Laurie Hernandez's Life And Accomplishments

Simone Biles is not only a big daredevil with all her tricks but also has a weakness, Biles HATES bee’s. In fact, in her flowers at the Rio olympics there was a bee in her flowers she dropped the flowers and ran off the podium and backed off until the bee flew away. Simone Biles is also the shortest out of 555 gymnasts competing in Rio. (She is 4-feet-9) Biles loves German shepard and recently lost one of her shepherds. Overall Simone Biles is almost an unbeatable

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

She knows she's going to win the gold, she can just feel it. Mary Lou was battling with Ecaterina Szabo, they were both neck and neck. It was Mary Lou's last performance, the vault. She charged at the springboard at full speed and did her trick. She landed flawlessly, scoring a perfect 10. She had beaten Ecaterina Szabo by 0.05 of a point, winning the gold for America. In addition to the gold, Mary Lou had won two silver medals and two bronze medals.

The Latin Queen, artist Selena Quintanilla-Perez was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Marcela and Abraham Quintanilla Jr. had three children. Selena was the infant of the gang. When she was born, her older brother Abraham Quintanilla III (otherwise called AB) was 8 and her older sister, Suzette, was 4. Selena was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she started her musical career.

Sheryl Swoopes was born March 25, 1971 in Brownfield, Texas. She spent her childhood in Texas with her three brothers and her mother, Louise Swoopes. She never had a father growing up because her mother and father, got a divorce before Sheryl’s first birthday. As a child Sheryl played basketball with her three brothers and their friends. When she was a kid, her brothers never let her play basketball with them. When they did let her play, they went too easy on her. Once she showed improvement

Brianna Scurry a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, goalkeeper for the USA women’s soccer team. “It was the crowning moment of her career” stated by Washington Post, “a shootout save in the 1999 World Cup Final against China- was a dramatic, across the goal dive memorialized on sports pages around the world. Surry Yelled and fist pumped but she didn’t really smile”. (Dewey, 2013)

Gabrielle was a member of the U.S. team that won the gold medal in the team finals at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the 2012 Olympic Trials, which took place in San Jose, California, and was selected to the national team that will represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,

Another admirable quality of Marissa’s is her extreme courage. When she was three years old she volunteered to go first on the balance beam in her gymnastics class. When the rest of her peers cowered in fear, Marissa rose to occasion and gracefully walked across the beam suspended two inches off the ground. Inspired by Marissa’s courage the rest of the gymnastics class crossed the beam. It was Marissa’s courage that allowed her to lead her fellow gymnasts to the other side of the

Here are a few people who brought home a team gold metal: Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber. By 2012 gabby is 16years old and has shown herself that she is a champion. She was a very hot topic on social media for a while. She was featured on sports magazines, cereal boxes. She was just a hot topic at the time that everyone’s attention was all on her.

The Fierce Five was the gymnastics team that won the gold medal in the 2012, Summer Olympics in London. The members of the team were all between the ages of 15 and 18. They were all very close

Simone biles had a very tough childhood. She and her siblings were put up for adoption at a very young age. Simone had always relied on her brothers to take care of her when she couldn't sleep or needed help. Finally, simones grandparent decided to adopt them. Simeone loved her grandparents very much. Simone loved that they had a huge trampoline that she could spend hours and hours flipping on. One day at daycare something changed her whole entire life, they were supposed to take a fieldtrip to farm but it unexpectedly started raining. The only place to go was a gymnastics gym. One boy said: ¨bet you can do a better flip than me!¨

Their was not a lot of sports in high school for girl. She was in track and ice skated. She was a very good ice skater, but not so much a track person. She attend college at Northern State University in South Dakota. When she was in college she was a maid at

Ever since she started she was determined to master a very specific jump – the axel. That single, one and a half rotation, jump is what she has been working toward for years, along with other elements. “That was

To start out with, as you know Lillie was REALLY flexible. She has done gymnastics for a very long time, she has done dance for a little bit but not much. As a baby she was more flexible than any other ordinary baby. She was the most flexible human being in the world. She also had a little sister named Emma. Emma was younger by 2 years. She was into gymnastics as well.

“ A gymnast’s career is pretty short. Most of them will peak at 15 or 16. When I get through with this, I have the rest of my life to do other things.