Haley Garelick is in her fourth year as the Sharks Acrobatics and Tumbling head coach, being appointed on July 31, 2017.
Prior to the 2020 season abruptly ending, Garelick was leading HPU to a 1-3 record against a top-ranked schedule. In Garelick’s third season of coaching, HPU beat the No. 5 Gannon at home in The Shark Tank.
HPU battled to a 1-6 record against an intense schedule in 2019, and earned a No. 6 national ranking to qualify for the NCATA Championships. While the Sharks fell in the team event quarterfinals, the Sharks won a two national event titles – The Five-Element Acro and the Seven-Element Acro, with Makayla Garland named to the All-America team.
Garelick led HPU to a 2-6 record against a rugged schedule in 2018, but was ranked seventh heading into the post season and competed in the NCATA Quarterfinals. While the Sharks fell in the team competition, she led the Sharks to a national title in the Six-Element Acro individual event, to go with silvers in the Aerial Pass and Inversion Pyramid and a bronze in the Five-Element Acro. She also coached a pair of All-Americans in her first season, with senior Daisha Paulino and sophomore Makayla Garland gathering the honors.
Garelick came to HPU after spending the 2016-17 season as an assistant at Oregon following two seasons of competing for the Ducks starting in 2014. As an assistant she helped coach two All-Americans as Oregon finished as the national team runner-up at the 2017 NCATA Championships.
She started her career as a student-athlete at Gannon (Pa.), competing in its inaugural season as a freshman and winning an Event National Title in seven-element acro for GU at the 2014 NCATA Finals as a sophomore.
Garelick transferred to Oregon for her junior and senior seasons where she competed in numerous heats including compulsory toss, compulsory pyramid, acro heat 5, pyramid heat 3, and the team event. She qualified for NCATA Event Finals in acro heat 5 and pyramid heat 3 in 2016. She helped the Ducks finish as national runners-up in 2015 and 2016.
Garelick received her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2016 from Oregon and added a master’s degree in coaching & athletic administration from Concordia Irvine in 2018.
A native of Valencia, Calif., Garelick is the daughter of David and Debbie Garelick. She was the captain of her cheer team at Hart High School and competed for the California Flyers All-Stars until 2010.
Garelick is the second head coach for Acro-Tumbling at HPU.
