McKayla Maroney Biography
California native McKayla Maroney is an American retired artistic gymnast. She previously served as a member of the American women’s gymnastics team dubbed the Fierce Five at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal and an individual silver medal in the vault event.
McKayla Maroney Early life
In her early years, she was watching Tarzan and running around on all fours. McKayla Maroney’s mom was like, ‘I need to put this child in gymnastics. She’s crazy.’ I was technically in gymnastics at the age of 2 and always felt comfortable in the gym.”
When Maroney was 9 years old, she started training at Gym-Max in Costa Mesa, California. McKayla Maroney realized that she had a dream to go to the Olympics and to go as far as she could go.
McKayla thought that she should probably move to a new gym and start thinking about the Olympics in 2012. In her first Olympic memory, she said, “I remember watching Carly Patterson.
She was one of my favorites. I loved her floor routine. I went to the Olympic Trials that year (2004) with Kyla [Ross]. I remember seeing the gymnasts on the floor and I loved all of their leotards.
She thought that there were so little and amazing. She also thought, how am she was going to stay this little? and she was worried about going to be really tall because my dad is 6’3″ and my mom is 5’2″, so I didn’t know which one I was going to be.”
McKayla Maroney Career
McKayla Maroney competed at the Visa Championships in Hartford, Connecticut in August 2010 placing third in the all-around competition with a two-day combined score of 113.250. In her final events, she placed the first vault by scoring 32.000, seventh on balance beam scoring 27.850, and fourth on floor scoring 28.400.
She has also competed at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico in September 2010 by contributing a vault score of 15.933, and a balance beam score of 13.866, and she has also won the floor score of14.500 towards the American team’s first-place finish.
In the final event, she scored 15.387 placings first on vault and first on floor with a score of 14.225. In 2011 she competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy winning the all-around competition with a score of 57.850.
She placed second in the all-around competition with a two-day combined score of 115.150 during the Visa Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota in August 2011. In her final events, she placed her first vault score by scoring 30.700, seventh on balance beam scoring 27.650, and fifth on floor scoring 28.150.
McKayla Maroney also competed at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan in October 2011 contributing a vault score of 16.033 and a floor score of 14.566 towards the American team’s first-place finish. She won the vault final l with a score of 15.300.
She placed her first vault with a score of 16.100 and tenth on a balance beam with a score of 13.800 during the Secret U.S. Classic in Chicago, Illinois in May 2012. During the Visa Championships competitions in St. Louis, Missouri in June 2012 she was placed seventh in the all-around with a score of 58.700 after the first day of competition.
During the second day warmups, she fell on a tumbling pass on the floor landing on her back. She was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a minor concussion and nasal fracture which led to her taking a week off from training and successfully petitioned to compete at the Olympic Trials.
She went and competed at the Olympic Trials in San Jose, California at the beginning of July placing seventh in the all-around with a two-day combined score of 117.650. In the event finals, she placed her first vault by scoring 31.700 and a fifth on floor with a score of 29.700.
She was later chosen as a member of the team that was sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics. She has competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England at the end of July of 2012.
During her training, she aggravated a previous bone break in the big toe of her right foot but she still competed on vault, though she did not take part in the floor routine as she had hoped.
McKayla Maroney contributed a vault score of 16.233 toward the American team’s first-place finish during the team final. She won a silver medal with a score of 15.083 in the vault final. In September 2012 she suffered a fractured tibia in her left leg and didn’t compete in any game.
In July 2013, McKayla Maroney returned to gymnastics, in the 2013 Secret U.S. Classic, where she gained her vault score of 15.425 (15.600 + 15.250) and a third-floor score of 14.350, posting the highest execution score on apparatus.
On 15th September 2013, she was named one of four gymnasts to the United States team for the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. She was originally put on the team to compete in only two events but was later named to compete as an all-around gymnast.
McKayla Maroney scored a total all-around score of 57.149, placing 6th overall, but due to the two-per-country rule, she could not compete in the all-around final or the floor final (14.333), or qualify as the third reserve to the uneven bars final (14.3).
McKayla Maroney Age
McKayla Maroney was born on December 9, 1995,is 23 years old as of 2019. Her ethnicity is white. Her horoscope is Sagittarius. McKayla Maroney’s full name McKayla Rose Maroney
McKayla Maroney Family
McKayla Maroney was born in Aliso Viejo, California to Erin Maroney and Mike Maroney. Her father, Mike, was a quarterback at Purdue University, and her mother was involved in figure skating and high school sports. McKayla has two siblings Tarynn Maroney and Kav Maroney.
McKayla Maroney Husband
McKayla Maroney likes to keep her personal life private hence their is no information about his/her dating life. It is therefore not known whether she is married or has any children. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
McKayla Maroney Body Measurements
Height: ft in'(Meters or cm) 5′ 4″
Weight: 46 kg Pounds(lbs) 101 lbs,
Shoe Size: Not available
Body Shape: 32-24-34 inches
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Horoscope: Sagittarius
McKayla Maroney Awards
In 2011, she won the gold-winning for representing the American team in the 2011 World Championships, and in the same year, she won the gold medals in the team and vault competitions.
She then defended her World title and won the gold medal on vault at the 2013 World Championships, and she became the first female gymnast to defend a World Championship vault title in the U.S.
McKayla Maroney was taken a photograph with a not impressed expression, taken after winning silver in the 2012 Olympics, became an Internet meme. In 2016, she retired from competitive gymnastics.
McKayla Maroney Salary
In 2013, Maroney’s salary was reported to be $500,000 dollars as a gymnast who represented the United States. McKayla Maroney earned the whopping amount of money through her profession in the gymnastic. Apart from gymnastics, she also earns a handsome amount of money through her endorsements and advertisements.
McKayla Maroney Net Worth
McKayla Maroney is a retired American artistic gymnast who has an estimated net worth of $ 4 million dollars as of 2019. She earned all her income from her recent work even though she retired.
McKayla Maroney Awards
- 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: World Vault Champion (15.300 VT)
- 2012 Olympic Games: Vault silver medalist (15.083 VT)
- 2012 Olympic Games: Team gold medalist (16.233 VT)
- 2013 Secret US Classic: First place on vault, third place on the floor (15.425 VT, 14.350 FX)
- 2013 P&G Championships: Gold medals on vault and floor (15.500 VT, 14.850 FX)
- 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: World Vault Champion (15.724 VT)[/thrive_icon_box]
McKayla Maroney Injuries
While she was still performing at the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions in Ontario, California she suffered an injury during an uneven bars dismount. An MRI revealed that she had fractured the tibia in her left leg. She had two screws inserted to repair the fractured left tibia on 13th September 2012. Maroney underwent knee surgery in March 2014.
McKayla Maroney Acting career
Maroney made her first acting debut in the CW television series Hart of Dixie on November 20, 2012. She has also played Tonya, a friend of Rose in the episode “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me”.
The appearance that turned into a recurring role, with Maroney appearing in six episodes of the series. Maroney has appeared on the episode of the Fox TV show Bones called “The Spark in the Park” (season 9), as a gymnast named Ellie who is a suspect in the murder of a fellow gymnast on December 2013,
McKayla Maroney Retire
On February 24, 2016 a candid held a 49-minute-long interview with Maroney, she revealed she was retiring from competitive gymnastics. In July 2016 during an interview, she revealed that any time she went to the gym she would hurt or fell really sick which prompted her to retire.
It was a little in a list of four years ago. I had four different surgeries. Maroney had a concussion, fractured shin, and a fractured foot. she wasn’t OK. and she couldn’t get out of bed, she was passing out all the time in the hospital. Every time she would go back into the gym and she would hurt something to get really sick.
Gosh, that was a heartbreaking moment for me. She had some small moments where her thought, was after coming together’ As hard as it was to accept, she went through a year of a really bad depression. It was really horrible obviously, nobody wanted to go through that.
McKayla Maroney Platic Surgery
In 2016 they were rumors that she had lip injections but in an exclusive interview with ET’s Lauren Zima at The Dub Room Studio, she dismissed the rumors and said it was just a makeup trick. “I’ll be very honest, I have not done anything to my face.
But it’s like there are rumors that are going to come up for the rest of my life and I can’t keep responding to them. People are always going to have opinions and it’s just better to move on and keep doing you. Basically, I’m wearing lip liner.”
McKayla Maroney Barack Obama
McKayla Maroney photographed the medal podium, after winning the silver medal in the vault finals, giving a brief look of disappointment with her lips pursed to the side. A Tumblr blog named the image “McKayla is not impressed” which became an internet phenomenon.
“McKayla is not impressed” image went viral after it was Photoshopped into various “impressive” places and situations, e.g. on top of the Great Wall of China and standing next to Usain Bolt.
In November 2012 together with the rest of the U.S. Gymnastics team met United States President Barack Obama at the White House and they both posed for a photo both making the same pursed-lips expression. The photo made to the top spot on Yahoo’s list of “Most Viral Photos” of 2012.
McKayla Maroney Concussion
McKayla sustained a mild concussion and a nasal fracture after hitting her head on the floor during training for the U.S. gymnastics championships on a Sunday.
She was doing a tumbling run during pre-meet training when she fell hard, landing flat on her back. McKayla Maroney thud could be heard throughout the arena, and she could lay there for several minutes before walking off the podium with Dr. Larry Nassar.
He examined herself on the sideline before the two left the competition floor. Maroney was taken to a nearby hospital where tests revealed the injuries.
McKayla Maroney was awarded a berth into the Olympic trials in California but later in that month, she helped the U.S. to win the team gold in the world championships last fall in Tokyo.
McKayla Maroney Gymnast
2009
Maroney competed at the Visa Championships in Dallas, Texas in August of 2009, Maroney placed a twenty-seventh all-around with a two-day combined score of 104.800 and a third vault final with a score of 29.900.
When she was asked about the first time she performed the Amanar competition, she did it at Visa Championships and she was just thirteen years old at that time. She was just a little girl and she didn’t really know what was going on. But she just did it, and she was very happy that I landed on my feet.”
2010
In July, McKayla Maroney competed at the CoverGirl Classic in Chicago, Illinois. She went on and placed the seventh of all-around competition with a score of 55.650. McKayla Maroney competed at the Visa Championships in Hartford, Connecticut in August.
She has placed in a third and all-around competition with a two-day combined score of 113.250. During her final event, she placed her first vault by scoring 32.000, seventh on balance beam and scoring 27.850, and fourth on floor scoring 28.400.
In September, Maroney competed at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico. McKayla Maroney has also contributed a vault score of 15.933, in a balance beam score of 13.866, and a floor score of 14.500 towards the American team’s first-place finish. In event finals, she placed first on vault with a score of 15.38 and first on floor with a score of 14.225.
McKayla Maroney in Early 2012
McKayla Maroney upgraded her second vault to a round-off, half-on, full-twisting front layout. “I’ve done it at two [U.S. team training] camps so far, and it’s going pretty well,” Maroney said. Her first vault remained an Amanar. In March, she competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy.
She placed her fourth-round competition with a score of 57.950. In May, Maroney competed at the Secret U.S. Classic in Chicago, Illinois. She placed first on vault with a score of 16.100 and a tenth on a balance beam with a score of 13.800.
In June 2012, Maroney competed at the Visa Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. McKayla Maroney’s first day of competition, she was placed in the seventh of all-around with a score of 58.700. During warmups for the second day of competition, she fell on a tumbling pass on the floor landing on her back.
She was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a minor concussion and nasal fracture. She took a week off from training and successfully petitioned to compete at the Olympic Trials. In July of 2012, Maroney competed at the Olympic Trials in San Jose, California.
Maroney said I’m thankful that I’m even here on the first day of the competition. I knew I had to hit vault because it’s the most important event for me to make the Olympic team.” She had fallen on the bars and beam of day one, and the major loss of formation bars in two days, she placed seventh in the all-around with a two-day combined score of 117.650.
In the finals event, she placed her first vault by scoring 31.700 and the fifth on floor scoring 29.700. Afterward, Maroney was chosen as a member of the team that was sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics. McKayla Maroney said This is the best feeling it’s just so amazing. I’m in shock right now.
I think this will be the happiest I’ll ever be in my life. It’s the absolute best feeling knowing that I trained so hard for this and all the hard things that I have accomplished and now to be on this team.
These girls are my best friends. My teammate Kyla Ross, we have been best friends since we were six years old so it’s just absolutely amazing to be going to the Olympics.”
When asked about feeling pressure to win gold on vault at the Olympics, she replied, “If I do my job I know I can get the gold medal. That’s what they picked me to be on the team for, so I need to be confident about that.”
Maroney was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the rest of the USA Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team on July 18, 2012, issue of “Olympic Preview”. This marked her first time in the entire Olympic gymnastics team that had been featured on the cover Sports Illustrated.
McKayla Maroney London Olympics
At the end of July, Maroney competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. During training, she aggravated a previous bone break in the big toe of her right foot but she still competed on vault, though she did not take part in the floor routine as she had hoped.
Some Bad things happen, and you will just have to make the best of it,” Maroney said. “It does hurt. It’s broken. How is it not going to hurt? Maroney just tries to ignore it and to have worked so hard to be here Maroney can just ignore the pain for a little bit.
“She helped the American team qualify in the first place and individually qualified in the first place to the vault final with a score of 15.800. Along with Jordyn Wieber, she is credited for changing the team’s nickname from the “Fab Five” to the “Fierce Five”.
While on the bus to a training session, they decided to change the name because the “Fab Five” was already used in the basketball team associated with the Michigan University and as well as being associated with the musical group Duran Duran.
All of them started searching their phones for words that start with letter F and that described the team. The top choices were feisty and fierce. Maroney and Wieber opted to choose fierce as they described it on their floor routines, and in the rest of the concurred team.
In the final team, she contributed to a vault score of 16.233 toward the American team’s first-place finish, which was the highest score in the competition. She also scored an execution average of 9.733, the highest execution score at an Olympics or world championship under the new scoring system for women’s gymnastics.
About the rest of the team final, Maroney said, “I just wanted them to do so well and I’m just so proud of them. I was screaming and yelling. That last event on the floor was really exhilarating, but amazing at the same time.
I don’t think I will ever, ever forget that.” In the vault final, she won a silver medal with a score of 15.083. She performs an Amanar for her first vault on her second but she fell. This fall ended her 33-vault hitting streak in the competition. Even with the fall, Maroney still came in second.
McKayla Maroney said I didn’t get my full block, and my hands didn’t touch the vault. She walked out with a silver medal and she was happy about that. I’ll have to watch the video and figure out what happened.
It’s really sad that I had to fall on that vault but I’m glad I won a silver medal. McKayla Maroney knows she can do better on vaults but also when she deserves the gold medal because of falling on her second vault. It happens. It’s gymnastics. You can’t always be perfect. Sometimes things don’t go as planned.”
McKayla Maroney Endorsement
McKayla Maroney was a member of the “Fierce Five” gymnastics team that won gold at the 2012 London Olympics, but she achieved viral fame on the internet for flashing her “not impressed” face when she had to settle for a silver medal for the vault in an event in which she was heavily favored.
Her “not impressed” face became one of the memes of the year even President Barack Obama did it in the White House but now Maroney is putting a different spin on the look. She recently signed on to endorse a new line of 10 calorie sodas from Dr. Pepper Snapple Group.
So what does her new “impressed” face look like? Should athletes be drinking soda? And what’s next for the 17-year-old Olympian? Maroney stopped by the Journal to answer all these questions. But don’t try to squeeze any more memes out of her. “I’m tired of naming all my faces,” she joked. “I’m just me.”
McKayla Maroney Junior career
McKayla Maroney started her junior career in 2009 participating in Visa Championships in Dallas, Texas. At the time, she was only 13 years 8 months old. She finished twenty-seventh in the all-around and third in the vault final.
She has also participated in the Cover Girl Classic Competition, Visa Championships, and Pan American Championships, of which were all done in 2010. During the 2010 Pan American Championships, she contributed to the American team to finish in the first place, as she also finished in the first on vault and floor.
McKayla Maroney is not impressed
McKayla Maroney after winning the silver medal in the vault finals was photographed on the medal podium while she was giving a brief look of disappointment with her lips pursed to the side.
Her image of “McKayla is not impressed” became an Internet phenomenon that was sparked by a Tumblr blog called. Her image went viral after it was Photoshopped into various “impressive” places and situations, e.g. on top of the Great Wall of China and standing next to Usain Bolt.
McKayla Maroney stated that she found the Internet meme “kinda funny”. Maroney later poked fun at the meme on various occasions including appearances on Late Show with David Letterman, The Colbert Report, Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars, Extra, and most notably when she and the rest of the U.S.
Gymnastics team met United States President Barack Obama at the White House in November 2012. McKayla Maroney and the former President Obama posed for a photo together, both making the same pursed-lips expression. Her viral podium picture became the top spot on Yahoo’s list of “Most Viral Photos” of 2012.
McKayla Maroney Post-Olympics
On September 2012, McKayla Maroney was injured during an uneven bars dismount while performing at the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions in Ontario, California. An MRI revealed that she had fractured the tibia in her left leg. The injury occurred shortly before teammate Aly Raisman injured herself performing on the same bars.
On September 13, 2012, Maroney had two screws inserted to repair the fractured left tibia. She wore an immobilizer to keep the leg straight until doctors determined that she was ready to resume limited walking and rebuilding range of motion. She returned to the Kellogg’s Tour on October 4, 2012, in Oklahoma City on a light-duty.
She was seen during the finale wearing her leg and foot splints and also at the VIP Meet and Greet session after the event. On January 12, 2013, Maroney served as one of the judges for the Miss America pageant. She participated in the Thirty Seconds to Mars music video “Up in the Air”. In 2013, she signed a sponsorship agreement with Adidas Gymnastics.
2014–16: Injuries and retirement
McKayla Maroney underwent surgery on her knee in March 2014, McKayla Maroney was featured on the cover of the April issue of Inside Gymnastics. McKayla Maroney has appeared in the International Gymnast Magazine, she said that she wanted to upgrade both of her vaults.
On August 31, 2014, she allegedly underaged nude images of her published celebrity photo leaks, she then claimed in her YouTube video that she struggled with adrenal fatigue following the 2013 World Championships.
On February 24, 2016, the gymnastics podcast that (GymCastic) was released as a candid with a 49-minute-long interview with Maroney regarding her health issues and preceding the 2012 Olympic Games. In the interview, she announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics who came two days after fellow Fierce Five teammate Kyla Ross’ retirement.
In 2016, she announced that she would be making a singing debut with a single named “Ghost”. She couldn’t compete in the Rio games after having multiple surgeries. This was extremely hard on her and she lost her self-confidence. It was an identity crisis, no doubt. She would go and meet people who would tell me, ‘You’re a gymnast.’
And now I’m no longer a competing gymnast, it throws people off and that would throw me off she said. She continued and said I don’t want to let people down. It is such a big test for me to be like, you know what? No! I’m worth more than a gold medal. I’m worth more than being a gymnast. I am not what I do. I am who I am and I’m what I love.”
Larry Nassar sexual abuse case
On October 18, 2017, Maroney alleged that USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar repeatedly molested her, starting when she was 13 years old until her retirement from the sport in 2016. Maroney is one of a number of women who have come forward with stories of sexual harassment or assault under the #MeToo hashtag on Twitter.
In November 2016 the former USA Gymnastics team physician Nassar was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting female minors throughout his career. In December, Maroney filed a suit against Nassar, Michigan State University, the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics accusing the latter two of covering up the sexual abuse by asking Maroney to sign a $1.25 million confidentiality agreement.
McKayla Maroney agreed and accepted the money. During Nassar’s sentencing hearing, USA Gymnastics waived the agreement, at least temporarily, to allow Maroney to make a victim’s statement in court against Nassar, who is now serving a 40-to-175-year prison sentence. On May 16, 2018, it was announced that Maroney and the other victims would be awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.
Maroney Music
McKayla Maroney after retirement said she was focusing on music and for her, music was healing and makes her happy. She also once in an interview said she used to train for 8 hours and the rest she would write music.
“Music for me is something that’s healing and [makes me] feel so happy. I think people [will] see that and they’re going to hear that in my music. I’ve loved music since I was 8 years old. I would write songs, It was really hard to accept that gymnastics [had] come to an end … that was my identity you know.”
Ghost
McKayla Maroney was set to release her single ‘Ghost’ on 8th September 2016.
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