Tanya Ho Gomez enters her fourth season at the helm of the Aggies gymnastics program and her second as the full-time head coach. Ho was officially named the head coach on May 1, 2023.
Ho Gomez guided the Aggies to the NCAA Seattle Regional, the first time an Aggie team had gone to the NCAA Regionals since 2015, thanks to UC Davis scoring over 196 three times over the final six meets. In fact, the Aggies made an historic run at the regionals storming back by not scoring any lower than 195.800 over those final six meets.
Amelia Moneymaker (All-Around), Keanna Abraham (Floor/Vault) and Megan Ray (Vault) all also qualified individually for the NCAA Regionals. Moneymaker set a school record in the all-around and Abraham set a record on vault to highlight a few of the top Aggie performances through the season.
During the 2024 season Ho led her team to new records and a second place finish in the MPSF Championships. The team kicked off the season with a 4-meet win streak. The Ags hit a mark of 195 and above 8 times this season. The Ags broke multiple school and conference records in their final home meet of the season against Alaska Anchorage and Illinois State, including the highest team score in UC Davis history and the second highest in MPSF history with a 197.025.
As the interim head coach in 2023, Ho immediately put her winning imprint on her alma mater. Ho guided the Aggies to the MPSF title as the No. 2 championship seed with a team national qualifying score of 195.965.
UC Davis broke 196 in five meets, including the 196.200 en route to the team title. The Aggies totaled three of the MPSF's top-nine all-time scores in the final month of the regular season, including the No. 2 all-time ranking of 196.750. The last eight meets of the season all went for at least 195.250.
In the final regular season meet at No. 7 California, the UCD vault (49.225) and beam (49.275) squads both equaled the third-best total in MPSF history. The bars team recorded an all-time top-10 MPSF total of 49.200 (Feb. 12). In consecutive weeks in February, the Aggie floor squad tied their school record and tallied the No. 2 all-time MPSF total of 49.525, a score not reached in the conference in two decades.
Individually, newcomer Amelia Moneymaker was named the MPSF Freshman of the Year and the Aggies were rewarded with 18 conference accolades.
The postseason at UC Davis continued under her watch as Keanna Abraham and Megan Ray qualified for the NCAA Pittsburgh Regional on both vault and floor.
A member of the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame and a veteran of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Ho, who originally hails from nearby Elk Grove, previously served as the head coach for Alaska Anchorage from 2018-20. She made an immediate impact on the program, first mentoring the MPSF Freshman of the Year (Isabelle Fox) in her initial season, then garnering the conference’s Coach of the Year award in 2019. In Ho’s second year, UAA posted four of the top 10 team scores in program history, with a 194.200 at the MPSF championships representing just one of 17 school records set that year. In 2020, the Seawolves hit a 193.525 – No. 7 in the record book – before the COVID-19 pandemic ended the season.
Before her arrival in Alaska, Ho served five years at Sacramento State under head coaches Kim Hughes and Randy Solorio. During her run, the Hornets won two MPSF team titles and produced 11 individual NCAA regional qualifiers. For her part, Ho snared MPSF Assistant Coach of the Year distinction in 2016.
A 2010 UC Davis graduate in exercise biology, Ho won 13 All-MPSF awards and nine conference weekly honors. She was the first Aggie gymnast to make three straight trips to the NCAA postseason, the second to make the region meet in back-to-back years as an all-arounder, and the fourth to crack the 39-point barrier in the all-around. Ho entered the CAAHOF in 2016.
