Junior
In 2021, Keys joined the junior national team. She competed at the 2021 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, where she won team gold. Individually, she won bronze in the all-around as well as with ball and with clubs. [2]
The following year, at the Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, she won another team gold and gold in the junior all-around. In the apparatus finals, she won two more golds with ball and with ribbon as well as silver with hoop. [3] [4] [5] At the national level, she was the all-around junior silver medalist. [6]
In 2023, Keys became the all-around junior national champion. [6] At the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara in June, she won a third team gold and second consecutive gold in the junior all-around. She won two more golds in the apparatus finals, with hoop and with ball, in addition to silver with clubs and bronze with ribbon. [7] [8] [9]
In July, she was selected for the Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca along with Megan Chu and the junior group. She won an historic bronze medal in the clubs final, becoming the first rhythmic gymnast from the United States, or any country in the Americas, to win a World Championships medal at either the junior or senior level. [10] [11] [12]
Senior
2024
In 2024, she began competing in the senior category. She made her international debut in March at her first World Cup in Palaio Faliro, Greece, where she placed 7th in the all-around and qualified for two finals. In the finals, she finished 4th with the ball and 6th with the clubs. [13] In April, she competed at the World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she placed 12th in all-around but did not qualify for any finals. [14]
In June, she competed at the 2024 Pan American Championships and won a silver medal in the team competition together with Jaelyn Chin, Megan Chu and Alexandria Kautzman. She also won a silver medal in the all-around behind Bárbara Domingos from Brazil. In the apparatus finals, she won gold with clubs and silver with ball, and she placed 4th in the hoop and ribbon finals.
She won the all-around at the 2024 USA National Championships, as well as gold in hoop, silver in ribbon and bronze in clubs. [6] At the end of September, Keys, along with her teammates Megan Chu and Natalia de la Rosa, participated in the international club competition Aeon Cup in Japan, where they won a historic gold medal ahead of the Ukrainian and Italian teams. She placed 5th in the all-around. [15]
2025
In 2025, Keys competed at the Sofia World Cup in April and finished in 6th place in the all-around. In the ribbon final, she won the bronze medal behind Taisiia Onofriichuk and Liliana Lewinska, and she also took 6th place in the clubs and ball finals. [16] Later in April, she competed at the Baku World Cup and took 9th place in the all-around. In the apparatus finals, she was 4th with hoop and 7th with clubs. On 9-11 May, she competed at the World Challenge Cup Portimão and won the silver medal in the all-around behind Alina Harnasko. She also won two additional silver medals in the clubs and ball finals. [17]
At the 2025 Pan American Championships in June, she won gold in the all-around. She also won the gold medal in the team competition together with Megan Chu and three more individual medals in the apparatus finals: gold with ball and clubs and silver with ribbon. [18] On June 20-22, Keys competed at the USA National Championships and won gold in the all-around. [19] In July, she competed at the Milan World Cup, where she took 12th place in the all-around and advanced to the ribbon final, finishing 8th. [20] On July 25-27, she competed at the Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and finished 8th in the all-around. She won the silver medal in ribbon and took 7th place in the ball final. [21]
In August, she made her World Championships debut in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she took 6th place in all-around qualifications and qualified to three apparatus finals. [22] She ended in 7th place in the all-around final, the best all-around Worlds finish for a U.S. athlete since Laura Zeng at the 2017 World Championships (6th). [23] Together with Megan Chu and senior group, she finished in 12th place in the team competition. In the event finals, she won an historic silver medal in the ball final, the first-ever world medal won by gymnast from the Americas. She also finished 4th in the hoop final and 5th in the ribbon final. [24]
