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| Full name | Anna Li | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 4, 1988 Las Vegas, Nevada |
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| Residence | Aurora, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5ft 4" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Legacy Elite Gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| College team | UCLA Bruins 2007-10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Jiani Wu & Yuejiu Li | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Valerie Kondos-Field | ||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Li (born September 4, 1988 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American artistic gymnast. She was an 8-time All-American gymnast while competing in the NCAA and a member of the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team that won the 2010 NCAA National Championship title. She is currently on the US National Team. Her parents, Yuejiu Li and Jiani Wu were Olympic gymnasts who competed for China at the 1984 Summer Olympics and are also her coaches. She has a younger sister, Andrea who is also a gymnast. While training as a Level 10 and Elite gymnast she attended and graduated from Waubonsie Valley High School.
Anna began gymnastics when she was 4 years old at Las Vegas Flyers, and trained there until her family moved to Illinois.[1] Anna qualified to the Senior Elite level in 2004, competing the US National Championships in both 2004 and 2005 before being recruited by the UCLA Bruins. She was unable to compete for most of 2006 due to injury.[1]
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In 2006, Anna joined the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team. During her time with UCLA she won 6 regional titles ( 4 uneven bars, 1 vault, 1 balance beam), scored 3 perfect-10s on the uneven bars, was won 8 All-American honors and helped lead the Bruins to the NCAA Championship title in 2010.[2][3] Her first competition in the NCAA was a home meet at Pauley Pavilion, where her parents had competed in the Olympics.[3]
After finishing her 4 years with the Bruins, Anna decided that she was not done with gymnastics. While finishing up her history degree she trained alongside Bruins teammate Vanessa Zamirripa who was also returning to elite gymnastics, sometimes using the AOGC gym to train in [4] After leaving UCLA she returned home to train with her parents at Legacy Elite Gymnastics.
Anna also appeared in the ABCFamily show Make It or Break It.
In July 2011, she successfully qualified back to the elite level by competing at the American Classic, placing 1st on Uneven Bars and 3rd on Balance Beam. She went on to compete the same 2 events at the Covergirl Classic in Chicago. Despite a fall she still placed 7th on Uneven Bars.
In August she competed in the U.S. National Championships in St Paul, where she won a Bronze medal on Uneven Bars and placed 7th on Balance Beam qualifying her to the National Team, and was chosen to go to the World and Pan-American Teams Selection camps at the Karolyi Ranch in New Waverly, Texas.
She was chosen as an alternate for the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team.[5] Due to an adominal injury she was not chosen to compete,[6] but took the place of injured teammate and captain Alicia Sacramone on the floor to support her younger teammates, and stood on the medal podium with them.