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1974-75 • A graduate assistant in the sports psychology department, Greg Marsden is hired to start the gymnastics team meet Title IX requirements. He is given a budget of $4,500 and a coaching stipend of $1,500

Jan. 17, 1976 • Utah scores a 97.75 to beat Cal State Long Beach (89.7) and BYU (81.05) in the program's first competition

March 1976 • The Utes complete their first year with a 10th-place showing at the AIAW Championships. "That's when we knew we were onto something," Marsden said.

April 10, 1981 • Utah wins its first national title five years after forming the program, scoring a 144.65 to edge UCLA's 144.1. It is the first of six straight titles for Marsden

March 1993 • Marsden, not one to pass up an opportunity at any publicity, accepts an invite by the Utah Arts Festival to pose on a billboard in a tutu with the slogan "What is art" as a response to the controversy generated by a poster featuring Aimee Trepanier that some thought was provocative.

March 26, 1994 • Angered by what he perceives as poor judging, Marsden pulls his team off the floor during its competition at BYU and loses 194.125-125.8 in one of his more controversial moments

April 21, 1995 • Marsden wins his last national title. Utah scored a 196.50 win while Alabama and Michigan tied for second with a score of 196.425.

July 29, 2009 • Megan Marsden, Greg's wife who spent 12 years as an assistant and 13 years as an associate coach, is named co-coach

Aug. 18, 2010 • Tom Farden is hired as Utah's assistant after spending a year at Arkansas and as an assistant coach, and as Southeast Missouri State's coach from 2004-09

Feb. 1, 2014 • Marsden becomes the sport's first 1,000-win coach with a 197.2-194.9 victory at Arizona State

March 6, 2015 • A crowd of 16,019 fans, the largest in the Huntsman Center and NCAA gymnastics history, watches Utah beat Michigan. The Utah program receives national exposure by CBS, the New York Times and other outlets

April 18, 2015 • A day after tying two-time defending champion Florida in the preliminary round of the NCAAs, Marsden's team loses the national title to the Gators by a 0.05 margin, the second-closest margin between the top two teams in the 34-year history of the NCAA Championships behind last season's tie between Florida and Oklahoma

April 20, 2015 • Marsden announces his retirement, wife Megan and 5th-year assistant Tom Farden are promoted to co-head coaches