Kara Eaker was born on November 7,2002 and is an American artistic gymnast.
27 Facts About Kara Eaker
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Kara Eaker was a member of the American teams that won gold at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships, the 2019 Pan American Games, and the 2018 Pan American Championships.
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Kara Eaker was an alternate for the 2020 Olympic team.
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Kara Eaker was adopted by her family in 2003 and has since resided with them in Missouri.
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Kara Eaker later competed at the 2017 National Championships, where she placed first on balance beam, third in the all-around, fourth on floor exercise, and fifth on uneven bars.
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Kara Eaker was then named to the Junior National Team.
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Kara Eaker competed at the American Classic, where she placed first on balance beam, second on floor exercise, and fourth in the all-around.
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At the National Championships Kara Eaker finished seventh in the all-around, second on balance beam behind Simone Biles, fifth on floor exercise, and ninth on uneven bars.
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Kara Eaker contributed 14.333, the highest beam score of the night from any competitor, towards the USA's team total.
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In February, Kara Eaker was named to the team to compete at the 2019 International Gymnix in Montreal alongside Alyona Shchennikova, Sloane Blakely, and Aleah Finnegan.
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In June, after the conclusion of the American Classic, Kara Eaker was named as one of the eight athletes being considered for the team to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games along with Sloane Blakely, Aleah Finnegan, Morgan Hurd, Shilese Jones, Sunisa Lee, Riley McCusker, and Leanne Wong.
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At the 2019 GK US Classic, Kara Eaker placed fourth in the all-around behind Simone Biles, McCusker, and Grace McCallum.
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Kara Eaker placed first on balance beam and fourth on floor exercise behind Biles, McCallum, and Jade Carey.
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At the Pan American Games Kara Eaker competed on all four events, contributing scores on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise towards the team's gold-medal-winning performance.
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Kara Eaker placed sixth on uneven bars but did not advance to the final due to teammates McCusker and Wong scoring higher.
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At the 2019 US National Championships, Kara Eaker competed all four events on the first day of competition but fell off the balance beam and ended the night in eleventh place.
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Kara Eaker placed third on bars behind Lee and Leanne Wong, first on beam, and third on floor behind Biles and Lee.
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Kara Eaker's updated score instead placed her as the first reserve for the beam final.
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Kara Eaker tied with Chen Yile of China for the third highest beam score in the final behind teammate Biles and first-year Chinese competitor Li Shijia.
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Kara Eaker later pulled out of the balance beam final, allowing Eaker to replace her as first reserve.
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Kara Eaker placed fifth in the all-around with a score of 52.700 and placed third on balance beam behind Sunisa Lee and Skye Blakely.
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At the National Championships, Kara Eaker finished tenth in the all-around and fifth on balance beam.
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At the Olympic Trials, Kara Eaker finished seventh in the all-around and second on balance beam.
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Kara Eaker was selected as an alternate for the Olympic team.
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On October 20,2023, Kara Eaker, who was 20 years of age, announced via Instagram her retirement from the sport of gymnastics and her withdrawal as a student from the University of Utah, where she had been coached by Tom Farden, citing verbal and emotional abuse from a coach and lack of support from the administration.
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Kara Eaker cited that the abuse often happened in individual coach-athlete meetings, in which she would be isolated in a closed-door office with an overpowering coach, while he used "condescending, sarcastic and manipulative" tactics.
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Furthermore, Kara Eaker stated that the University of Utah administration "completely dismissed" her when she attempted to report the abuse.