Carly Patterson

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Carly Patterson
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Patterson in 2009
Personal information
Full nameCarly Rae Patterson
Country representedFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Born (1988-02-04) February 4, 1988 (age 35)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
Hometown Allen, Texas, U.S.
Height5 ft 0 in (152 cm)
Weight97 lb (44 kg)
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior Elite
Years on national team2000–2004 [1] (USA)
Club World Olympic Gymnastics Academy
Head coach(es)Evgeny Marchenko
Assistant coach(es)Natasha Boyarskaya
ChoreographerTatiana Shegolkova
Eponymous skills Patterson: Double Arabian Dismount (balance beam)
Retired2006
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 120
World Championships 110
American Cup 200
Total430
Event1st2nd3rd
All-Around (OG/WC) 220
Uneven Bars (OG/WC) 000
Balance Beam (OG/WC) 010
Vault (OG/WC) 000
Floor Exercise (OG/WC) 000
Total230
Women's artistic gymnastics
Representing Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens All-around
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004 Athens Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004 Athens Balance Beam
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Anaheim Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2003 AnaheimAll-around
American Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2003 FairfaxAll-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2004 New YorkAll-around
Awards Longines Prize for Elegance

Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988) [2] is an American singer, songwriter and former artistic gymnast. [2] She was the all-around champion at the 2004 Olympics, the first all-around champion for the United States at a non-boycotted Olympics, and is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Patterson frequently joins radio segments on 1310 AM and 96.7 FM The Ticket in Dallas Fort-Worth.

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Gymnastics

Patterson began gymnastics after attending a cousin's birthday party at a Baton Rouge gymnastics club (Elite Gymnastics) in 1994. [3] She was coached there by former Israeli Olympian Yohanan Moyal. [4] She started competing internationally in 2000, when she was 12 years old.

2000–2003

In 2000, Patterson participated in the Top Gym Tournament in Belgium and won the silver medal in the all-around and the bronze on balance beam. The next year, at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, she was ranked second in the all-around before the final rotation but missed three landings on the floor exercise and finished seventh.

Patterson became the U.S. junior national all-around champion in 2002. She then began her senior career by winning the 2003 American Cup, where she was the youngest competitor, having just turned 15. However, she was forced to sit out the 2003 U.S. National Championships, which would have been her first Nationals as a senior, because of a broken elbow.

Although she could not compete in Nationals, Patterson successfully petitioned to the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California. There, she earned the all-around silver medal, becoming the first American woman to medal in a World Championships all-around since Shannon Miller in 1994. She also helped the United States earn the team gold medal, a first for the American women.

2004

Patterson again won the all-around at the American Cup in 2004, a performance she dedicated to her coach Evgeny Marchenko's mother, who had died just days before the competition. Later that year, she became co-national champion with Courtney Kupets. She also won the floor exercise at the National Championships and placed second on balance beam.

At the Olympic Trials, Patterson fell off the balance beam on both days of competition, dropping her to third place. However, her performances at a subsequent national training camp were strong enough for her to make the Olympic team.

Olympic Games

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Patterson finished first overall in the preliminary round and qualified for the all-around and balance beam finals. The United States, including Patterson, struggled in the team final: She under-rotated her vault, stubbed the low bar with her foot on the uneven bars, and had several wobbles on balance beam and a lunge forward on her dismount. She later admitted to being distracted after a rushed start on vault, with her coach saying, "The beginning of the competition was stressful. It set the tone." [5] The U.S. women, the reigning world champions, settled for silver. [5]

In the individual all-around, Patterson narrowly defeated three-time world all-around champion Svetlana Khorkina of Russia. After scoring lower than usual on the vault (9.375), Patterson was stronger on her last three events, scoring 9.575 on the uneven bars, 9.725 on the balance beam, and 9.712 on the floor exercise. She became only the second American woman to win an Olympic all-around gold medal, and the first to do so in a non-boycotted Olympic Games. (Mary Lou Retton won the title at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. But because those Games were boycotted by the Soviet Union, Retton did not face the Soviet gymnasts who consistently dominated the sport during that period, accounting for five of the eight Olympic all-around champions before 1984 and nine of the ten previous world all-around champions.) [6] [7]

On August 23, Patterson competed in the balance beam event final, where she received a score of 9.775 and won the silver medal behind Cătălina Ponor of Romania.

Post-Olympics

Soon after the Olympics, Patterson was diagnosed with several bulging discs in her lower back that had gone unnoticed. She announced her intention to take time off from the sport to rehabilitate her back, but she officially retired in 2006 without ever participating in another major competition. She recalled the decision in a 2009 interview, saying, "I started having some back issues, and honestly, my doctor was like, 'Carly, you really need to stop if you want to be able to walk when you get older.' ... So I retired and moved on to singing." [8]

She continues to stay occupied with event appearances, gymnastics-related and otherwise. She also has a number of high-profile corporate sponsorships; she appeared in a Mobile ESPN commercial aired during Super Bowl XL in 2006. She also finished her authorized biography, which was released in April 2006.

In December 2011, she was featured on the TV show Hollywood at Home. [9]

Eponymous skill

Patterson has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points. [10]

ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficulty [lower-alpha 1]
Balance beamPattersonArabian double salto forward tuckedG
  1. Valid for the 2022-2024 Code of Points

Competitive history

YearEventTeamAA VT UB BB FX
Junior
2000American Classic136
U.S. Classic Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg6
U.S. National Championships 4Silver medal icon.svg4
2001Goodwill Games75
Pule Int'l Junior CupGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
U.S. Classic Gold medal icon.svg5Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
U.S. National Championships Bronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
2002Gymnix Int'lGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
Jurassic ClassicGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
Pacific Alliance Championships Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
TJ Maxx Int'l ChallengeGold medal icon.svg
USA-Mexico Dual MeetGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
USA-UKR-BRA FriendlyGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
American ClassicSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg5Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
National Elite Podium MeetGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
U.S. Classic Gold medal icon.svg4Bronze medal icon.svg7Silver medal icon.svg
U.S. National Championships Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
Senior
2003 American Cup Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
Pacific ChallengeGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg5Bronze medal icon.svg5
Anaheim World Championships Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
2004 American Cup Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
Pacific Alliance Championships Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
U.S. National Championships Gold medal icon.svg5Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
Olympic Trials Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
Athens Olympic Games Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg

Music

Carly Patterson
Origin Allen, Texas, U.S.[ citation needed ]
Genres Rock, pop
Instrument(s) Vocals
Years active2007–present
LabelsMusicMind Records

Patterson first expressed interest in becoming a professional singer in a March 2005 interview. On August 21, 2005, she gave an interview on Fox Sports Net's Sports Sunday in which she gave more details on her future career. She sang a small segment of "Damaged" and said that she went to New York City to record the demo. On December 18, 2005, she announced that she signed a demo contract for four songs with Papa Joe's Records, owned by Joe Simpson, father of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. She worked with singer and writer Chris Megert. They wrote and produced songs titled "Time to Wake Up" and "Lost in Me".

Celebrity Duets

On August 29, 2006, she started her appearance on the show Celebrity Duets . The program was a reality competition show executive produced by Simon Cowell. Celebrities not known for singing were teamed up with professional singers; one of the eight celebrities was voted off each week. The show aired every Thursday on Fox with a results show each Friday, from September 7, 2006, to October 13, 2006.

On September 15, 2006, during the results show, Patterson was eliminated from the competition (singing with Jesse McCartney). Patterson said that she would continue to sing. She also encouraged the audience to continue voting for the remaining celebrities because each vote raised money for charity.

Recording

On February 4, 2008, Patterson signed a recording contract with MusicMind Records, a Chicago-based label. Her single "Temporary Life (Ordinary Girl)" was released on iTunes on March 25, 2008. Her debut album Back to the Beginning was scheduled for release August 5, 2008. However, the CD was not released until more than a year later, on August 25, 2009, and in the interim, Patterson released another single, "Time to Wake Up", on iTunes on February 19, 2009.

On September 10, 2008, a remixed version of Patterson's "Temporary Life (Ordinary Girl)" was played on the Bobby Bones Show . The mixed version featured the new artist Captain Caucasian, a pseudonym for Bobby Bones.

Patterson's song "Here I Am" was featured on the second season of the ABC Family series Make It or Break It , which focused on the lives of teen gymnasts striving to make it to the Olympic Games.

Personal life

On January 21, 2012, Patterson became engaged to strategy consultant Mark Caldwell. [11] They married on November 3, 2012, in Dallas, Texas. They have three children. [12]

Honors and awards

Patterson was chosen for the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2009. [13]

See also

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