Stephanie Louise Rae Moorhouse was born on 20 January 1987 and is an Australian retired artistic gymnast.
26 Facts About Stephanie Moorhouse
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Stephanie Moorhouse won gold with the Australian team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games while completing year 10 and was part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2003 World Championships.
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Stephanie Moorhouse went on to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens while finishing off her VCE.
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Stephanie Moorhouse has an older brother Nathan who, in his youth, performed recreational gymnastics.
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Stephanie Moorhouse thought it "looked fun" and received parental permission to begin gymnastics in 1991 at the age of four.
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Stephanie Moorhouse attended Methodist Ladies' College and was a part of the MLC Victorian Gymnastics Club, Melbourne.
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Stephanie Moorhouse enrolled in La Trobe University in 2006 and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Business: Sport and Leisure Management.
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Stephanie Moorhouse has had a number of coaches over the duration of her career, including: Ross Bouskill, Katie Watts, Tracey Penaluna and Misha Barabach.
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Similarly, Stephanie Moorhouse was entered under the junior division, where she won a single gold medal in the team competition and a single bronze medal in the VT.
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Stephanie Moorhouse was entered under the junior division earning a single silver medal in the team competition.
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Stephanie Moorhouse ranked 6th, 4th, 4th, 7th and 9th in the AA, VT, UB, BB and FX respectively.
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Stephanie Moorhouse won a single silver medal in the team component at ACGA.
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Stephanie Moorhouse ranked 9th, 5th, 9th, 9th and 12th in the AA, VT, UB, BB, and FX respectively.
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Stephanie Moorhouse won a single silver medal in the team component in the junior division, a single bronze medal in the VT and UB and ranked 6th in the AA.
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At the AYOF, Stephanie Moorhouse won three gold medals in the UB, BB, and FX components.
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Stephanie Moorhouse won two silver medals for the team and AA criteria but did not qualify for VT.
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Stephanie Moorhouse ranked 6th and 5th in the AA and BB respectively but did not qualify for VT and UB.
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Stephanie Moorhouse attained 10th rank in the AA and a silver medal for the BB but did not qualify for the other components.
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Stephanie Moorhouse went on to compete at the Parkettes Invitational held in the US, attaining 5th rank in the AA and winning two bronze medals in the VT and FX.
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Stephanie Moorhouse competed in the Netherlands winning a silver in the team component and ranking 6th and 4th places in the UB and BB respectively.
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Stephanie Moorhouse competed in Anaheim, California and ranked 163rd in the AA but walked away with a bronze in the team component.
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Stephanie Moorhouse ranked 4th in the FX but did not qualify for the VT or UB.
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Stephanie Moorhouse retired from competitive artistic gymnastics in the following year at the age of 18.
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Stephanie Moorhouse made a brief gymnastics cameo appearance in, "Athens 2004: Games of the XXVIII Olympiad" and the Hollywood teen-comedy drama, "Stick it".
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Stephanie Moorhouse described her experience as, "just as nerve racking as performing in the actual event".
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On 2 January 2020, Stephanie Moorhouse gave birth to son William Walker Stainforth at St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne.