Brogan Evanson enters her third season as assistant coach for the Redhawks gymnastics team. Evanson is a former gymnastics standout at powerhouse Brigham Young University where she served on the Cougars' coaching staff as a volunteer assistant coach before joining the Southeast staff.

Following the 2007 season, she was named Co-Midwest Independent Conference Assistant Coach of the Year. She helped Southeast to a 17-9 overall record with nine gymnasts being named all-conference selections. Southeast's floor and beam routines were off the chart as they hit the top 15 nationally and improved vastly over last season with the balance beam RQS jumping almost a full point. Southeast finished the regular season second in the MIC on beam and floor and had the conference's second best beam worker and third best floor worker, thanks to the tutelage of Jacobsen-Evanson.

In 2005, she helped the Redhawks secure a bid in the NCAA South Central Regional with her choreography and coaching skills on the floor exercise and balance beam.

In addition to her coaching duties, Evanson serves as the recruiting coordinator that added six gymnasts to the Redhawk program for both the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Jacobsen-Evanson also coordinates all team community service events and activities. Currently under her direction, the Redhawk gymnasts are very involved in the Cape Girardeau chapter of the national organization Big Brothers Big Sisters and annually host the local girl scouts at "Girl Power", an event that promotes health, fitness, and confidence through sport.

"Brogan has been an extremely dedicated assistant coach. Her ability to create unique and exciting floor routines and her attention to details has been a huge asset to our program."Coach Farden

As a volunteer assistant coach at BYU two seasons ago, she played a part in the program's first NCAA Championship appearance in five years where the team finished 11th nationally. Evanson's responsibilities as a volunteer coach ranged from hosting and evaluating recruits, choreographing routines for athletes on the floor exercise, coaching uneven bars and developing conditioning programs for the athletes.

Evanson graduated from BYU in the spring of 2005 with a degree in exercise science, fitness and wellness management. She has also received her Personal Training Certification with the American College of Sports Medicine. While at BYU, she assisted in administering the conditionaing programs under the tutelage of 2004 Olympian Tiffany Lott-Hogan. Evanson's education and experience has helped bring the Redhawks' athleticism to a new level.

During one season she ranked 14th nationally on the uneven bars and scored a 9.975 on the bars against Utah to set a new school record. In her junior season, she recorded a perfect 10.000 on the floor exercise, which was only the fourth perfect score ever received by a Cougar gymnast in any event and the first on the floor.

As a student, she was awarded the BYU Scholar-Athlete Award four straight years. Jacobsen-Evanson has held many collegiate leadership positions, including co-chair of the BYU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and participated in the 2004 NCAA Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla. At BYU, she was nominated for the Lu Wallace Outstanding Senior Female Award, and awarded the Cougar Club Female Crowd Pleaser Award and Amberly Rupp Circle of Honor Award.

Coach Evanson is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. She is currently working on her graduate degree and in her spare time enjoys working out, skiing (water and snow) and spending time with her family. This past summer, she was married to Troy Evanson. Troy is originally from Denver, Colo., and they currently reside in Cape Girardeau.

Brogan Evanson is one of only four BYU gymnast to score a perfect 10.000 in an event when she did it in the floor exercises (photo courtesy of Mark Philbrick/BYU Photo)