NAME: Alicia Sacramone

SPORT: Gymnastics (artistic)

CLUB: Brestyan’s American Gymnastics

SCHOOL: Brown University 

OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE: 2008

OLYMPIC MEDALS: silver (team)

 
PERSONAL NOTES: She competed for Brown during her freshman year and set school records in all-around and vault. She’s currently sponsored by Visa.
 
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
  • 2010 World Championships vault champion and team silver medalist.
  • Nine World medals (three gold, four silver and two bronze); tied her with Shannon Miller and Nastia Liukin for the most World medals by an American gymnast.
  • 2008 Olympic Team silver medalist.
  • 2007 World team gold medalist, floor exercise silver medalist and vault bronze medalist.
  • 2006 World team and vault silver medalist
  • 2005 World floor exercise gold medalist and vault bronze medalist.
  • Has five U.S. vault titles (2005-08, 2010), the most in U.S. women's history. Two U.S. floor exercise crowns (2005-06).
  • USA Gymnastics' Sportswoman of the Year three times (2005-07).
  • Scored a 9.9 on floor exercise at the 2005 Visa Championships, the first time a score of 9.9 or better had been awarded in the women's division at a U.S. Nationals since 1996.
  • In 2004, qualified for the World Cup Final as a wild card and won the vault gold medal.
  • Competed on the Brown University gymnastics team during her freshman year and set school records in the all-around, vault and became the first gymnast to win all five events at the Ivy League Classic. Alicia is currently sponsored by Visa.