Women's Gymnastics
Quest Hayden
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Quest Hayden joined the Buckeye staff as an assistant coach in June of 2024. Hayden is a collegiate standout and United States National Team member with four years as an assistant coach at the women's collegiate level. He is the Buckeyes' primary vault coach.Â
Hayden has five years of experience coaching in the Big Ten. Prior to Ohio State, he spent three seasons at Iowa. There, he helped the Hawkeyes finish as high as 15th nationally with two team NCAA regional appearances and four individual gymnasts qualify for NCAA regionals. While in Iowa City, he helped student-athletes to six All-America awards.
Hayden earned his first assistant coach position at North Carolina, where he was on staff for the 2021 season. During that campaign, he helped the Tar Heels to a No. 41 national ranking. Hayden coached Elizabeth Culton to All-America honors and to an EAGL bar and all-around title. Culton also represented the Tar Heels at the NCAA Athens Regional.
Hayden spent the 2020 season as a volunteer assistant at Michigan, where he was named the WCGA Northeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year after helping the Wolverines to the 2020 Big Ten regular season title. During that season, the team also posted the top two team scores in program history with a 197.950 at the Elevate the Stage meet in Toledo, Ohio and a 197.900 at home against New Hampshire.
He started his collegiate coaching career at his alma mater of Penn State. He was on staff as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2019 season and helped the team win vault at the Big Ten Championship meet and improve its national standings from 32nd to 24th.
Hayden made the jump into collegiate coaching after a four-year stint at Centre Elite Gymnastics in State College, Pa. where he coached bars and spotted on floor while managing the strength and conditioning program.
Hayden competed for Penn State's men's gymnastics program from 2015-18. During his collegiate career, he served as captain his senior season and was a member of the Nittany Lions' 2015 Big Ten Champion team, competing on four events during the team's championship run. He competed in the NCAA team finals that same season on high bar. He followed that campaign up with a 2016 NCAA team and individual championship appearance on pommel horse. He graduated from Penn State in 2018 with a degree in psychology.
Hayden was a member of the United States' 2013 United States National Team, competing at the 2013 P&G Championships and finishing third on horizontal bar and in the all-around.
Hayden has five years of experience coaching in the Big Ten. Prior to Ohio State, he spent three seasons at Iowa. There, he helped the Hawkeyes finish as high as 15th nationally with two team NCAA regional appearances and four individual gymnasts qualify for NCAA regionals. While in Iowa City, he helped student-athletes to six All-America awards.
Hayden earned his first assistant coach position at North Carolina, where he was on staff for the 2021 season. During that campaign, he helped the Tar Heels to a No. 41 national ranking. Hayden coached Elizabeth Culton to All-America honors and to an EAGL bar and all-around title. Culton also represented the Tar Heels at the NCAA Athens Regional.
Hayden spent the 2020 season as a volunteer assistant at Michigan, where he was named the WCGA Northeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year after helping the Wolverines to the 2020 Big Ten regular season title. During that season, the team also posted the top two team scores in program history with a 197.950 at the Elevate the Stage meet in Toledo, Ohio and a 197.900 at home against New Hampshire.
He started his collegiate coaching career at his alma mater of Penn State. He was on staff as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2019 season and helped the team win vault at the Big Ten Championship meet and improve its national standings from 32nd to 24th.
Hayden made the jump into collegiate coaching after a four-year stint at Centre Elite Gymnastics in State College, Pa. where he coached bars and spotted on floor while managing the strength and conditioning program.
Hayden competed for Penn State's men's gymnastics program from 2015-18. During his collegiate career, he served as captain his senior season and was a member of the Nittany Lions' 2015 Big Ten Champion team, competing on four events during the team's championship run. He competed in the NCAA team finals that same season on high bar. He followed that campaign up with a 2016 NCAA team and individual championship appearance on pommel horse. He graduated from Penn State in 2018 with a degree in psychology.
Hayden was a member of the United States' 2013 United States National Team, competing at the 2013 P&G Championships and finishing third on horizontal bar and in the all-around.
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