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Cali Hager

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Assistant Coach
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Cali Hager finished her second season as an assistant coach with women's gymnastics in 2025, helping primarily with uneven bars and floor.

Hager was instrumental in the Wolverines ranking in the top 20 in all four events in the 2025 season, while helping Carly Bauman to a regional championship on the uneven bars.

Prior to Michigan spent time as a graduate student coach at Eastern Michigan as well as a Student-Athlete Support Services graduate assistant. She also spent five years as a gymnast at EMU as she helped lead the team to a Mid-American Conference Championship in 2021.

As a graduate student coach at Eastern, Hager helped coach all four events as well as assisting to create individualized practice assignments on each event. She also assisted in creating the team’s conditioning regiment, working with athletes on the road with academic responsibilities and organizing and facilitating team community service projects.

Hager also worked with student-athlete support services, where she was the academic counselor for women’s gymnastics, women’s tennis and football. In her role, Harden mentored student-athletes through helping create career development programs, assisted with tutoring, grade checks and semester schedules, served as the administrator of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and developed and maintained budgets for award shows. She also organized resume and career readiness workshops for student-athletes and worked with the athletic department to create development opportunities.

She has coached at Gym America Gymnastics as well as spent time as a coach at both Eastern Michigan and Michigan summer camps.

During her time as a student-athlete, Hager was the community service chair for SAAC, was the vice president and captain for Athletes in Action, participated in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee and was a participant in both the NCAA Career in Sports Forum and The Program Seminar. Hager was awarded with the Go Teach Scholarship Presented by Dr. Pepper and the College Football Playoff Foundation for her pursual of a career in teaching or coaching.

Hager graduated with her undergraduate degree in general studies with a concentration in Early Childhood Development, Education Fundamentals and Liberal Studies from Eastern Michigan before going on to earn her Masters in Educational Leadership, Higher Education/Student Affairs degree in 2023.