Gymnastics
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- codyllew@uw.edu
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BIOGRAPHY | |
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Cody Llewellyn has spent the last three seasons as an assistant for the Husky gymnastics program. Lllewellyn leads the GymDawgs on bars, where the team finished the 2024 season ranked No. 28 nationally. Llewellyn guided his first student-athlete at Washington to NCAA Nationals, as senior Skylar Killough-Wilhelm qualified as an individual all-arounder for the NCAA National Championships. Killough-Wilhelm, who earned a career-high 9.975 on bars in a home meet with Arizona in 2024, was one of three GymDawgs to earn a 9.9+ on bars this season (along with Lilly Tubbs’ 9.950 and Taylor Russon’s 9.900). Killough-Wilhelm, who earned First Team All-Pac-12 All-Around, Regional Floor Co-Champion (9.950) and two-time Pac-12 Coaches Choice of the Week — received her first All-American honors in Fort Worth where she earned First Team All-American (Bars) and Second Team All-American (All-Around) honors. Lllewellyn led the BarDawgs in 2023, helping them earn a season-high 49.475 at the P&G Classic. In 2023, Llewellyn guided the GymDawgs to their first regional final appearance since the 2018 season. The team earned a 196.775, their second highest team score of the year, in the second round of the Los Angeles Regionals to advance to the Regional Final for the first time in five seasons. The squad’s 196.775 was good for a second place finish in the Huskies’ session of the Regional, upsetting then No. 12 Auburn and besting Southern Utah. Llewellyn helped push the GymDawgs to their highest score ever at Regionals in the 2022 season where they faced No. 5 Alabama, No. 12 Michigan State and BYU. Washington finished with a final team score of 197.175, the second time the Huskies broke the 197 mark that year. Llewellyn joined the UW coaching staff in 2021 after three successful seasons as an assistant coach with the Lindenwood women’s gymnastics program. With Llewellyn on staff, the Lions won three of their six straight MIC championships, a USAG National Title and an NCAA Regional qualifying berth in 2019. In 2021, Llewellyn oversaw a bars lineup that earned a program record 48.9 NQS and a 39th ranking nationally. Llewellyn helped guide a young lineup comprised of four freshmen and two seniors to a conference and USAG best NQS this past season. Lindenwood sent three gymnasts to NCAA regionals in 2021 and finished with a 6th MIC conference title. In three seasons serving as the primary bars coach, Llewellyn has helped lead Lindenwood to its three highest NQS finishes in the program’s nine-year history. In 2019, Lindenwood had its most successful season in program history. The Lions established a conference record by winning their fifth consecutive MIC Championship. Lindenwood became just the third-ever NCAA Division II program to compete in an NCAA Regional. The Lions set a new program record in 2019 with a RQS of 195.400, the highest mark in program history. Llewellyn has earned recognition as two-time NCAA Regional Division II Coaching Staff of the Year, USAG Assistant Coach of the Year (2019) and MIC Assistant Coach of the Year (2019) in his tenure at Lindenwood. Llewellyn earned his bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University in 2011 with a master’s degree from Lindenwood University in 2013. Llewellyn is married to Jen Llewellyn, current head coach of the Washington gymnastics program, and they have a son and daughter, William Grayson and Blakely. |
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