If you are in the Fort Worth, Texas area January 25th – 27th 2013, McKayla will be at the Metroplex Challenge for the Women’s NCAA meet and will be signing autographs at the Gymnast Party.

For the latest information on the event please visit http://metroplexchallenge.com

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Stephen Colbert’s take on McKayla’s vault.

A Gold Medal vault, 54 years apart. Image Source: imgur.com

Team USA

During the final, McKayla contributed a score of 16.233 for Team USA, the highest in the competition, and helped the United States achieve Olympic Gold. Her execution score of 9.733 was the highest at the Olympics under the new scoring system.

The rest of the team, dubbed the Fab Five, gave a superstar performance, earning the USA their first Olympic gymnastic team Gold medal since 1996. “I just wanted them to do so well and I’m just so proud of them. I was screaming and yelling,” says McKayla about the event.

McKayla’s long time friend and team mate Kyla Ross contributed scores of 14.933 on uneven bars and 15.133 on balance beam for the US team.toward the American team’s gold medal finish. Regarding the team’s performance, Kyla said “We are all really proud of each other. It was really fun watching floor. McKayla and I were together cheering as loud as we could. We were screaming so loud.”

Vault Finals

With a nearly flawless Amanar, McKayla’s first vault scored 15.866, and a score of 9.666 for execution. The Mustafina vault was off by a milimeter, resulting in a slip at the finale and a score of 14.3. McKayla’s performance, despite slipping, was still amazing enough to earn a silver medal, if only by a hair. “The silver medal is actually pretty sick!!” says McKayla, still proud of her attempt, “everything happens for a reason!!” With this year’s events behind her, McKayla has only the future to look forward to.

McKayla’s Olympic stay isn’t over yet though, as she is still cheering her teammates on in the Women’s Uneven Bars, Women’s Balance Beam, and Women’s Floor Exercise.

2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin weighs in on McKayla’s first Olympic experience: “She is still an Olympic Champion… and an Olympic Champion is for life.”

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“This is the best feeling – it’s just so amazing. I’m in shock right now. I think this will be the happiest I’ll ever be in my life. It’s the absolute best feeling knowing that I trained so hard for this and all the hard things that I have accomplished and now to be on this team. These girls are my best friends. My team mate Kyla Ross, we have been best friends since we were six years old so it’s just absolutely amazing to be going to the Olympics.”

After a score of 15.800 in the Women’s Qualification, McKayla is officially in the Vault final.

*Update*

Team USA has claimed the gold for gymnastics, with McKayla contributing a vault score of 16.233 toward the team’s score, the highest in the competition. “We definitely started the competition with a bang.”

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World renowned for her amazing vaulting skills, McKayla is a Senior International Elite gymnast based out of California. She is currently competing for Team USA in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

After a promising start at age thirteen in 2009 at the Visa Championships and again in 2010 at the CoverGirl Classic, she scored her first Medal in August of 2010 at the Visa Championships.

In 2011, she rocketed to fame in her performance at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, Visa Championships, and World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

Now, in 2012 her superstar performances at the Olympic Trials and other events have led her to London.

Despite a recent injury, McKayla is still competing and ready to go for gold.

To learn more about McKayla, visit her Biography and Media section.

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