Robert Ladanyi

Robert Ladanyi (pronounced lad-an-knee) joined the women's gymnastics staff as an assistant coach in May of 2019. Ladanyi will oversee the vault and floor, while also strength and conditioning. 

In 2021, Ladanyi helped the Huskers to numerous individual honors. Earning two spots on the All-Championships team, Ladanyi helped Kaitlyn Higgins and Anika Dujakovich to these honors at the Big Ten Championships. Ladanyi finished the season at the NCAA Athens Regional where there were six gymnasts who competed on seven events. 

In 2020, the Huskers ranked seventh nationally in floor exercise and 13th on vault before the season ended prematurely because of COVID-19. He played a major role in Taylor Houchin earning All-America honors on vault, while she was the WCGA Region 4 Gymnast of the Year and a finalist for the AAI Award.

Ladanyi spent the two years prior as an assistant at Utah, helping the Utes to a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Semifinals last season as well as a second-place ranking vault team score, and top five uneven bars and floor exercise team scores for the 2019 season. Utah finished the year with the No. 2 vault score in the country (49.465) and produced two first-team vault All-Americans in MyKayla Skinner and MaKenna Merrell-Giles. The pair won the past two Pac-12 vault titles, including Merrell-Giles in 2018 and Skinner in 2019.

In 2018, he coached Utah’s first individual NCAA vault champion since 1992, his fourth in his 14 years of coaching gymnastics.

Prior to Utah, he spent two seasons as an assistant at Denver where he coached primarily vault and floor, helping the Pioneers to their first team qualification for the NCAA National Championships in 2017 and coached the first NCAA individual National Champion on Floor in Denver’s history. He spent a decade as an assistant at Florida coaching vault, uneven bars and floor exercise for the Gators. While at Florida, Ladanyi helped the Gators reach the NCAA National Championships all 10 years while he was on the staff, winning three National Championships during that time. Individually, he coached two national champions on bars. Throughout his tenure at Florida, he would go on to coach 43 All-Americans on vault, bars and floor.

Before coming to the United States, Ladanyi was head coach of the Romanian Junior National Team and the Romanian club team CSM. Before stepping into collegiate gymnastics, he held various coaching positions in Webster, Texas, Las Vegas and Italy.

He competed with the Romanian National Team before retiring from competition at the age of 19 due to injury. He graduated from the Romanian National School of Coaching with a degree in International High Level Gymnastics. He has two daughters, Gabby and Laila.