Cliff Gauthier started his tenure as the program's first full-time varsity coach prior to the 1974 season and retired 43 years later as one of the nation's most respected coaches in the sport.  Gauthier's impressive résumé includes 856 career victories, 13 USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Team Championships, four Eastern College Athletic Conference titles and 15 College Gymnastics Association Collegiate Coach of the Year awards.

Complete bios for each inductee can be found by clicking the links below.
John Daly, Head Coach, Women's Soccer (1987 - 2017)
Jonathan Grimes'11, Football
Mary Pat Kurtz '86, Field Hockey/Lacrosse
Christo Landry '08, Men's XC / T&F
Jimmye Laycock '70, Head Coach, Football (1980 – 2018)
Katie Radloff '10, Swimming
Dr. Alex Sleeker '97, Men's Golf
Katarina Zoricic '09, Women's Tennis
2009 Men's Cross Country Team

Gauthier will be inducted alongside fellow Tribe coaching icons, Jimmye Laycock and John Daly in a ceremony that will be held in the spring of 2025.  Details of the event will be forthcoming.

While Gauthier's accomplishments are many, perhaps his greatest legacy will be the tremendous impact he has had on the lives of generations of Tribe gymnasts.

In addition to the team's collective success, Tribe gymnasts have thrived individually under Gauthier's tutelage and combined to earn 216 USA Gymnastics Collegiate All-America awards, more than any other university since the inception of the awards in 1990. Additionally, the program has produced two NCAA National Champions, two NCAA National Runners-Up, 10 NCAA All-America honors, seven Nissen-Emery Award Finalists and 43 USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Event Champions.

Equally, if not more, impressive than the program's accomplishments in the gym is the tremendous success achieved by Tribe gymnasts in the classroom. Gauthier's teams have combined to win a record eight College Gymnastics Association National Academic Team Titles and placed second an additional six times. Additionally, W&M has finished third three times. Highlighting the eight titles was the 2014 squad that posted the highest recorded grade point average (3.622) since the inception of the team award in 1991.

At the time of his retirement, the Tribe gymnasts also led the nation with more individual All-America Scholar-Athlete honors than any other men's gymnastics program, as 49 W&M gymnasts have combined to earn 152 All-American Scholar-Athlete honors. Additionally, a pair of former standouts were honored as NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winners.

A College Gymnastics Association Honor Coach Award recipient, Gauthier has also been recognized by W&M with some of the university's most prestigious distinctions. In 2004, he garnered the Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching at W&M and he was honored as an Honorary Alumnus in 2014.

Volunteer service has also been a hallmark of Gauthier's program through the years, and Tribe gymnasts have significantly impacted the Williamsburg community in numerous ways. Projects included volunteering with the local kids' gymnastics program, conducting the Williamsburg awareness and fundraising walk for the National Eating Disorders Association, and collecting food and goods for the annual canned food drive that totaled more than 20,000 pounds of goods since 2007.