood, who is married to Utah State volunteer assistant gymnastics coach Abby Hood, graduated from Central Florida in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.

Stephen Hood File
Coaching History:
2021 – Utah State – Assistant Coach
2017-21 – Texas Woman’s University – Assistant Coach

Education:
2017 – Central Florida – Industrial Engineering