Marie Denick

Biography

Marie Case Denick will begin her eighth season at North Carolina in 2024-25, and her fourth alongside head coach Danna Durante. In Summer 2024, she was elevated to Associate Head Coach. Denick was named the 2022 East Atlantic Gymnastics League Assistant Coach of the Year in her first season with Durante. In 2024, she successfully helped lead the Tar Heels into their first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Denick served as the interim head coach for the Carolina gymnastics program in 2020-21. After one year as an assistant coach and two as the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator, Denick’s impact has been evident. Despite the shortened 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, Denick helped Khazia Hislop receive her third All-America recognition of her career and her first on vault. In both 2018 and 2019, Hislop earned second team All-America honors and the EAGL championship title on floor exercise. Denick also coached back-to-back EAGL champions on vault with Hislop winning the event in 2019 and Madison Nettles in 2018. In 2018, Carolina also finished the season ranked sixth in the nation in floor exercise, largely due to Denick. In 2024 – UNC's first season in the ACC – Denick served as the primary bars coach where she led Lali Dekanoidze and Isabelle Schaefer to a 1-2 finish on the uneven bars at the ACC Championships. Both gymnasts ranked in the top-6 on bars in the Southeast Region and earned individual berths to the NCAA Regional Championships. Off t