June 9, 2000
Laurie Hernandez was born on June 9, 2000 at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Jersey.
Timeline of Laurie Hernandez
This is a timeline about the very talented Olympic US gymnast, Laurie Hernandez, based on her autobiography, I Got This- To Gold and Beyond.
Laurie Hernandez's Early Life
2005
Laurie Hernandez started gymnastics lessons at age 5, after stopping ballet
2006
Her first ever gymnast competition, on a non-competitive level at 6 years old.
2007-2009
Laurie Hernandez started competing at Level 4 with her coach, Maggie Haney when she was 7 years old! She stayed with the same group through level 5 and level 6 gymnastics. Her coach had never trained an elite gymnast before, so she went to USA gymnastics' Talent Opportunity program. She did really good at the National TOPs test, and then she was invited to participate in in the TOPs training camp for perfecting skills in Texas.
2010
At around 10 years old, Laurie Hernandez stopped going to a real school and started homeschooling. She used a distance-learning Christian curriculum that teaches through high school. She liked writing. It allowed her to learn at her own pace, and that was good because she had a crazy schedule with all of her gymnastics.
2012
She began competing regularly on junior elite level at age 12. Her very first level 10 gymnastics competition was the Secret US Classic.
2012
She was invited to train at USA Gymnastics National Team Training Camp.
2013
Her first meet in the year of 2013 was the WOGA classic. She placed second in the all around. She was also in the American Classic. She placed first on floor, second on all-around, and then she was in 3rd on beam and vault. She was added to USA Gymnastics Junior Team in early July.
She went to the P&G Championships again. She hit every event (did everything in her routine perfectly.)
She won silver in the junior all-around competition.
2013
She also went to the Japan Junior International in Yokohama, and won Bronze in the all-around. Later in 2013, she traveled to the Junior Mexican Cup, which took place in Acapulco. It was a very big competition, and her coach was there, and she even met an amazing olympic gymnast, Nadia Comaneci while she was there.
2014
In early 2014, Laurie hurt her wrist, then she also hurt her knee when she was training in Texas because she landed wrong. She dislocated her knee, tore her patella ligament, and a bruised MCL. But she still got better and got back to doing gymnastics.
2015
Laurie Hernandez became part of the US team. She was all around champion at the City of Jesolo Trophy. She did went to many other meets that she did amazing in during 2015, including the International Junior Japan Meet.
2016
She got early acceptance into the University of Florida because of her talent. She LATER gave up her scholarship.
Olympics
2016
Laurie Hernandez went to the 2016 Rio Olympics at only 16 years old! They named their team the Final Five. The Final FIve did amazing!!!
2016
The USA Olympic Gymnastics team (or the Final Five) got First Place!
2016
Laurie got the silver medal at the OLYMPICS for beam.
Dancing with the Stars
August 30, 2016
Laurie was announced to be going on Dancing with the stars. Her partner was Valentin Chmerkovskiy.
November 22, 2016
Laurie Hernandez and her partner WIN the mirror ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars!