Gymnastics Head Coach Stephanie Worrell is stepping down after nearly two years in the role, officials announced Tuesday. 

Worrell, who began her career at GW in 2009 as an undergraduate gymnast before returning as an assistant coach in 2015, is departing the program having racked up several individual and team accolades, including two All-EAGL First Team nominations and two NCAA Regional individual appearances as a four-year letterwinner gymnast, and helping lead the Revolutionaries to three East Atlantic Gymnastic League Championship victories as a coach. Worrell said she is departing GW to pursue a career beyond collegiate athletics, but expressed gratitude for her athletic and professional experiences at the University.

“This was not an easy decision, as coaching this team has been one of the greatest privileges of my career,” Worrell said in an email. “Having been at GW nearly since I arrived on campus as a first year in 2009, you can imagine the memories, passion and love I have for this university and gymnastics program.” 

Worrell, originally from Erie, PA., began her time at GW as a freshman gymnast in 2010, competing in all 13 regular-season meets. The following year, she competed in six meets on the floor exercise, recording a career-high 9.825 in the event at the 2011 EAGL Championships. As a junior in 2012, Worrell’s performances earned her an All-EAGL First Team nod for the floor exercise and all-around events, and qualified for the NCAA Fayetteville Regional competition.

Worrell’s 2013 senior season, she returned to NCAA Regional competition and earned consecutive All-EAGL First Team honors for the same events. GW renamed the Most Consistent Award to “The Stoicovy,” Worrell’s maiden name, after she competed in every competition all-around that season. 

Worrell said that upon earning her undergraduate degree in exercise science in 2013 and leaving Foggy Bottom, she felt drawn to return to GW and the gymnastics program.

“I have a vivid memory of driving home to my parents’ house in Pennsylvania after graduation and I felt almost a magnetic pull that I would be back at GW because my time there wasn’t done just yet,” Worrell said. “Then a little over two years later the opportunity arose and I was back coaching the sport I love at the University I love even more.” 

Worrell returned to GW as an assistant coach in 2015 under the leadership of then-Head Coach Margie Foster-Cunningham, helping the Revs win the EAGL Championship two years later, in 2017. In 2018, Worrell was named the EAGL Assistant Coach of the Year and the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches for Women Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year. After the Revs won another EAGL title in 2022, Worrell was named associate head coach, a position she held until Foster-Cunningham retired in summer 2024, when officials promoted her.

In her first season in charge of gymnastics, Worrell led the program to its fourth EAGL Championship victory and earned EAGL Coach of the Year, helping then-sophomore Delaney DeHaan earn EAGL Gymnast of the Year and four Revs qualify as individuals at 2025 NCAA competitions. The 2026 season saw senior Deana Sheremeta and sophomore Lola Montevago compete at the Tempe Regional, despite the Revs finishing fifth out of five teams in the EAGL Championship.

As she departs Foggy Bottom, Worrell said she has created lifelong memories as a student-athlete and coach, like photoshoots around Washington, D.C. and riding the “RaiseHigh” bus to the EAGL Championships during her senior year standing out. But Worrell said she will also remember challenging moments when student-athletes struggled and she helped them preserve and overcome obstacles. 

“The days when athletes asked for help, the days we cried together, the days we came up with plans to help take the next step forward,” she said. “Then days, weeks, months or years later, watching them celebrate the achievements they accomplished in the classroom, on the competition floor, and in life because they were brave enough to take the next step after bumps or roadblocks in their path.”