Rebecca Bross

Rebecca Marie Bross
Personal information
Full name	Rebecca Marie Bross
Nickname(s)	Becca
Country represented	United States
Born	July 11, 1993 (1993-07-11) Ann Arbor, Michigan
Hometown	Plano, Texas
Residence	Plano, Texas, US
Height	5 ft 0 in (1.52 m)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International Elite
Years on national team	2005-Present
Club	WOGA
Gym	World Olympic Gymnastics Academy
Head coach(es)	Valeri Liukin and Dina Kamalova
Former coach(es)	Natalia Marakova
Choreographer	Antonia Marakova
Music	"Dark Eyes" (2010)
Medal record Women's gymnastics Competitor for the United States World Championships Silver 2009 London All-Around Silver 2010 Rotterdam Team Silver 2010 Rotterdam Balance Beam Bronze 2009 London Uneven Bars Bronze 2010 Rotterdam All-Around Bronze 2010 Rotterdam Uneven Bars Pan American Games Gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team Gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro Floor Silver 2007 Rio de Janeiro All-Around Pacific Rim Championships Gold 2010 Melbourne Team Gold 2010 Melbourne All-Around Gold 2010 Melbourne Balance beam Gold 2010 Melbourne Floor exercise Silver 2010 Melbourne Uneven bars

Rebecca Bross (born July 11, 1993 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American artistic gymnast. She won the all-around and three events at the junior national championships in 2007. At the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, Bross won a team gold, individual all-around second, and the first place in floor exercise. She was a member of the U.S. Women's Team in the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London. She won the silver all-around medal behind teammate Bridget Sloan, and tied with Romanian Ana Porgras for the bronze medal on the uneven bars. Rebecca Bross' official website launched on Friday, April 23, 2010. The website is located at http://rebecca-bross.com.

Personal life

Bross is the daughter of Terry Bross and Donna [Brugge] Bross. She has one older brother named Benjamin. Her parents put her in a gymnastics class at the age of six. She has since then steadily become one of America's top gymnasts at the Junior International level. Presently, she is a Senior International Elite level gymnast, and returned to competition—after her knee surgery in late 2008—to compete at the 2009 US Classic in Des Moines, Iowa. She is coached by Valeri Liukin at WOGA Gymnastics.

Routines

As of 2011, Bross performs the following skills on these apparatus:

Apparatus	Skills	D Score	Top Score in World Championship/World Cup/Olympic Competition
Vault	Double twisting Yurchenko	5.8
Uneven Bars	KCH on low bar + toe-on handstand 1/1 (D) + Shaposhnikova 1/2 (E); KCH + piked stalder 1/1 (E) + Tkatchev (D); KCH + piked stalder 1/2 (D) + Jaegar (D); KCH + stalder to handstand 1/1 (D) + Pak Salto (D); KCH 1/2 + toe-shoot to high bar; KCH + giant + giant + full-in dismount (D)	6.5
Balance Beam	Jump on; 1/1 turn in tuckstand (B); standing Arabian (F); front aerial (D) + flip flop (B) + back layout stepout (C); switch split leap (C) + back tuck (C); sheep jump (D); switch split ring leap (E); side somi (D); front tuck (D); roundoff + Arabian double dismount (G)	6.5
Floor Exercise	Front handspring + front layout (B) + double front (E) + Stag jump (A); roundoff + back layout 3/2 (C) + front layout 2/1 (D) + Split Leap (A); switch ring leap (C) + switch leap 1/2 (C); 2/1 turn with leg at horizontal (D); split leap 3/2 (D); roundoff + back layout 5/2 (D) + front layout 1/1 (C)	6.3

Floor music

2011: "Beethoven Virus"

2010: "Dark Eyes"

2005-2009: "National Treasure Suite" from the National Treasure Soundtrack

Competitive history

Rebecca Bross first qualified to Junior International Elite in 2005, where she also qualified to her first US Nationals where she placed 16th all-around, and a spot on the national team. Rebecca then competed in a few international assignments over the next year. At the 2006 US Nationals Rebecca placed 4th all-around, which also qualified her to the Junior Pan Ams Team. In 2007 Rebecca was then selected for the Pan American Games Team. She then finished 2nd all-around, behind other teammate, Shawn Johnson. During the 2007 US Championships, despite a fall Rebecca came back and won her first US National Champion. She later won the Junior Japan Invitational.

Rebecca was able to compete in some Classic's and Invitationals in early 2008. She then competed at the Pacific Rim Championships with WOGA teammate Nastia Liukin, where she then won gold medals on the all-around, beam, bars and floor. She then had to sit out the rest of the year due to a broken foot.

On July 25, 2009, at the Covergirl Classic in Des Moines, Iowa, Bross competed on the Uneven Bars, scoring a 13.150 (.050 better than her teammate, Ivana Hong), but was unable to compete on Floor, Beam, or Vault, due to an ankle injury suffered during practice a few days earlier. (It should be noted that she competed her bar routine without a dismount, thus lowering her overall score.)

In August 2009, Bross finished third all-around behind Bridget Sloan (1st) and Ivana Hong (2nd) at the U.S. National Championships. Bross also placed third on balance beam and second on floor to end a successful first senior Nationals.

The following October, at the World Championships in London, England, Bross qualified in first place into the all around final. She also qualified second on uneven bars final and eighth on floor exercise. She fell on her beam dismount in preliminaries, which prevented her from qualifying on that event. In the all around final, Bross led the competition going into the final event. Needing only a 12.925 to clinch the gold, she fell on her final tumbling pass on floor to just miss the score she needed (the judges awarded her a 12.875). Her American teammate, Bridget Sloan claimed the gold, while Bross took the silver. She went on to tie Romania's Ana Porgras for the bronze medal in the uneven bars event final.

In March 2010, she won the all-around at the American Cup. Bross won every event with the exception of the vault, which was won by her teammate Alexandra Raisman. In April, she won the senior All Around title at the Pacific Rim Championships in Melbourne, Australia. At the 2010 VISA Championships, Bross finished day 1 with a 2 point lead. On Day 2 she finished with a 3 point lead, clinching the National Title, to become the 2010 National Champion. She was selected for the women's team to the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There, she helped the USA win a Silver medal behind the newly dominant Russian team. In the all around, after a fall on beam, she bounced back on floor to get the bronze medal, scoring a 15.233 - the highest score handed out on floor out of any women at the entire meet. Russia's Aliya Mustafina was the winner and China's Jiang Yuyuan was the silver medalist. In event finals, she clinched the bronze on the uneven bars and tied with China's Deng Linlin for the silver on the balance beam behind Romania's Ana Porgras.

At the 2011 Visa Championships, Bross during night 2 of the competition, dislocated her right kneecap during a third rotation vault. Due to the injury, Bross sat out competition for the remainder of the 2011 season. Despite this, Bross had still earned a second-place finish on floor exercise, with a two-night total of 29.50. She also placed eighth on beam (27.6).

Competition placing results

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2005	Visa Championships	Indianapolis, Indiana	Team
			All Around	16
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault	7
			Balance Beam
	US Classic	Virginia Beach, Virginia	Team
			All Around
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault	4
			Balance Beam
	Women's Junior Olympic Level 10 National Championships	Ontario, California	Team
			All Around	5
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault
			Balance Beam	1
2006	Junior Pan American Championships	Quebec, Canada	Team	1
			All Around
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault	1
			Balance Beam
	Pacific Alliance Championships	Honolulu, Hawaii	Team	1
			All Around	4
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault
			Balance Beam	5
	Visa Championships	St. Paul, Minnesota	Team
			All Around	4
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault
			Balance Beam	2
2007	Pan American Games	Rio de Janeiro	Team	1
			All Around	2
			Floor Exercise	1
			Uneven Bars
			Vault
			Balance Beam
	Visa Championships	San Jose, California	Team
			All Around	1
			Floor Exercise	1
			Uneven Bars	1
			Vault	1
			Balance Beam	2
	International Jr. Japan Competition	Yokohama, Japan	Team
			All Around	1
			Floor Exercise	1
			Uneven Bars	1
			Vault	1
			Balance Beam	1
2008	Italy-Spain-Poland-USA Competition	Jesolo, Italy	Team	1
			All Around	2
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault
			Balance Beam
	Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships	San Jose, California	Team	1
			All Around	1
			Floor Exercise	1
			Uneven Bars	8
			Vault	1
			Balance Beam	1
2009	Gymnastics Covergirl Classic	Des Moines, Iowa	Team
			All Around	21
			Floor Exercise	13* (DNC)
			Uneven Bars	10T
			Vault	18* (DNC)
			Balance Beam	16* (DNC)
	VISA Championship	Dallas, Texas	Team
			All Around	3
			Floor Exercise	2
			Uneven Bars	6
			Vault	4
			Balance Beam	3
	World Championships	London, England	Team
			All Around	2
			Floor Exercise	5 (Tied)
			Uneven Bars	3 (Tied)
			Vault
			Balance Beam
2010	WOGA Classic	Frisco, Texas	Team
			All Around
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars
			Vault
			Balance Beam	1
	Tyson American Cup	Worcester, Massachusetts	Team
			All Around	1
			Floor Exercise	1
			Uneven Bars	1
			Vault	2
			Balance Beam	1
	Pacific Rim Championship	Melbourne, Australia	Team	1
			All Around	1
			Floor Exercise	1
			Uneven Bars	2
			Vault
			Balance Beam	1
	Covergirl Classic	Chicago, Illinois	Team
			All Around
			Floor Exercise	DNC
			Uneven Bars	1
			Vault	DNC
			Balance Beam	6
	VISA Championship	Hartford, Connecticut	Team
			All Around	1
			Floor Exercise	2
			Uneven Bars	1
			Vault	5
			Balance Beam	1
	World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Team	2
			All Around	3
			Floor Exercise
			Uneven Bars	3
			Vault	DNC
			Balance Beam	2
2011	VISA Championship	St. Paul, MN	Team
			All Around	14
			Floor Exercise	2
			Uneven Bars	17
			Vault
			Balance Beam	8

External links

• Rebecca Bross at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Rebecca Bross Bio
• Rebecca Bross at USA Gymnastics
• Rebecca Bross official website
• Gymnastike Videos of Rebecca Bross