Ashton Locklear
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| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
January 13, 1998 Lumberton, North Carolina |
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| Residence | Hamlet, North Carolina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5'1" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2014 - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Everest Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Qi Han, Yiwen Chen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ashton Locklear (born January 13, 1998) is an American artistic gymnast from North Carolina. She was a member of the gold-medal-winning United States team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and was the national champion on the uneven bars in 2014 and 2016. Ashton is recognized for her phenomenal routines on bars and used her skill to solidify a spot as an alternate for the 2016 Summer Olympics after a tough battle with fellow gymnast Madison Kocian at the 2016 Olympic Trials.
Locklear was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, to Carrie and Terry Locklear. She has an older sister, Angelia, who is also a gymnast.
Locklear was homeschooled until 11th grade. She is Native American, a member of the Lumbee Tribe.
At a young age, Locklear watched her older sister's gymnastics lessons and began imitating her. She also cited watching the 2000 Olympics on television as an inspiration to begin competing. She began her gymnastics career in trampolining, but later switched to artistic gymnastics.
Locklear's first championship was a state-level trampoline and tumbling title she earned at age 5. After that, she went to KPAC gym in Lake Norman (owned by Kristy Phillips) for a while. When she was 11, she began training at Everest Gymnastics in Huntersville, North Carolina, with coaches Qi Han (a former member of the Chinese men's national team and a graduate of Beijing Sports University) and his wife, Yiwen Chen. Because of the distance between Huntersville and Locklear's hometown of Hamlet, her family maintains a second household near the gym.
Locklear suffered a stress fracture in her back in 2013, which limited her to conditioning for approximately four months and forced her to stop competing on the floor exercise and vault.
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