1. Alicia Marie Sacramone Quinn is a retired American artistic gymnast.
46 Facts About Alicia Sacramone
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Alicia Sacramone won a silver medal with the United States team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and is the 2005 World Champion on floor exercise and the 2010 World Champion on the vault.
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Alicia Sacramone was born in Boston on December 3,1987, to parents Fred, an orthodontist, and Gail Alicia Sacramone, a hairstylist and salon owner.
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Alicia Sacramone is of Italian descent and has an older brother, Jonathan.
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Alicia Sacramone began studying dance at the age of five and started gymnastics three years later, in 1996.
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Alicia Sacramone trained with Mihai and Silvia Brestyan at a club called Gymnastics and More, and followed them when they opened their own facility in Ashland, Massachusetts.
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Alicia Sacramone began competing at the elite level in 2002 and made the national team for the first time in 2003.
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At the 2003 National Championships, Alicia Sacramone placed 14th in the all-around, won a bronze medal on floor exercise, and placed fourth on vault, earning a spot on the national team.
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In 2004, Alicia Sacramone helped the US win a team gold medal at the Pacific Alliance Championships in Honolulu and won the individual vault title.
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Alicia Sacramone's performances caught the attention of the media, which began to mention her as a contender for the American team at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
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Alicia Sacramone injured her back and required time off to recover.
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Alicia Sacramone continued competing in late 2004 as a member of the national team and was assigned to several international meets, including the Pan American Individual Event Championships, where she won the vault and floor exercise titles.
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At the 2005 National Championships, Alicia Sacramone won the individual titles on floor and vault, scoring a 9.9 on floor, and placed third on the balance beam and fourth in the all-around.
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Alicia Sacramone was named to the American team, along with Nastia Liukin and Chellsie Memmel, for the 2005 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a gold medal on floor and placed third on vault.
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Alicia Sacramone continued to compete for the US team in 2006 and participated in the World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, where she won a silver medal with the American squad and an individual silver on the vault.
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Alicia Sacramone defended her vault and floor titles at that year's US Nationals.
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In September 2006, Alicia Sacramone enrolled in Brown University and joined the school's gymnastics team.
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Alicia Sacramone was the first female American gymnast since Kelly Garrison in the late 1980s to combine full-time university studies and NCAA competition with elite gymnastics.
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Alicia Sacramone was named ECAC Rookie of the Year and swept the Ivy League Classic, becoming the first gymnast to win the all-around and all four events, and posting the highest all-around total ever recorded at the competition.
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At the 2007 National Championships, Alicia Sacramone competed on three events, choosing to skip the uneven bars.
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Alicia Sacramone defended her title on the vault, placed second on the floor exercise and third on the balance beam.
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Alicia Sacramone posted a score on beam that would have been high enough to qualify her to the beam final.
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However, due to an International Federation of Gymnastics rule allowing only two athletes per country to participate in each event final, Alicia Sacramone was unable to compete for a beam medal, because teammates Liukin and Shawn Johnson qualified ahead of her.
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In event finals, Alicia Sacramone received a bronze medal for her vault performance and a silver on floor behind Johnson.
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Alicia Sacramone was visibly upset by her performances, and fought back tears after floor and during the flower and medal ceremonies.
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In September 2007, Alicia Sacramone announced that she was "turning pro" and signed with an agent, forfeiting her remaining NCAA eligibility.
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Alicia Sacramone remained a student at Brown, concentrated in sociology, but took the spring 2008 semester off to prepare for the Olympics.
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At the Olympics, Alicia Sacramone performed on three events in both the qualifying and team final rounds of competition.
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Individually, Alicia Sacramone placed third on vault in the preliminary round of competition and qualified to the individual final on that event.
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Alicia Sacramone placed fourth on beam in preliminaries behind Li Shanshan of China, Liukin and Johnson, but did not advance to the eight-person event finals due to the "two per country" rule.
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Alicia Sacramone's comeback was slowed after shoulder surgery earlier that year.
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On July 24,2010, Alicia Sacramone competed in the CoverGirl Classic.
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Alicia Sacramone placed first on both beam and vault, not competing on floor or bars, and was named USA Today's Athlete of the Week.
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Alicia Sacramone placed first on vault and second on beam.
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Early in 2011, Alicia Sacramone signed a deal with Under Armour to supply her with competitive apparel for domestic competitions.
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Alicia Sacramone placed second to McKayla Maroney on vault and tied with Hallie Mossett for eighth place on floor exercise.
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Alicia Sacramone placed first on vault and third on balance beam.
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At the Olympic Trials, Alicia Sacramone placed second on vault and balance beam, but was not named to the Olympic team.
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Since May 2022, Alicia Sacramone has been one of three high-performance leaders of the USA Gymnastics Elite Women's Program.
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Alicia Sacramone is one of the three people on the selection committee for the US women's artistic gymnastics team for the 2024 Olympic Games.
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Alicia Sacramone is a member of Team 24 Fitness and serves as a spokeswoman for the fitness company.
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Alicia Sacramone has discussed her intent to return to college in the media, but announced in August 2009 that she was not intending to return to Brown University.
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Alicia Sacramone appeared nude in ESPN's 2011 "Body Issue" and talked about how her body had evolved throughout her elite career and the changes in her self-perception.
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On December 15,2015, it was announced that Alicia Sacramone had been inducted as a 2016 class of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
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In 2013, Alicia Sacramone was inducted into the Louisiana Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, located at the American Italian Cultural Center.
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Alicia Sacramone announced her engagement to former Notre Dame and NFL quarterback Brady Quinn in August 2013 and they married in March 2014.