Hayley Piglowski, formerly Nejman, enters her fourth year as the first-ever head coach of the inaugural Acrobatics & Tumbling program.
During the first season of competition, Piglowski helped the program to six individual heat victories including four during the Aerial Pass coming against No. 10 King, No. 9 Limestone, Coker, and Emmanuel. Piglowski guided Bre’ona Coakley and Kailee Greene to the program’s first All-Conference selections with Second Team honors.
The 2020-21 inaugural season for Acrobatics & Tumbling at Chowan, would be put on hold due to COVID-19. Piglowski spent the 2019-20 year recruiting for the inaugural season.
Hayley comes to Chowan following a season at Urbana University as an assistant Acrobatics & Tumbling coach in the program’s first-ever season. Nejman helped Sarah Calk to a third place finish at the Inaugural Mountain East Conference Championship.
While in the Urbana, Ohio area, Nejman was an assistant gymnastics coach at Beavercreek High in Dayton, Ohio.
Priot to coaching, Nejman was a four-year member of the Gannon Acrobatics & Tumbling program from 2014-2018. While competing as a student-athlete, Hayley helped at the Lakettes and Lakers Gymnastics Academy and Long’s School of Dane in Erie, Pa.
Nejman produced Gannon’s first National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Associations (NCATA) All-American in 2017. That same season, Hayley would garnered ECAC All-Conference honors, ECAC Athlete of the week, and placed third in Tumbling Trio Heat at NCATA Nationals. Hayley helped secure a NCATA National Championship in the Inversion Pyramid event in 2018. She would be named ECAC All-Conference Honorable Mention in 2018.
Hayley earned a bachelor’s degree in Sports and Exercise Science from Gannon in 2018.
