Georgia announced Friday the hiring of Oleksii Koltakov and Marissa King as assistant coaches, just over a week after the hiring of co-head coaches Cécile Canqueteau-Landi and Ryan Roberts.
Both Koltakov and King, who are married, both spent the past two seasons at Nebraska while Koltakov also worked with Roberts at Alabama prior to that. The Ukraine native is a strong technical vault and floor coach, according to Roberts, and was named WCGA Co-Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 2023. At Alabama, he helped the team to the 2021 SEC championship title, 2022 SEC runner-up, and 2022 NCAA finals. As a gymnast, he competed for Ukraine at the 2009 European Championships and 2011 World Championships.
“I worked with Oleksii when I coached at the University of Alabama, the year we won SECs, and we worked very well together,” Roberts said. “He’s a brilliant technician. When we departed Alabama, I had a feeling that wasn’t the last time we would work together, but I didn’t know it would be in such an amazing context as this.”
King, who competed in college for Florida from 2010 to 2013, represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. While in Gainesville, she won the 2011 NCAA vault title, earned 11 All-America honors, and led the Gators to three SEC…
