Huskers Add NCAA Champion to Women’s Gymnasium Employees – University of Nebraska

Head Coach Nicole Jones added NCAA Champion and Lincoln native Jordan (Bowers) Gamboa to her first Nebraska’s ladies’s gymnastics teaching employees on Thursday, May 7.

Gamboa, who was born and raised in Lincoln and attended Southwest High School, competed as Jordan Bowers all through her collegiate profession at Oklahoma. She was the 2025 NCAA All-Around Champion, serving to the Sooners to a few NCAA group titles throughout her keep in Norman. She received the 2025 Honda Sports Award for Women’s Gymnastics and was one among six finalists for the AAI Award. She was additionally the 2025 SEC Gymnast of the Year. She married former Oklahoma All-America males’s gymnast and 2022 NCAA All-Around bronze medalist Raydel Gamboa in June 2025, following the completion of her OU profession.

A 3-time NCAA runner-up on flooring train, she added a pair of NCAA bronze medals on uneven bars in her excellent collegiate profession beneath Coach Okay.J. Kindler at Oklahoma. Gamboa was a 28-time All-American, an eight-time NCAA Regional champion and a seven-time Big 12 Conference particular person champion.

“Jordan is a go-getter who elevates everyone around her,” Jones stated. “Her athletic accolades speak for themselves, but what truly sets her apart is the standard she’s lived and the mindset she brings every single day. She understands what it takes to win, and more importantly, how to sustain it.” I consider she might be an unimaginable bridge for our student-athletes – somebody they will relate to, be taught from, and develop alongside – whereas additionally serving as a strong connection level for recruits who wish to come to Lincoln and be a part of what we’re constructing. It’s extremely particular to deliver her again residence.”

A two-time Big 12 All-Around champion for the Sooners in 2023 and 2024, Gamboa added a Big 12 floor exercise title as a sophomore in 2023 to help OU to the Big 12 team title. As a junior in 2024, she earned three perfect 10.0 scores on her way to an incredible all-around score of 39.925 to claim her second straight individual title. She helped the Sooners post a 198.950 team score on their way to a third consecutive Big 12 championship. Her performance in 2024 earned her Big 12 Gymnast-of-the-Year honors.

“Husker Nation, I’m extraordinarily grateful for this chance to be part of this unimaginable employees and University,” Gamboa said. “Being born and raised in Lincoln, my roots run deep, and I’m keen to provide again to this program and its potential. Nebraska has persistently produced elite gymnasts, and we wish to create a tradition that retains them coming again and provides these athletes area to thrive of their sport and each side of their lives! I’m excited for what’s to come back! GBR!”

In her faculty profession, Gamboa posted 12 good 10.0 scores, together with 5 on flooring train, 4 on uneven bars and three on vault. She notched three good tens on the 2025 Washington Regional Final after producing a trio of tens on the 2024 Big 12 Championships.

Gamboa represented the United States on the 2018 Junior Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina, claiming a person all-around title to assist the U.S. group to gold. She added gold medals on flooring train and the uneven bars, whereas contributing a bronze on stability beam.

She additionally received all-around gold to assist the United States to group gold on the 2018 Pacific Rim Championships, the place she added a gold on flooring and a bronze on uneven bars.

Gamboa, who earned her bachelor’s diploma from Oklahoma in May 2026, served as a scholar coach with the Sooner ladies’s gymnastics program this previous season, whereas additionally working as a power and conditioning intern for a number of OU sports activities, together with soccer, baseball, softball, males’s and girls’s observe, volleyball, ladies’s golf and girls’s tennis. 

She beforehand gained expertise as a membership coach at Triniti Gymnastics in Lincoln in 2020-21, whereas additionally working as a camp coach and clinician at Champions Gymnastics Camp.