Courtney McCool
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| Full name | Courtney Lynn McCool-Griffeth | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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| Born | April 1, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Kansas City, Missouri | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Great American Gymnastics Express | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Georgia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Suzanne Yoculan (3 years), Jay Clark (1 year) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Jay Clark (3 years), Julie Clark (1 year) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Courtney Lynn McCool-Griffeth (born April 1, 1988, in Kansas City, Missouri) is a retired American artistic gymnast who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was coached by Al and Armine Fong of Great American Gymnastic Express.
From 2007–2010, McCool competed for the University of Georgia. In that time, the team won three NCAA national titles.
McCool was the runner-up in the junior division of the 2003 National Championships and won a silver medal on vault at the 2003 Pan American Games. The following year, her first as a senior international elite, she was the runner-up at the American Cup and the all-around champion at the Olympic Test Event in Athens. She was the only gymnast at the Test Event to qualify for all four event finals, and she won a silver medal on vault and bronze on the uneven bars. She then placed fourth in the all-around at the National Championships and second at the Olympic Trials, earning a spot on the Olympic team.
At the Olympics, McCool competed all four events in the qualification round, but faltered on beam and floor and was excluded from the team finals lineup. The United States team won the silver medal behind Romania.
After the Olympics, McCool joined the T.J. Maxx Tour of Olympic Champions, a nationwide gymnastics exhibition tour. However, after finding out that the tour would not be stopping in her hometown, Kansas City, she joined the Rock 'N Roll Gymnastics Challenge, a rival tour, for its Kansas City show. T.J. Maxx officials said they had not given McCool permission to do this, and dropped her from the rest of the tour.
Robert Colarossi, the CEO of USA Gymnastics, issued a statement criticizing McCool's actions: "In an apparent belief that our Tour would not include a stop in Kansas City, but without first seeking our approval, Courtney committed to participate in the Kansas City stop of the Rock-N-Roll Gymnastics Tour," he wrote. "When we were made aware of this fact, we informed Courtney and her parents that we had added a Kansas City stop and that her performance in the Rock-N-Roll Tour would present a conflict with her obligations to our Tour, and a breach of her agreement with us. Being fully apprised of the consequences of that breach, Courtney made her decision to perform." Weeks later, in January 2005, Colarassi resigned as CEO.
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