Press release via Utah Athletics: 

The first move of the Megan Marsden-Tom Farden coaching era began today with the hiring of Meredith Paulicivic as Utah's new gymnastics assistant coach. Paulicivic (pronounced paul-a-civic) spent this past season as an assistant coach at Arizona.

 

The former Meredith King was a three-time vault All-American for Utah from 1991-94 and competed on Utah's 1992 and 1994 NCAA Championship teams. The team captain as a senior in 1994, she was the first Ute walk-on ever to earn All-America honors.

 

"I finally got recruited by the University of Utah," laughed Paulicivic. "Not as an athlete, but as a coach. I was a diehard Utah gymnastics fan as a little girl growing up in California and competing at Utah was always my dream. After I graduated from the U., it became my dream to return as a coach. I am thrilled to work alongside Megan and Tom and to coach student-athletes of this caliber."

 

"Meredith is a talented technical coach and choreographer," said Farden, who was promoted to co-head coach on Monday after five years as Utah's assistant coach. "She'll also be a big part of our recruiting effort. From her many years coaching elite-level gymnasts, Meredith will be a real asset in attracting the top talent to Utah."

 

The Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., native began her college coaching career as an assistant at California in 1996--spending one year with the Bears before leaving to coach at the club level at SCEGA Gymnastics in 1997. From 1997-2006, she served as the head choreographer for floor and beam at SCEGA, before taking over as the head coach in 2007. She left SCEGA after the 2014 season for the position at Arizona.

 

While at SCEGA, she coached a number of elite level gymnasts and six U.S. National Team members. Among those was former Ute All-American Rachel Tidd, who was a three-year U.S. National Team member during her time with Paulicivic and competed on the U.S. World Championships team that won the bronze medal in 2001. Another of her 31 SCEGA gymnasts to earn NCAA scholarships was UCLA's Brittani McCullough--the 2010 NCAA floor champion.

She is married to George Paulicivic. They have a son Corbin and daughters Blayne and Avery.