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Ashley Miles Greig

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Head Coach
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515-294-0555

Audio Pronunciation: Greeg

Four-time NCAA champion Ashley Miles Greig was named the eighth head coach in the history of the Iowa State women's gymnastics program April 26, 2023.

2025
After a promising turnaround in year one, injuries hampered the second season of the Miles Greig Era in Ames. ISU just missed qualifying for the NCAA postseason, but was able to send four individuals - Noelle Adams, Josie Bergstrom-Te Slaa, Haylee Hardin and Frederique Sgarbossa - to the postseason as individual competitors.

Miles Greig's recruiting prowess paid dividends after her first full season in the cycle, as both Hardin and Sgarbossa showed out in their first collegiate season. Miles Greig also played a prominent role in senior Josie Bergstrom-Te Slaa's improvement from 2024 to 2025, as the one-time event specialist blossomed into an all-around competitor for ISU and qualified for the postseason.

Coach Miles Greig has continued to help build the ISU gymnastics brand, as the Cyclones pulled in the largest gymnastics crowd in program history, as the 2025 Beauty and the Beast competition against Simpson drew 9,470 fans.

2024
In her first season as a collegiate coach, Miles Greig orchestrated the greatest improvement among all NCAA gymnastics programs, as the Cyclones built upon their final Road to Nationals ranking in 2023 (44), climbing up to a 2024 final ranking of 29 - a 15-spot improvement. Coach Greig took Iowa State back to the postseason in 2024, as ISU qualified for the the Gainesville Regional. There, in Gainesville, the Cyclones posted defeated No. 30 Clemson in the opening round before tallying their second-highest postseason score ever with a 196.575 in the second round.

Coach Miles Greig led ISU to a 10-18 (2-2 Big 12) record in her first season. ISU's ten wins are tied for the school's most since 2018. In her first ever collegiate meet, Miles Greig led the Cyclones to their highest season-opening score (195.825) since 2004. A few weeks later, against BYU, Iowa State earned a 196.900 score – a season best. The 196.900 slots in as the 19th-highest meet score in program history and also the highest home score since March 17 of 2006.

Her and her staff brought about an exciting display of gymnastics, as the team drew its largest gymnastics-only home crowd ever during the Cy-Hawk meet, as 4,797 fans piled into Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones recorded eight 196-plus scores on the year after earning just one in 2023. ISU saw its athletes achieve 9.9 or higher scores 32 times this season. That's the ninth most in a single season in program history. Overall, ISU had nine such scores on beam, five on vault, three on bars and 15 on floor.

About Coach Greig
Miles Greig won 20 individual postseason titles during her standout collegiate career at the University of Alabama (2003-06) and was selected the sport's 2006 Honda Award winner (national gymnast of the year) after winning her third national vault title as a senior. She became just the second gymnast in NCAA history, and first in more than 20 years, to win three career titles on vault. In addition to capturing NCAA vault crowns in 2003, 2004 and 2006, Miles Greig shared the 2004 national championship on floor exercise.

A 12-time first-team All-American and two-time team captain for Coach Sarah Patterson's Crimson Tide, Miles Greig won four NCAA titles, six SEC crowns and 10 NCAA Regional championships during her storied career. She helped Alabama to runner-up team finishes at the 2003 and 2005 NCAA Championships, third-place showings in both 2004 and 2006, as well as three NCAA regional team crowns and the 2003 SEC championship.

While at Alabama, Miles Greig recorded 11 perfect 10.0 ratings across her four-year career. She earned four 10.0 ratings as a freshman with three coming on the vault and the other on floor exercise. As a sophomore, Miles Greig earned three perfect tens with two coming on the vault and the third on floor exercise. Her final four perfect 10.0 scores came during her junior year. Three of the marks came again on vault with the fourth on floor exercise. Miles Greig’s perfect scores always came out when the stakes were the highest. Six of her 11 10.0s came during the postseason, with three being earned during the Super Six.

The San Antonio, Texas, native earned a bronze medal as a member of the U.S. women's artistic gymnastics team at the 2001 World Gymnastics Championships. She competed as a member of the U.S. women's team from 1997-2001, and was on the U.S. Senior National team from 2001-2003. Miles Greig led the USA National team to a gold medal at the 2002 Spring Cup, winning individual gold medals in the all-around and balance beam to go along with silver medals on floor exercise and vault.

An advertising major with a minor in Psychology who earned her bachelor of arts degree in Communications and Information Sciences from Alabama in 2006, Miles Greig was selected to the XXXI as a senior, which honors 31 women from the entire University student body.

After ending her collegiate gymnastics career, Miles Greig entered the automobile finance industry, first at the dealer level for five years before joining JPMorgan Chase Bank's auto finance division in 2013. Despite her success in the business world, she stayed connected to the sport she so dearly loves by serving as choreographer to optional and elite level gymnasts, while also working as an analyst for the ESPN family of networks. In fact, she served as a member of the ESPN/ABC broadcast crew for the 2023 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships.

Personal
Ashley and her husband, Orestes, have been married for ten years and relocated to Central Iowa from Huntsville, Ala.