Shelby Armstrong was named the first head coach of the LIU acrobatics & tumbling program in March 2023.
Armstrong arrived from her alma mater, the University of Oregon, where she most recently served as an assistant coach.
She previously served as the head coach at Mars Hill University as well as at Davis and Elkins College, similarly building the first acrobatics & tumbling teams at the schools.
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As a student-athlete at Oregon, Armstrong helped lead the Ducks to back-to-back national titles.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in general social science from Oregon in 2016 and a master’s degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia at Irvine in 2019.
LIU announced the addition of acrobatics & tumbling in January 2023, becoming the eighth program to sponsor acrobatics & tumbling at the NCAA Division I level.
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