McKayla Maroney
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Maroney during a November 2012 visit to the White House
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| Full name | McKayla Rose Maroney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December 9, 1995 Long Beach, California, United States |
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| Hometown | Laguna Niguel, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | All Olympia Gymnastics Center (AOGC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Artur Akopyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Galina Marinova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Jenny Zhang, Howie Liang | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Geza Pozsar (2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | "Those Were The Days"/"Dorogoi dlinnoyu" (2011) Yemmoo by Samvel Yervinyan (2012) |
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| Retired | February 24, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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McKayla Rose Maroney (born December 9, 1995) is an American formerartistic gymnast. She was a member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team dubbed the Fierce Five at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the team and an individual silver medal in the vault event. Maroney was also a member of the gold-winning American team at the 2011 World Championships where she won gold medals in the team and vault competitions. She defended her World title and won the gold medal on vault at the 2013 World Championships, becoming the first U.S. female gymnast to defend a World Championships vault title. A photograph of her with a "not impressed" expression, taken after winning silver in the 2012 Olympics, became an Internet meme. She decided in 2016 to no longer compete in gymnastics due to health issues.
Maroney was born in Aliso Viejo, California, to Mike and Erin Maroney, on December 9, 1995. Her father was a quarterback at Purdue University, and her mother was involved in figure skating and high school sports. She is Irish-Catholic. She has two siblings, Tarynn and Kav, and was homeschooled in order to train as an elite gymnast.
"When I was younger," Maroney said, "I would be watching Tarzan and running around on all fours. My mom was like, 'I need to put this child in gymnastics. She's crazy.' I was technically in gymnastics at the age of 2 and always felt comfortable in the gym."
When Maroney was 9 years old, she started training at Gym-Max in Costa Mesa, California. In 2012, she said, "I realized that I had a dream that I wanted to go to the Olympics and I wanted to go as far as I could go. I thought I should probably move to a new gym and start thinking about the Olympics."
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