Jay Clark

Jay Clark is the head coach of the LSU Tigers gymnastics program at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He coached LSU to their first NCAA Championship title in 2024. Clarke previous served as Head Coach at the Georgia GymDogs before moving to the LSU Tigers in 2012.

Coaching career

Georgia (1990-2012) Clark started as an assistant coach at the Georgia Gym Dogs in 1990. He also served as the recruiting coordinator from 1999-2009 and associate head coach from 2005-09 when Georgia won a record five-straight NCAA national titles. He was promoted to head coach in 2009 when Suzanne Yoculan retired after 25 years with the team. During that time the Gym Dogs captured three NCAA individual national championships.

Clark also coached at the club level for 13 years from 1992-2005 as the founder, owner and head coach of Classic City Gymnastics in Athens, Georgia.

Personal life Clark is a native of Roswell, Georgia. He graduated from Roswell High School and the University of Georgia . He has two children, a son, Cole, and a daughter, Kinsey.