Sarah Patterson (coach)

rdf:langString Sarah Patterson (coach)

rdf:langString Sarah Patterson

rdf:langString Sarah Patterson

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rdf:langString Coached 23 NCAA Individual champions

rdf:langString Coached 4 NCAA Top VIII Award winners

rdf:langString Coached 40 SEC Individual champions

rdf:langString Coached 62 athletes to 277 All-American honors

rdf:langString Coached 71 athletes with 175 Scholastic All-American honors

rdf:langString Sarah Patterson is a former collegiate gymnastics coach. She served as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics team from 1979 to 2014. During her tenure, she built the program at the University of Alabama into one of the most successful in the history of college gymnastics. Patterson graduated from Union Endicott High School in 1974, Slippery Rock State College in 1978, and was named the head women's gymnastics coach at the University of Alabama by then Athletics Director Paul "Bear" Bryant later that year. Patterson is married to her former assistant coach, David Patterson. The Pattersons have two children, Jessie and Jordan, who was a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide softball 2012 NCAA championship team. Along with Georgia gymnastics coach Suzanne Yoculan, Patterson was featured in a 2014 ESPN documentary “Sarah & Suzanne" that looked at the rivalry of the two coaches and their gymnastic teams.