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Head Coach Margie Foster-Cunningham
Margie Foster-Cunningham, in her 16th year as head coach, is looking to lead her team to its fourth consecutive Atlantic 10 Conference title. Last season, the Colonials won their third consecutive conference title and featured the A-10 Performer of Year.Foster-Cunningham is no stranger to success. The Colonials finished second in the conference for six consecutive years and have appeared at the NCAA Regional Championships seven of the last eight years.
Foster-Cunningham was a five-time All-America at Penn State and led the Nittany Lions to a national championship in 1980. That year she was a finalist for the prestigious Broderick Award, given to the most outstanding collegiate gymnast.
The Gloversville, NY, native represented the United States at the 1979 World University Games where the third place U.S. team had its highest finish in the history of the Games at the time.
After graduating from Penn State in 1982, Foster-Cunningham remained in University Park to work toward her masters degree in health and physical education at the Motor Learning/Motor Control Sports Research Institute. The Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 1988 and in 1998, Foster-Cunninghams impact has been felt most in the GW record books, having coached every gymnast in GWs Top 10 for each event.
A board member on the NACGC for the past seven years and an A-10 gymnastics committee member, Foster-Cunningham also owns the Chantilly Academy of Gymnastics in Northern Virginia. She resides in Ashburn, VA, with her husband Jerry and their children Jeremiah (14), Jessica (12) and Connor (10).
Assistant Coach Barry Kistler
Assistant Coach Barry Kistler is in his third season as The George Washington University assistant coach. Kistler joined the coaching staff in the fall of 1998 after having spent the 1998 gymnastics season as the assistant womens coach at Seattle Pacific University in Washington. While at Seattle Pacific, Kistler helped lead the team to a new all-around record of 192.65 and a second-place finish at the USAG Collegiate National Championships (Division II).Prior to his work at Seattle Pacific, Kistler was the assistant womens coach at Radford University from 1996-97. Kistler helped the Radford team establish a new team all-around record of 188.1 against the University of Kentucky in 1997. Also that year, the team broke or tied all individual and team records.
Kistlers team enjoyed academic success when it finished ninth for team GPA among all womens gymnastics teams in the country and produced six NCAA Scholastic All-Americans. Kistler was a member of Radford Universitys gymnastics team from 1992-1996.
He is the school record holder in the all-around, pommel horse and parallel bars and was team captain in 1996. Kistler graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in biology.
Kistler also has coached at the Clemmers School of Gymnastics in North Carolina, Moonbeam Academy of Gymnastics in Virginia, the Falcon Gymnastics Center in Seattle and the Woodward Gymnastics Camp in Pennsylvania. Kistler resides in Burke, VA.
