Kyla Ross
Kyla Ross was born in Hawaii, the oldest of three children in the family. Ross, at the age of fifteen, is the youngest American gymnast heading to London to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Along with her childhood friend, McKayla Maroney both competed as part of the “Fierce Five” on Team USA, bringing back a gold medal in the team event. She later started going to school at UCLA, where she continued with gymnastics and competed on their collegiate team. The 11th NCAA gymnast to achieve a perfect score in 2019, she became only the second person with the distinction of earning excellent marks in a competition a week later. Ross’s role model is former Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller. She believes that Miller is a powerful woman who has faced personal hardships but continued to stay involved in the gymnastics world.
Kyla Ross
Jordyn Wieber
Jordyn Wieber, a Michigan native, became the first Michigan girl to join the US Olympic Women’s Gymnastics team. Wieber, at the age of 3 three, was taken by her parents to a gymnastics tutor. At the age of seven, she joined the 2002 National Top 7-8-year-old Diamond Team. At age 8, Wieber participated in the Early State Championships, where she garnered bars, vault, beam, and all-around. Early in 2004, Weiber joined Michigan State Championship, where she competed with an all-around position. In the mid of 2011, Weiber joined the American Cup, where she won against an artist gymnast, Aliya Mustafina. She earned a gold medal in London at the 2012 Games, which became all the more impressive once she revealed a developed stress fracture that she soldiered through during the team event. Wieber retired from professional gymnastics in 2015 but couldn’t be kept from the sport when in April 2019, during her senior year of college at the University of Arkansas, she became the first Olympic champion to take on the coaching job for the Arizona Razorbacks.
Jordyn Wieber