14 Facts About Kristen Maloney

Kristen Ann Maloney was born on March 10,1981 and is a retired gymnast from Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Kristen Maloney won bronze in the team event at the 2000 Olympic Games.

Kristen Maloney competed for the University of California, Los Angeles in the NCAA from 2001 until 2005.

Kristen Maloney was born on March 10,1981, in Hackettstown, New Jersey and attended Pen Argyl Area High School in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

Kristen Maloney trained at Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania and was a consistent member of the US national gymnastics team from 1993 to 2000.

Kristen Maloney competed in a variety of minor international events as a junior elite and, as a senior, qualified for the 1996 Olympic Trials.

Kristen Maloney finished fourteenth at the Trials in the shadow of the "Magnificent Seven," but she became one of the most prominent American gymnasts from 1997 to 2000.

Kristen Maloney participated in the 1997 and 1999 World Championships, earned a gold medal on the balance beam at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, and won the all-around at the 1998 Pacific Alliance Championships.

Kristen Maloney ended her elite career at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where the American team won the bronze medal after a 2010 investigation by the International Gymnastics Federation disqualified the original bronze medalist, China, for falsifying a gymnast's age.

Kristen Maloney earned All-American honors and scored perfect tens at several meets.

Kristen Maloney was plagued by persistent injuries throughout her elite and collegiate careers.

Kristen Maloney graduated from UCLA in 2005 and worked as a gymnastics coach in California.

Kristen Maloney has been an assistant gymnastics coach at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa since July 2011.

Kristen Maloney has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points, a toe-on Shaposhnikova on the uneven bars.