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Felecia “Fee” Mulkey is the most decorated coach in collegiate acrobatics and tumbling history. As the head coach at Baylor University since 2014, she has led the Bears to nine consecutive national championships, continuing a streak that began with four titles at the University of Oregon. Mulkey has won every National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) championship since the sport’s inception in 2011. 

Beyond her coaching accolades, Mulkey serves as the Director of Expansion for the NCATA, playing a pivotal role in the sport’s growth and its recognition as an NCAA emerging sport. Her innovative leadership has created unprecedented opportunities for female athletes nationwide.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. 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).

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.

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.