Anna Li
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Li at the 2012 Secret U.S. Classic
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| Full name | Anna Li | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
September 4, 1988 Las Vegas, Nevada |
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| Residence | Aurora, Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft. 4 in. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2011–2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Legacy Elite Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Wu Jiani and Li Yuejiu | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Valorie Kondos Field | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Requiem for a Dream (2010), Inception (2012) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Li (born September 4, 1988) is an American artistic gymnast. She was an 8-time All-American gymnast while competing in the NCAA and a member of the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team that won the 2010 NCAA National Championship title. She was on the US National Team in 2011 - 2012. Her parents, Li Yuejiu and Wu Jiani were Olympic gymnasts who competed for China at the 1984 Summer Olympics and are also her coaches. She has a younger sister, Andrea, who is also a gymnast. While training as a Level 10 and Elite gymnast she attended and graduated from Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois.
Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Li started competing in gymnastics when she was six years old at Las Vegas Flyers. She trained in Nevada until her family moved to Illinois in 2002. Anna qualified to the Senior Elite level in 2004, competing the US National Championships in both 2004 and 2005 before being recruited by the UCLA Bruins. She was unable to compete for most of 2006 due to injury.
Anna joined the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team. During her time with UCLA, she won six regional titles: four uneven bars, one vault and one balance beam. She scored three perfect-10s on the uneven bars and won eight All-American honors. In 2010, she helped lead the Bruins to the NCAA Championship title. Her first competition in the NCAA was a home meet at Pauley Pavilion, where her parents had competed in the Olympics.
After finishing her four years with the Bruins, Li decided that she was not done with gymnastics. While finishing up her history degree, she trained alongside Bruins teammate, Vanessa Zamarripa, who was also returning to elite gymnastics, sometimes using the AOGC gym to train in After leaving UCLA, she returned home to train with her parents at Legacy Elite Gymnastics in Illinois. Li also made a guest appearance on the ABC Family television show, Make It Or Break It.
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