Casey (Rohrbaugh) Zacot was hired as an assistant coach with the Penn gymnastics program in December 2020. In her position, Zacot works with the Quakers' vault and bars units.
In her four seasons at Penn, Zacot has helped lead the Quakers to four consecutive Gymnastics East Conference (GEC) Regular Season and Championship team titles from 2022-25 and won back-to-back Ivy Classic titles in 2024 and 2025.
In 2025, Penn completed the "treble" for the second year in a row, winning the GEC Regular Season, GEC Championships and Ivy Classic titles. Zacot helped the Quakers earn the highest National Qualifying Score (NQS) in both events among GEC teams (48.910 on vault; 48.970 on bars). Penn’s dominance in those events extended beyond the GEC. Skyelar Kerico finished the season ranked second in NQS among Northeast Regional gymnasts on bars and placed third on vault. Jordan Barrow also finished top 10 in the Northeast Region on vault, slotting in at eighth. Under Zacot’s guidance, Kerico experienced one of the greatest seasons in Penn gymnastics history. The junior repeated as GEC Gymnast of the Year and won GEC Co-Performance of the Year for executing the first stuck 1.5 Yurchenko on vault in school history against West Virginia (3/14). She took home three GEC titles (vault, bars and all-around) and two Ivy Classic titles (bars and all-around). Kerico also set a new school and Ivy League record in the all-around with a 39.450 at the NCAA Regionals (4/3). Overall, the Quakers had a program record 17 first-team All-GEC selections in 2025 with 21 total honorees. As a team, Penn finished with its highest end-of-year ranking at No. 45.
Penn won the "treble" in Zacot's third season in University City, taking home its third straight GEC Regular Season and Championships titles, along with winning the Ivy Classic for the first time since 2020. Under Zacot’s guidance, Skyelar Kerico was named GEC Gymnast of the Year after claiming two GEC titles in beam and all-around, becoming the first Quaker since 2012 to achieve it. There were a program-record 14 first-team All-GEC selections in 2024 and 21 total, the most in program history. The Quakers finished with the best final national qualifying score (NQS) in program history with a 195.645. Penn had four Ivy Classic champions in Jordan Barrow (vault), Sara Kenefick (vault), Kerico (all-around) and Samantha Wu (beam). In addition to her several accolades, Kerico broke a 12-year-old program record for all-around score with a 39.325 at the Ivy Classic.
Under Zacot's guidance in 2023, Penn remained at the top with its second straight GEC Regular Season and Championship team title. McCaleigh Marr was named GEC Co-Specialist of the Year, while freshman Marissa Lassiter earned GEC Newcomer of the Year honors. The Quakers took a step forward on vault during the season thanks to Zacot's leadership, as Campbell Marr debuted with the unit, tying the program-record score of 9.900 at Temple on February 19. Six Quakers earned a total of nine first-team All-GEC honors while seven earned eight second-team laurels. During the Ivy Classic, McCaleigh Marr took second on uneven bars, while Penn finished as the runner-up for the second year in row. Along with Cassie Hageman, Zacot was named GEC Assistant Coach of the Year.
The 2022 season, Zacot's first with the program, was certainly successful as the Quakers won both the regular-season and Championship team titles in the inaugural season of the Gymnastic East Conference (GEC) and McCaleigh Marr was an individual qualifier on the balance beam at the NCAA Regional in Norman, Okla. The team also set a pair of program scoring records, scoring 194.775 in a dual with Ursinus on February 20 and posting its best score on the road three separate times with a 195.375 at Towson on February 13, a 196.225 at Maryland on March 13, and finally a 196.950 six days later at the GEC Championships.
Under Zacot's tutelage, Penn's vault unit re-wrote the record book with the top seven team scores in program history and eight of the top ten. The bars team, meanwhile, set the program record by scoring 49.325 at the GEC Championships and posted six of the top ten scores in program history. Individually, Ariyana Agarwala tied the program's 10-year-old record for vault score at the Maryland Quad on March 13 (9.900) while McCaleigh Marr posted the second-best score in program history in the bars six days later at the GEC Championships (9.925) to win the individual championship.
Two other individual program records were tied during the season, as Marr twice tied a 22-year-old record on the beam by scoring 9.950 at Towson on February 13 and again at the GEC Championships on March 19 while Sara Kenefick tied a 21-year-old mark on the floor exercise at the GECs (9.975) in winning that title. Overall, Penn compiled eight first-team and nine second-team honors at the inaugural Championships.
Zacot came to Penn from AJS Pancott Gymnastics, Inc. in nearby West Chester, Pa. She was a head team coach there, developing college-bound Level 9 and 10 athletes in all events and coaching levels 4 through 8 in all events. In 2019 Zacot's AJS Pancott team won the Level 10 Pennsylvania state championship, and that same year she had three Level 9 and three Level 10 national qualifiers. Zacot-coached gymnasts from AJS Pancott currently compete at Penn as well as the University of Maryland and Michigan State University.
Overall, Zacot has coached a number of college-level gymnasts during her professional coaching career.
Zacot attended Penn State University, where she was a four-year letter winner on the Nittany Lions’ gymnastics team. She was a two-time Ann Carr Award recipient for the most inspirational performance during a competition. Zacot was a three-time winner of the program’s Balance Beam Award, and her name went on the award following her graduation in May 2011.
Zacot graduated from Penn State with a degree in psychology, and she was a 2009 inductee into Spiritous Leoninus, the University’s intercollegiate athletics honor society.
