{"id":2067,"date":"2025-07-17T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/plocki-announces-retirement-kanewa-hermelyn-hired-as-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:49:07","slug":"plocki-announces-retirement-kanewa-hermelyn-hired-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/plocki-announces-retirement-kanewa-hermelyn-hired-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Plocki announces retirement, Kanewa-Hermelyn hired as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-552376\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Michigan women\u2019s gymnastics team <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/news\/2025\/7\/16\/womens-gymnastics-plocki-announces-retirement-after-historic-coaching-career\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday that coach Bev Plocki has retired after 36 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since becoming head coach in 1990, Plocki brought the Wolverines to new heights. Michigan captured\u00a0 26 Big Ten Championships, 26 NCAA Championship appearances and, most notably, the program\u2019s first national championship title in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She has also coached nine gymnasts to NCAA individual national titles and 53 NCAA All-Americans. Plocki herself has earned Big Ten Coach of the Year 11 times, NCAA Regional Coach of the Year 13 times and National Coach of the Year two times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been the journey of a lifetime, but let me be clear, I did not do this alone,\u201d Plocki said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/news\/2025\/7\/16\/womens-gymnastics-plocki-announces-retirement-after-historic-coaching-career\">announcement<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve had the honor of working alongside some of the most amazing assistant coaches in the country \u2014 coaches who challenged me, inspired me and gave their all to this program.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Taking over at the helm is former assistant coach, Maile\u2019ana Kanewa-Hermelyn. Kanewa-Hermelyn joined the coaching staff in 2019 as a volunteer coach and became a full-time assistant in 2020. Kanewa-Hermelyn was among the coaching staff that led the Wolverines to their first national title in 2021, and was the WCGA Assistant Coach of the Year that season. In her six years with Michigan, Kanewa-Hermelyn heavily contributed to the success of the Wolverines, especially their balance beam performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/news\/2025\/7\/16\/kanewa-hermelyn-elevated-to-head-coach-of-womens-gymnastics-program\">statement<\/a> on Wednesday, Plocki has been mentoring and preparing Kanewa-Hermelyn for this role for some time. So while Michigan\u2019s long-time head coach has retired, the Wolverines are in good hands with Kanewa-Hermelyn as their new but familiar leader.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan women\u2019s gymnastics team announced on Wednesday that coach Bev Plocki has retired after 36 years.\u00a0 Since becoming head coach in 1990, Plocki brought the Wolverines to new heights. Michigan captured\u00a0 26 Big Ten Championships, 26 NCAA Championship appearances and, most notably, the program\u2019s first national championship title in 2021.\u00a0 She has also coached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[712,1000,1698,2297,2295,2296],"class_list":{"0":"post-2067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-announces","9":"tag-coach","10":"tag-hired","11":"tag-kanewahermelyn","12":"tag-plocki","13":"tag-retirement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}