University of Missouri Athletics

Part of the 2025 WCGA Assistant Coaches of the Year and the College Gym News Coaches of the Year, Whitney Snowden joined the University of Missouri gymnastics staff in July 2022, who joins Mizzou following three seasons with Michigan State.

In the team's historic 2025 season, the Tigers' had their best season on the uneven bars in MU history under the leadership of Snowden. The team finished the regular season ranked fourth nationally in the event, never falling outside the top 10 for the entire season. Mizzou set five of the 10 best scores in the event in program history, including tying the second-best mark during the team's SEC Championship meet of 49.575.

At the conference title meet, Mara Titarsolej scored the second perfect 10 on bars by a Tiger and won her second-consecutive SEC Bars Championship. She capped off her career in third place for the NCAA Gymastics Uneven Bars title. Missouri saw three student-athletes earn WCGA All-America status on bars - Titarsolej on First Team and Hannah Horton and Olivia Kelly on Second Team. Titarsolej also notched a spot on the WCGA Regular Season All-America First Team. Amari Celestine and Titarsolej became the first Missouri gymnasts since 1999 to record five-straight scores of 9.900 or better, with Celestine doing so five meets in a row while Titarsolej did so a staggering eight times. 

2024 served as the Missouri's best season on bars in program history under Snowden's guise. The Tigers' bar squad finished the season ranked No. 11 in the country, the best finish on the apparatus in program history, with a team-record 49.420 NQS. Several gymnasts compiled their best season on the event in 2024, with all six regular starters achieving multiple 9.9s throughout the season.

The program bars record fell twice during the 2024 season, as the Tigers hit 49.500 on the event at Mizzou to the Lou on Feb. 16 then notched a 49.600 team score at the Mizzou Quad on March 10. In total, the Tigers recorded six scores that rank among the top-10 team bar scores in Missouri history.

Snowden guided Mara Titarsolej to one of the best seasons on uneven bars in Missouri history. In her first season with Missouri, Titarsolej earned WCGA Regular Season All-America Second Team honors with a program-record 9.950 NQS on bars that tied for 10th in the nation. Additionally, Titarsolej became Missouri's first-ever conference bars champion at the 2024 SEC Championship, earned All-SEC honors and earned the program's first perfect 10 on bars.

In her first season with the Tigers, Snowden helped the program break records in the 2023 season with her coaching. Against Arkansas, Mizzou set a new program-high score of a 197.850 to defeat the Razorbacks in Fayetteville. The bars squad played a major role in the program-record result, as Mizzou broke the apparatus record with a 49.450 behind three 9.9s.

At the end of her first season with Mizzou, the bars unit ranked 18th in the nation, the team's best ranking on that event since 2010, with a 49.325 NQS that served as the program's best score to date.

Over her three seasons at Michigan State, Snowden helped the Spartans to their first postseason berth since 2016. The Spartans also finished second in the 2022 Big Ten Championships, their best performance since 2006. 

In 2022, Michigan State went on a record-breaking campaign. Snowden, who oversaw development on vault and floor, helped the Spartans to a new high of 49.4 on vault and 49.675 on floor. As a program Michigan State finished ninth in the country, the best finish in Spartan history. Snowden was named 2022 WCGA Region 4 Assistant Coach of the Year and a member of the 2022 WCGA Coaching Staff of the Year.

Prior to her time at Michigan State she had been an educational clinician and consultant. She previously worked with the Pan-American Gymnastics Union to establish and promote the sport of gymnastics in St. Vincent and Grenadines. In addition, she was worked as a vault clinician for USA Gymnastics, helping educate coaches and athletes on current vaulting techniques.