Gabrielle Douglass Female Gymnastics

My bestest friends Megan, Allie and Kylee all were super kindhearted and cheered me on!

Laurie Hernandez was born on June 9, 2000 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her family includes parents Anthony and Wanda Hernandez, brother Marcus, and sister Jelysa. At age sixteen, standing only five foot and one hundred and seven pounds, Laurie Hernandez made the US Olympic Gymnastics team, but she couldn’t do it without the help from coaches Maggie Haney and Victoria Levine. (Laurie)

Mia Michaels was born is Coconut Grove, Florida. As the youngest of Joe Michaels' children Michaels' grew up surrounded by dance, she was taught Jazz, Tap and Ballet by her father and her sister taught her contemporary. After she had learned all she could from her family Michaels went on to train in contemporary with Miami Conservatory, Miami Performing Arts Centre, Michigan Interlochen Arts Academy and with the New World School of the arts.

Florence Joyner was born December 21, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. When she was a kid she loved competition, by age 7 she competing in track. Florence couldn’t afford college so she started working as a bank teller. Then, she later she was in UCLA in 1980, and won the NCAA 200-meter title.

Gabrielle starts her story with how she came into the world and moves to her family’s journey from living out of their Dodge Van for her first delicate year of life, to the family’s separation across Virginia towns, surviving an absent father, and undergoing the years of expensive and rigorous training that is needed for an elite gymnast to compete with the rest of the world’s athletes. From Gabrielle qualifying for special programs that helped fund her training, to her mother having to work multiple jobs in order to keep a roof over their heads, to helping the American team win Gold in the 2012 London games, it is obvious that Gabrielle has a good reason to put her faith in God. He

Gabby Douglas is true to her beliefs, and her personality shows that she is helpful to the world, and her family and she shows exceptional execution in gymnastics Gabby shows long and beautiful lines specifically in bars, floor, and beam. She is very powerful in the vault, as well. In the text, it states, “I compete for each element with great grace and strength… I will flow beautifully” (Douglas 192). This quotation supports the thesis statement because it shows how Gabby Douglas has long and beautiful lines on the uneven bars. Gabby’s only specialty is the uneven bars, but she occasionally does very well on the balance beam. Gabby Douglas can hit on beam, and when she does, it is an exceptional routine to watch. The text supports this by

Mary Lou Retton was born on January 24, 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Lois and Ronnie Retton and the youngest of five children. At the age of four, she began studying dance and acrobatics, then started gymnastics training a year later. After she started developing a great love of gymnastics as a girl, Mary Lou Retton moved to Houston, Texas, to train with the amazing Romanian coach, Bela Karolyi. Mary Lou grew

Gabby Douglas was the first African-American female gymnast in Olympic history to become the individual All-Around champion. In the 2012 Olympic Games, she won gold in the team competition and the individual competition. She is a gymnastics phenom. From the beginning of her career to where she is today, she has been a true trooper through everything. Gabrielle Douglas is an inspiration to me and many others because she overcame being homeless,moved in with a new family, and won Olympic gold in gymnastics.

Shantessa Pama (cousin) born on March 5 is a retired American elite gymnast who grew up in Kailua,Kona Hawaii. She started her education at kahakai elementary until she was about 8 years old she is now a residence of Dana Point California where she continued her education at Dana Hills High School and graduated in 2009. Shantessa quotes “I missed home a lot when I moved but there was no competition here for me I was no longer allowed to compete here and gymnastics was my passion. I wanted to turn gymnastics into my career”. Shantessa Pama was one of the only 2 female gymnast to complete a triple tuck dismount but the first to complete it at the age 13.

Mary Lou Retton was a girl from a large town with a major hobby. Mary Lou was born on January 24, 1968 in fairmont West Virginia, she had 4 sisters and brothers. Mary Lou’s parents are Louis Retton and Ronnie Retton. Louis was a homemaker (stay at home mom) and Ronnie had quite a lot of jobs that included being a security guard; business owner, a former baseball and basketball player and a coal and equipment transporter. At the age of 4 Mary Lou studied dance and acro bactics, this eventually led to her joining gymnastics. She enjoyed gymnastics so much that she practiced many times at home. One time she watched the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and practiced gymnastics at the same time at age 8, she recalls being in a split as she was watching.

She barely liked getting noticed because she always felt like she needed to be dressed up. All she wanted was to be a normal teen again, not worrying about what makeup or outfit to wear. Her favorite part was to go speak to different press. She even got to speak to Michelle Obama! In 2012 Gabby’s goal was to come back to the next Olympics, which was in 2016. She finished seventh in 2016 and now is retired from gymnastics. God is one of the most important people in her life and she strongly believes he will take her through her life

As in the next Olympics there will only be 4 members. The Final Five are America’s 3rd gymnastic team to win gold. Simone also went on and dominated the individual performances, by becoming the first woman in two decades to win back-to-back Olympic all-around and world titles. By the end, Simone Biles had earned herself 19 Olympic and World titles, making herself the most decorated American gymnast in history.

The defendant, high school gymnast Andrea Wilson, had been involved in gymnastics all her life. Since she was old enough to participate she excelled in the sport and participated in club gymnastics until she got to high school, where she would compete for not only her club team but the gymnastics team at her high school as well. Wilson planned to join the gymnastics team at the University of Ithaca in New York State following high school. She had been working on a variety of different difficult skills to prepare her for college gymnastics, including a particular skill on the uneven bars called the reverse hecht.

This project is about Gabby Douglas the Olympic gymnastics darling since 2012.The project will tell the history of Gabby Douglas and her success. This project is about how she overcame many obstacles to be who she is today.This project will show that despite race,beliefs gender or hairstyle you can do anything you set your mind to. Miss Gabrielle Douglas is the definition of what means to give it your all. I plan on following in her footsteps and being my all in everything I do.

Gabby Douglas went through many things in her childhood, starting from when she was born on December 31, 1995, in Virginia Beach, Virginia (usagym.org). It was not long from when she was born that she was diagnosed with a fatal disease called Branched Chain Ketoaciduria (Grace).