1. McKayla Rose Maroney was born on December 9,1995 and is an American former artistic gymnast.
57 Facts About McKayla Maroney
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McKayla Maroney was a member of the American women's gymnastics team, dubbed the Fierce Five, that won a gold medal in the team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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McKayla Maroney then became the first US female gymnast to defend a World Championship vault title at the 2013 World Championships.
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McKayla Rose Maroney was born in Aliso Viejo, California, on December 9,1995, the daughter of Erin and Mike Maroney.
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McKayla Maroney's father was a quarterback at Purdue University, and her mother was a figure skater.
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In 2010, McKayla Maroney left Gym-Max to train at the All Olympia Gymnastics Center.
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McKayla Maroney competed at the 2009 US Championships in Dallas, Texas, and placed 27th in the all-around.
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At the 2010 US Classic in Chicago, Illinois, McKayla Maroney placed seventh in the all-around competition with a total score of 55.650.
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McKayla Maroney then competed at the US Championships and won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Ross and Katelyn Ohashi, and she won the junior national vault title.
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McKayla Maroney was then selected to compete at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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McKayla Maroney made her senior international debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, and won the all-around competition.
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McKayla Maroney won gold medals with the American team and on the vault.
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McKayla Maroney only competed on the balance beam and the floor exercise at the US Classic, finishing sixth and fifth, respectively.
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McKayla Maroney then competed at the US Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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McKayla Maroney improved her performance on the second day to ultimately finish second to Jordyn Wieber in the all-around.
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McKayla Maroney was selected to compete at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo alongside Wieber, Sabrina Vega, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, and Alicia Sacramone.
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McKayla Maroney contributed scores on the vault and floor exercise toward the American team's gold medal win by over four points ahead of Russia.
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McKayla Maroney then won the gold medal in the vault final by more than half a point ahead of silver medalist Oksana Chusovitina.
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In preparation for the Olympic season, McKayla Maroney kept the Amanar as her first vault and upgraded her second vault to the roundoff half-on layout full.
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McKayla Maroney increased her difficulty scores on the uneven bars and balance beam.
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McKayla Maroney began the season at the City of Jesolo Trophy and won gold medals with the American team and on the vault.
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McKayla Maroney placed first on vault with a score of 16.100 and tenth on balance beam with a score of 13.800.
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McKayla Maroney then competed at the US National Championships, and after the first day of competition, she was ranked seventh in the all-around with a score of 58.700.
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McKayla Maroney was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a minor concussion and a nasal fracture.
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McKayla Maroney took a week off from training and successfully petitioned to compete at the Olympic Trials.
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McKayla Maroney ultimately placed seventh in the all-around with a two-day combined score of 117.650.
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McKayla Maroney placed first on the vault and fifth on the floor exercise.
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McKayla Maroney was chosen as a member of the team that was sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics alongside Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross, and Jordyn Wieber.
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McKayla Maroney helped the American team qualify for the team final in first place, and individually, she qualified in first place to the vault final with a score of 15.800.
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McKayla Maroney's vault received an execution average of 9.733, the highest execution score at an Olympics or World Championships under the open-ended scoring system which was introduced in 2006.
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McKayla Maroney successfully performed an Amanar for her first vault, but she fell on her second.
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The image became an Internet phenomenon sparked by a tumblr blog called "McKayla Maroney is not impressed".
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McKayla Maroney starred in a 2021 GEICO commercial playing on her "not impressed" pose.
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In September 2012, McKayla Maroney was injured during an uneven bars dismount while performing at the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions in Ontario, California.
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On September 13,2012, McKayla Maroney had two screws inserted to repair the fractured left tibia.
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McKayla Maroney wore an immobilizer to keep the leg straight until doctors determined that she was ready to resume limited walking and rebuilding range of motion.
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McKayla Maroney was cleared to return to training in January 2013.
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On January 12,2013, McKayla Maroney served as one of the judges for the Miss America pageant.
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McKayla Maroney participated in the Thirty Seconds to Mars music video "Up in the Air".
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In 2013, McKayla Maroney signed a sponsorship agreement with Adidas Gymnastics.
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In July 2013, McKayla Maroney made her return to gymnastics at the 2013 Secret US Classic, where she placed first on vault with an average score of 15.425 and third on the floor exercise with a score of 14.350, posting the highest execution score on that apparatus.
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McKayla Maroney then competed on the vault and floor exercise at the US National Championships and won gold in both events.
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On September 15, McKayla Maroney was one of four gymnasts named to the United States team for the 2013 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
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McKayla Maroney was originally put on the team to compete on the vault and floor exercise, but she was later named to compete as an all-around gymnast alongside Simone Biles and Kyla Ross after performing well during training.
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McKayla Maroney was the top qualifier for the vault final.
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Also in the qualification round, McKayla Maroney finished in sixth place on the floor exercise with the same total score as Ross.
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In March 2014, McKayla Maroney underwent arthroscopic surgery on her left knee due to issues related to her previous tibia injury.
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In 2015, McKayla Maroney shared she had been dealing with adrenal fatigue since 2013, but she had returned to training.
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On February 24,2016, the gymnastics podcast GymCastic released a 49-minute-long interview with McKayla Maroney regarding her health issues preceding and following the 2012 Olympic Games.
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McKayla Maroney shared that she had been dealing with depression and burnout.
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On October 18,2017, McKayla Maroney alleged that the USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar had repeatedly molested her, starting when she was 13 years old, until her retirement from the sport in 2016.
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On March 7,2020, McKayla Maroney released her first official single, "Wake Up Call".
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McKayla Maroney made her acting debut in the CW television series Hart of Dixie on November 20,2012.
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McKayla Maroney played Tonya, a friend of Rose in the episode "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me".
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McKayla Maroney returned for more episodes that aired in 2013.
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In December 2013, McKayla Maroney appeared on an episode of the Fox TV show Bones called "The Spark in the Park", as a gymnast named Ellie who is a suspect in the murder of a fellow gymnast.
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McKayla Maroney appeared in several GEICO television commercials in 2021.