Laurie Hernandez

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Laurie Hernandez
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Hernandez in Phoenix, Arizona, in July 2017
Personal information
Full nameLauren Zoe Hernandez [1]
Nickname(s)Laurie, Lo
Country representedFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Born (2000-06-09) June 9, 2000 (age 24)
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Hometown Old Bridge Township, New Jersey
Residence Manhattan, New York
Height5 ft 1 in (155 cm) [2]
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2012–16 (USA)
ClubGym-Max Gymnastics (2018–2021), MG Elite (former)
Head coach(es)Jenny Liang
Former coach(es) Maggie Haney
RetiredJune 6, 2021
Medal record
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Balance beam
Pacific Rim Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Everett Team

Lauren Zoe Hernandez (born June 9, 2000) is an American retired artistic gymnast. During her debut year as a senior gymnast, she competed as a member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team dubbed the "Final Five" that won the team gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Individually, Hernandez earned the silver medal on the balance beam. She took a break from gymnastics and returned to training in late 2018 to earn a spot on the 2020 Summer Olympics team, but she did not qualify for the Olympic Trials.

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Hernandez was first added to the U.S. gymnastics national team in 2013 and began competing in international competitions that same year. After missing the 2014 season due to injury, she won the junior all-around title at the 2015 U.S. Championships. In addition to winning Olympic gold, Hernandez also won team gold medals at the 2016 City of Jesolo Trophy and 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships.

Outside of gymnastics, Hernandez has appeared on season 23 of Dancing with the Stars in 2016, where she won the competition along with partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy. Hernandez hosted the first season of American Ninja Warrior Junior as the on-course reporter and starred as Valeria in the Nickelodeon animated miniseries Middle School Moguls. She is the author of two books, I Got This: To Gold and Beyond, a New York Times Bestseller, and She's Got This, a children's book.

Early life

Hernandez was born on June 9, 2000, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, [3] and is the daughter of Wanda and Anthony Hernandez. [4] Her grandparents emigrated from Puerto Rico. [5] [6] She has a sister, Jelysa, and a brother, Marcus. [7] She took ballet lessons when she was four, but she asked her parents to switch to gymnastics when she was five. [8] She was homeschooled through the Abeka Academy distance-learning program. [7] [9]

Junior gymnastics career

2012–2013

At the 2012 National Qualifier held at the Karolyi Ranch, Hernandez won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Veronica Hults and Maggie Nichols, and her scores qualified her for domestic elite competitions. [10] Later that week at the American Classic, she finished eighth in the junior all-around. [11] She then competed at the U.S. Classic, where she placed 11th in the junior division. [12] Through the Classic, she qualified for the U.S. Championships in St. Louis, where she placed 21st after two days of competition. [13]

Hernandez won the silver medal in the all-around at the 2013 WOGA Classic. [14] In June, she competed at the American Classic in Huntsville, Texas. There, she placed first on floor exercise, second in the all-around behind Ariana Agrapides, and third on balance beam and vault. [15] Following a national training camp, in July 2013, she was added to the U.S. junior national team. [16] She then went to Chicago for the U.S. Classic, where she placed sixth all-around and won the floor exercise title. [17] At the National Championships in August, she won the silver medal in the junior all-around competition with a total score of 116.650, behind Bailie Key. She also placed second on uneven bars and floor exercise, and tied for third on beam with Alexis Vasquez. [18]

Hernandez was selected to represent the U.S. at the Junior Japan International in Yokohama in September 2013. She scored 56.750 to win the bronze medal in the all-around. [19] She also took third on vault, fourth on floor exercise, and sixth on balance beam. [20] In November, she competed at the International Junior Mexican Cup in Acapulco alongside Bailie Key, Veronica Hults, and Emily Gaskins, and they won the team gold medal. Individually, Hernandez won the silver medal in the all-around behind Key. [21]


2014–2015

In early 2014, Hernandez fractured her wrist when she slipped off the beam in a training session. Later that year, she dislocated her kneecap and tore her patellar tendon. [22] [23] [24] She resumed training in the fall and attended the final U.S. training camp of the year in November. [25]

Hernandez was named to the U.S. team for the 2015 City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, where she was crowned junior all-around champion with a score of 57.650, ahead of teammates Norah Flatley and Jazmyn Foberg. [26] In the junior-division event finals, she earned additional gold medals on the uneven bars and the floor exercise. [27] At the U.S. Classic in July, she won the junior all-around title with a score of 58.450, as well as winning vault and uneven bars. She placed third on the balance beam and floor exercise. [28] At the U.S. Championships, she had a score of 57.900 on the first day of competition and 59.550 on the second day, winning the junior all-around title over defending champion Foberg. She also won the title on the uneven bars, a silver medal on the floor exercise, and bronze medals on the balance beam and vault. [29] She was then selected to compete at the 2015 International Junior Japan Meet in Yokohama, where she won the all-around, floor exercise, and vault and won silver medals on balance beam and uneven bars. [30]

Senior gymnastics career

2016

Hernandez made her senior debut in 2016 at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where the U.S. team won the gold medal. Hernandez won the bronze medal in the all-around with a score of 58.550, behind two U.S. teammates, fellow first-year senior Ragan Smith and Gabby Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around champion. [31] She also earned a silver medal on the vault behind MyKayla Skinner and a gold medal on the balance beam, ahead of Smith and 2012 Olympian Aly Raisman. [32]

In April, Hernandez competed at the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships in Everett, Washington along with Raisman, Smith, three-time world all-around champion Simone Biles, and 2015 World Championships team member Brenna Dowell. She contributed an all-around score of 59.800 toward the American team's first-place finish and placed third individually behind Biles and Raisman, but did not earn the all-around bronze medal because of a rule limiting medals to two gymnasts per country (Japan's Nagi Kajita took bronze instead). [33] [34] Hernandez also qualified for the balance beam final, but USA Gymnastics announced that she and Biles would not compete in event finals in order to rest them before the Olympics. [35]

In June, Hernandez competed at the U.S. Classic on the uneven bars only, scoring 15.400 and placing fourth. [36] Later that month, she competed on all four events at the U.S. Championships. At the end of night one, she was tied for second place in the all-around with Raisman, behind Biles, with a score of 60.450. [37] She finished the two-day competition in third all-around, behind Biles and Raisman. [38] She placed third on uneven bars and balance beam and tied for third on floor exercise with MyKayla Skinner. [39]

At the Olympic trials in early July, Hernandez placed second in the all-around, behind Biles. [40] She was named to the Olympic team alongside Biles, Douglas, Raisman, and Madison Kocian. [41] Hernandez had previously committed to the University of Florida to compete on the Florida Gators gymnastics team in the NCAA. [42] However, she decided to forgo NCAA eligibility and become a professional athlete on August 3, 2016, in the lead-up to the Olympic Games. [43] [44]

Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Hernandez at the 2016 Summer Olympics Laurie Hernandez Rio 2016.jpg
Hernandez at the 2016 Summer Olympics

On August 7, Hernandez competed in the qualification round at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She scored 15.200 on the vault, 15.366 on the balance beam, and 14.800 on the floor exercise, qualifying for the balance beam event final in second place. [45] [46] She posted the fourth highest score on floor, but she did not advance to the final due to the two-per-country rule, with teammates Biles and Raisman getting higher scores. [45] Hernandez did not compete on uneven bars. The United States team finished first in team qualifications, securing a spot in team finals nearly 10 points ahead of the second-place team. [47]

Hernandez and the rest of the United States team, known as the Final Five, won gold in the team final. The Americans won every event, scoring a total of 184.897, more than eight points higher than second-place team Russia (176.688) and third-place team China (176.003). [48] [49] Hernandez was the first competitor on vault and floor exercise for the United States team. [48] She contributed to the overall score with 15.100 on vault, 15.233 on beam, and 14.833 on floor exercise. [48] [49]

Hernandez won a silver medal in the balance beam event final with a score of 15.333. She placed ahead of teammate Simone Biles, who placed third with a score of 14.733, and behind Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands, who won gold with a score of 15.466. [50] [51]

Hiatus

After the 2016 Olympics, Hernandez took a break from gymnastics to pursue media opportunities and rest her body. [52] She appeared on the television show Dancing with the Stars and won the competition. [53] She continued appearing on television and in the media throughout the next four years, as a show host and voice actor as well as a celebrity guest. She returned to gymnastics training in October 2018, after two years off. [54] [55] Although Hernandez previously trained in New Jersey at MG Elite, for her comeback she chose to switch gymnastics clubs and train at Gym-Max in California with coaches Jenny Zhang and Howie Liang. [54] [56] She was invited to the national team training camp held November 15–18, 2019, [57] after spectating at the U.S. Championships in August and speaking to team coordinator Tom Forster while there. [58]

2020

In January 2020, Hernandez said that she was focusing on meets beginning in late May 2020: the U.S. Classic, U.S. Championships, and U.S. Olympic Trials. [59] Hernandez did not attend the February national team training camp, despite being invited. [60] [59] As the February camp was a selection for spring international meets, Hernandez could not participate in competitions held in March and April 2020. According to team coordinator Tom Forster, Hernandez accepted an invitation to the April camp. [60] [59] However, this training camp and the competitions for the 2020 season were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [61]

On April 29, Hernandez's former coach Maggie Haney was suspended by USA Gymnastics for eight years due to abusive conduct. [62] Hernandez testified against Haney at the USA Gymnastics hearing, [62] and posted a message about her experiences on her social media without naming the coach. [63] Haney publicly humiliated Hernandez for her weight, leading Hernandez to binge and purge. [64] She also forced Hernandez to train and compete while injured. In 2020, Hernandez said that she still struggled with depression and disordered eating that began due to Haney's abuse. [65] Within the gymnastics community, Haney's suspension was seen as progress in the aftermath of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal. [66]

2021

In February, Hernandez returned to elite gymnastics competition at the 2021 Winter Cup, competing on two events. Despite competing a downgraded floor routine, Hernandez managed to hit a clean beam routine to finish fifth on the event behind Skye Blakely, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Konnor McClain. [67] [68] Then at the 2021 U.S. Classic, she competed on the vault and balance beam, but she fell off the balance beam. [69] In June, Hernandez was scheduled to compete at the 2021 U.S. Championships. However, she had to withdraw from the competition after hyperextending her left knee in balance beam warm-ups. [70] She was not added to the national team, and she did not qualify to compete at the upcoming Olympic Trials. [71] She later shared that she had a torn meniscus, a bone bruise, and a cyst. [72]

Hernandez participated in Simone Biles' Gold Over America Tour in the fall of 2021. [73] She retired from competition in 2021. [74]

Television roles and media appearances

Dancing with the Stars

Hernandez was revealed as one of the celebrities competing on season 23 of Dancing with the Stars on August 30, 2016. She was partnered with professional dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy. [75] The couple won the competition and the Mirrorball Trophy on the episode that aired November 22, 2016. [76] At 16, Hernandez was the show's youngest winner. [77] [78]

In November 2017, Hernandez returned to the 25th season in week eight, to participate in a trio jive with Victoria Arlen and Chmerkovskiy. [79]

Week #Dance/SongJudges' scoresResultRef.
Inaba Goodman Hough Tonioli
1 Cha-cha-cha / "American Girl"8878No elimination [80]
2 Jive / "DuckTales"8888Safe [81]
3 Tango / "Into the Sunset"7888Safe (Immunity) [82]
4 Jazz / "The Way You Make Me Feel"10101010Safe [83]
5 Paso doble / "Rise"8998No elimination [84]
6 Salsa / "Light It Up"99910Safe [85]
7 Quickstep / "One Fine Day"
Team Freestyle / "Embrace"		8
8		8
9		9
9		9
9		Safe [86]
8 Viennese waltz / "Pure Imagination"
10101010Safe [87]
9 Argentine tango / "Cell Block Tango"
Contemporary / "Bird Set Free"		10
10		10
10		10
10		10
10		Safe [88]
10
Semifinals		 Foxtrot / "Hollow"
Samba / "Magalenha"		10
10		10
10		10
10		10
10		Safe [89]
11
Finals		 Paso doble / "Wicked Ones"
Freestyle / "Brand New"
Fusion (Argentine tango + Foxtrot) / "We Are the Ones"		9
10
10		10
10
10		9
10
10		10
10
10		Winner [90]

Other television roles

Hernandez was the on-course reporter for the first season of American Ninja Warrior Junior . [91] [92] In 2019, she starred with Daniella Perkins and Jade Pettyjohn in the Nickelodeon animated mini-series Middle School Moguls , voicing a character named Valeria. [93] Hernandez was one of five gymnasts featured on the Peacock docuseries Golden: The Journey of USA's Elite Gymnasts. [94] Despite not making the 2020 Olympic team, she still traveled to Tokyo as a commentator for NBC. [72] She guest starred as herself alongside Dominique Dawes and Gabby Douglas in an episode airing in 2023 of the second season of the Disney+ animated series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder . [95]

Hernandez provided color commentary for NBC's live daytime coverage of the women's artistic gymnastics events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [96] [97] She discussed having imposter syndrome before the 2024 Summer Olympics and was praised for "her enthusiastic, insightful and down-to-earth" commentary. [98]

Other appearances and books

On November 24, 2016, she appeared on the 90th anniversary of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , riding the Spirit of America float. [99] Then in 2017, she was the special guest narrator for the Candlelight Processional at Epcot Center in Disney World. [100] She was a Grand Marshal of the 2020 Rose Parade. [101]

Hernandez released her book I Got This: To Gold and Beyond on January 24, 2017. [102] In 2018, Hernandez published a similar children's book titled She's Got This, with illustrations by Nina Mata. [103]

Honors

Personal life

Hernandez has been dating fellow gymnast Charlotte Drury since December 2020. [106] She started attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2023. [107]

Competitive history

Competition history for Laurie Hernandez [3]
YearEventTeamAA VT UB BB FX
Junior
2012National QualifierBronze medal icon.svg136Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
American Classic8108Silver medal icon.svg6
U.S. Classic 11102376
U.S. Championships 2119192117
2013 WOGA Classic Silver medal icon.svg4Bronze medal icon.svg49
American ClassicSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg7Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
U.S. Classic 68816Gold medal icon.svg
U.S. Championships Silver medal icon.svg5Silver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
Japan Junior InternationalBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg64
Junior Mexican CupGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
2015 City of Jesolo Trophy Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
U.S. Classic Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
U.S. Championships Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
Japan Junior InternationalGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
Senior
2016 City of Jesolo Trophy Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
Pacific Rim Championships Gold medal icon.svg
U.S. Classic 4
U.S. Championships Bronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
Olympic Trials Silver medal icon.svg47Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
Olympic Games Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
2017 did not compete
2018
2019
2020
2021 Winter Cup 513
U.S. Classic 22
U.S. Championships WD

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2016 Dancing with the Stars HerselfContestant on Season 23 [75]
2017 Stuck in the Middle 1 episode [108]
2018 Sesame Street Cameo on Season 48 [109]
Celebrity Family Feud Summer 2018 Season [110]
American Ninja Warrior Junior Co-Host [91]
2019 Middle School Moguls ValeriaMain voice role [93]
2020 Blue's Clues & You! Episode: "Happy Birthday, Blue!" [111]
2021Golden: The Journey of USA's Elite Gymnasts Peacock docuseries [94]
2023 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder Episode: "A Perfect 10" [95]

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