| MULKEY HEAD COACHING RECORD - NCATA |
| Year |
School |
Record |
Postseason |
| 2011 |
Oregon |
8-1 |
Champions |
| 2012 |
Oregon |
8-0 |
Champions |
| 2013 |
Oregon |
8-0 |
Champions |
| 2014 |
Oregon |
9-1 |
Champions |
| 2015 |
Baylor |
9-0 |
Champions |
| 2016 |
Baylor |
10-0 |
Champions |
| 2017 |
Baylor |
8-1 |
Champions |
| 2018 |
Baylor |
11-0 |
Champions |
| 2019 |
Baylor |
12-0 |
Champions |
| 2020 |
Baylor |
6-0 |
COVID Shortened Season |
| 2021 |
Baylor |
6-1 |
Champions |
| 2022 |
Baylor |
11-0 |
Champions |
| 2023 |
Baylor |
11-0 |
Champions |
| 2024 |
Baylor |
11-0 |
Champions |
| 2025 |
Baylor |
12-0 |
Champions |
| Total |
15 Seasons |
140-4 |
14 Titles |
| Oregon |
5 Seasons |
43-2 |
4 Titles |
| Baylor |
11 Seasons |
107-2 |
10 Titles |
| ALL-TIME HONORS UNDER MULKEY |
| Year |
School |
Indv. Event Titles |
All-Americans |
| 2011 |
Oregon |
6 |
1 |
| 2012 |
Oregon |
6 |
3 |
| 2013 |
Oregon |
12 |
4 |
| 2014 |
Oregon |
6 |
3 |
| 2015 |
Baylor |
7 |
3 |
| 2016 |
Baylor |
5 |
3 |
| 2017 |
Baylor |
5 |
3 |
| 2018 |
Baylor |
6 |
3 |
| 2019 |
Baylor |
8 |
4 |
| 2020 |
Baylor |
- |
- |
| 2021 |
Baylor |
- |
3 |
| 2022 |
Baylor |
3 |
3 |
| 2023 |
Baylor |
5 |
4 |
| 2024 |
Baylor |
7 |
4 |
| Total |
14 Seasons |
85 |
45 |
| Oregon |
5 Seasons |
30 |
11 |
| Baylor |
11 Seasons |
55 |
34 |
A transcendent leader on the forefront of the growing sport of acrobatics and tumbling, Felecia Mulkey has won all 14 of the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association (NCATA) championships offered and boasts a career record of 140-4 over 15 seasons as a head coach of acrobatics and tumbling in the NCATA.
In the 2025 season, she was in her 11th year as the head coach at Baylor and has completely changed the program since arriving in Waco in June of 2014. After winning four-straight NCATA titles at the University of Oregon, she has led the Bears to 10-straight NCATA championships with a 107-2 record in Waco and compiled a 50-meet win streak (2021-25) as she has tutored 34 NCATA-All-Americans in 11 seasons.
The 2025 season put another undefeated slate under Mulkey's belt, going 12-0 and extending the undefeated meet streak to 50 to end the season. Her Bears had 10 meet wins by over 10 points, and three meet scores of 280 or more. Coach Fee was named NCATA Coach of the Year and saw her athletes sweep the DI end of season awards with Jordan Gruendler earning her third-consecutive Specialist of the Year title, Payton Washington being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year, and Leavy McDonald taking the Freshman crown. Those three along with Emily Bott were named NCATA All-America and Gruendler also was named to the All-Academic Team, while 35 Bears were named to the NCATA Academic Honor Roll. The trio of Washington, McDonald and Gruendler swept the weekly awards three times this season as well. The Championships, taking place in Sioux Falls, S.D., saw BU defeat Limestone, Augustana and Oregon to earn the title before winning a school-record nine individual event titles. The Bears earned 12 perfect 10s on the season, including a record five 10s in one meet, coming against Oregon on Senior Day (4/5).
Baylor's ninth-straight NCATA Championship title came in the 2024 season, coming full circle for Mulkey as it was won at Fairmont State, where she won her first title with Baylor in 2015. She led four student-athletes to All-American status (Riley Chimwala, Jordan Gruendler, Bayley Humphrey, Payton Washington) as well as the three who swept the DI end-of-season awards (Washington - Freshman, Chimwala - Most Outstanding, Gruendler - Specialist). Another undefeated season under her belt, the Bears used the 11-0 record to keep their 38-meet winning streak. BU was the only team to score a 280 or higher in a meet, and had nine weekly awards earned from the NCATA, one of which was a sweep. The Bears faced three new teams including Augustana, Iona, LIU and Texas Lutheran. Baylor recorded one perfect 10 score on the season, in the Open Pyramid against LIU (3/5). The Bears defeated Fairmont State (host), Oregon and Gannon en route to the title. Baylor earned seven individual event titles, one in each event - Five-Element Acro, Six-Element Acro, Seven-Element Acro, Inversion Pyramid, 450 Salto Toss, Six-Element Tumbling, Open Tumbling.
The Bears won their eighth-straight national championship in the 2023 season under the direction of Mulkey, continuing a 26-meet win streak originating in 2021. BU had another perfect 11-0 season and had a record five home meets in the Ferrell Center. Kamryn Kitchens earned four Athlete of the Week accolades en route to being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year, while Baylor captured six Specialist of the Week awards from the NCATA by Riley Chimwala, Jordan Gruendler and Bayley Humphrey; Gruendler being named Specialist of the Year. In addition, Gianna Cameron had one Freshman of the Week award and three honorable mention awards on her way to being named Freshman of the Year. Kitchens was also named to the All-Academic Team while 25 made the NCATA Honor Roll. Chimwala, Humphrey, Kitchens and Emily Tobin were all named NCATA All-America as well. In addition, Tobin and Grayson Moore earned the Big 12 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award. Mulkey’s 80
th Baylor win came against Oregon on April 1 and the Bears recorded 11 perfect 10.0 scores on the season, the most coming in the Pyramid event. BU won five individual event titles in the Six-Element Acro, Seven-Element Acro, Synchronized Pyramid, 450 Salto Toss and the Open Tumbling Pass with Kitchens.
The 2022 season saw three individual national titles for the Bears and the seventh-straight NCATA National Championship, Mulkey’s 11th-straight title in her career. Mulkey saw BU gain two yearly NCATA awards, with Emily Tobin being named Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year and Bayley Humphrey being named Specialist of the Year. The Bears had three named NCATA All-Americans in Tobin, Humphrey and Riley Chimwala. In addition, BU had three individual event national champion titles with the Seven-Element Acro, Inversion Pyramid, and Briana Harris in the Open Tumbling Pass. Baylor got it done on the mats and in the classroom, with Kamryn Kitchens named All-Academic and 26 other student-athletes named to the NCATA Academic Honor Roll. Six newcomers were named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team for Baylor, and 27 student-athletes were named to the Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Team.
Mulkey won her 10th-career national championship and sixth-straight while at the helm at Baylor in 2021 as the No. 2 seed in the 2021 NCATA National Championships hosted inside the Ferrell Center. The Bears first defeated No. 3 seed Oregon in the semifinal, before downing No. 1 seed Azusa Pacific in the championship meet. Baylor finished the season with a 6-1 record, while earning a number of individual honors at the end of the season. For the fourth-consecutive time, a Baylor student-athlete was named the NCATA Most Outstanding Athlete as Emily Tobin earned the honor, while Riley Chimwala was named the NCATA Freshman of the Year. Tobin, Chimwala and Kam Kitchens all earned All-America honors, while Maddie McNamee was named the Louise Goodrum Academic Award winner.
In 2020, Mulkey’s Bears were ranked No. 1 nationally, 6-0 and had won four meets to start the season before it was cancelled due to COVID-19.
In 2019 she guided the Bears to an unprecedented fifth-straight NCATA title, winning a program record 14 meets as the Bears went 14-0 on the year to finish with a 278.400-271.725 victory over Oregon in the NCATA team final in front of the home fans at the Ferrell Center. Ashley Echelberger was named the NCATA Most Outstanding Athlete, becoming the third-straight Bear to win the title and the fourth such honor under Mulkey’s leadership. Top Joie Hensley was named NCATA Specialist of the Year and four Bears (Kaylee Adams, Hope Bravo, Ceara Gray and Echlelberger) were named NCATA All-Americans.
In 2018, the Bears went 11-0, the third undefeated season in four years en route to winning the program’s fourth-straight NCATA title. Mulkey was named NCATA Coach of the Year for the second time in her career. The Bears defeated Quinnipiac, 283.360-274.650, while winning all
six events. Ceara Gray earned Most Outstanding Player and Kaylee Adams Specialist of the Year. Gray, Adams and Lauren Sturm earned All-America honors.
In 2017, Mulkey’s squad went 9-1 and finished the season with eight straight wins to secure the program’s third straight NCATA national title. When it was all said and done, the Bears had three NCATA All-Americans (Kiara Nowlin (NCATA Most Outstanding Player), Kaelyn Cowan and
Lauren Sturm) for the second consecutive year and third time since 2013, five NCATA individual event titles, 15 Academic All-Big 12 At-Large honorees and a then-program-record four NCATA Player of the Week awards.
During the 2016 season, Mulkey led Baylor to a second straight perfect record (10-0) en route to claiming the 2016 NCATA national championship. Along the way, Kiara Nowlin, Shayla Moore and Kaelyn Cowan earned NCATA All-American honors.
After guiding the Oregon Ducks to four consecutive NCATA national championships in five years, Mulkey, in her first season as Baylor’s head coach, guided the Bears to the program’s first NCATA national championship, defeating the defending champion Oregon Ducks three times en route to the crown. The Bears posted a program-best 11-0 record. Sophomore Kiara Nowlin, freshman Shayla Moore and senior Keegan Johnson received 2015 NCATA All-America honors and the Bears claimed eight event titles. In addition, Nowlin was named the 2015 NCATA Most Outstanding Player and Moore earned Freshman of the Year recognition.
Mulkey was the head coach at the University of Oregon from 2009 through 2014, first at the helm of the competitive stunts and gymnastics team and that evolved into acrobatics and tumbling and the inaugural season of the NCATA in 2011. At the helm of the Ducks, Mulkey boasted a 43-2 overall record while winning four national championships, 30 event titles, 11 All- America honors, two Athlete of the Year accolades, a Newcomer of the Year honor and a Coach of the Year award.
In her 13 seasons as a head coach of acrobatics and tumbling, Mulkey has an overall record of 117-4 while winning 12 national titles, 69 event titles, coached 37 student-athletes to All-America honors with eight earning Athlete of the Year awards.
Off the mat, Mulkey works tirelessly in growing the sport of acrobatics and tumbling. She continues to play a key role in the progression of acrobatics & tumbling’s effort to gain NCAA sport status. Prior to the 2010-11 season, Mulkey was a catalyst in developing the scoring format that is currently in practice in acrobatics and tumbling meets. She currently serves as the Director of Expansion for the NCATA (National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association), acting as the liaison between the sport and athletic directors looking to add the sport as A&T pushes into becoming an NCAA Championship sport. A&T became a NCAA Emerging Sport for Women at all three divisions in 2020.
She has also influenced many of her former student-athletes to give back to the sport that has given them so much, as 11 of them are currently head coaches of collegiate acrobatics & tumbling programs at universities and colleges around the country. With 37 active programs entering the 2023 season, that accounts for almost a third of the head coaches nationally.
Prior to her stint at Oregon, Mulkey built the Kennesaw State competitive cheer program into a national powerhouse. The Owls finished fourth in the 2008 All-Women’s Division I Collegiate Championships after capturing national titles in 2004 and 2005.
Mulkey, a 1998 Kennesaw State health and exercise science graduate, oversaw the development of a program that finished no worse than third nationally from 2001 through 2007. Her success resulted in the program ascending to the Division I level in 2006. Her dedication to her alma mater led her to being inducted into the Kennesaw State Athletics
Hall of Fame in the fall of 2019.
Prior to transferring and taking over the head coaching reins at the Kennesaw, Ga., school in May 1997, Mulkey cheered for two years at Southern Union State (Wadley, Ala.), and led the Bison to an eighth-place national finish in 1995.
In addition to directing the Owls’ spirit and competitive programs, Mulkey served as the school’s sports operations director from 2007-2008 as well as the sports marketing and promotions director from 2000-06.
The Atlanta, Ga., native is married to Jeff Nunes and the couple have three dachshunds.
