College Park Tumbleweeds Gymnastics

Gabrielle Douglas is a US women’s artistic gymnast and Olympian. At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in both the Team and Individual All-Around competitions. Did you know that Gabrielle is the first woman of color and the first African-American gymnast in Olympic history to become the Individual All-Around Champion? She is also the first American gymnast to win gold in both the Individual All-Around and Team competitions at the same Olympic Games! After wi...nning these titles, Gabrielle and her teammates huddled together and cheered, we are the final five; as of 2020, Olympic gymnastics teams will only feature four gymnasts. In an interview, she stated: I’m so thrilled with what our team achieved today and I’m delighted to be going home with another medal for our country! Followed by over a million people on Facebook and Twitter, Douglas will always be an inspiration to gymnasts everywhere #Gymnastics #CPGTumbleweeds #CollegeParkGymnastics #CityofCollegePark #BlackHistoryMonth #GabrielleDouglas

Meet Sophina Dejesus! She competed for the UCLA Bruins’ Gymnastics Team from 2012 to her graduation in 2016 Before starting college, Sophia was a 2009 US National Team Member. During her freshman year in 2012-2013, she won PAC-12 Freshman of the Week twice. She was also a three-time All-American on bars and a three-time USA Championships competitor! #Gymnastics #CPGTumbleweeds #CollegeParkGymnastics #CityofCollegePark #BlackHistoryMonth #SophinaDejesus

Ashley Miles Greig is a force to be reckoned with! She led Alabama to four top-3 NCAA finishes, including runner-up finishes in 2003 and 2005. She also scored a 9.975 on her 2003 SEC floor exercise in the last routine of the meet. Ashley is a 12-time All-American and earned the Honda Award her senior year (given on an annual basis to the nation's top gymnast). Before receiving the Honda Award, she won 20 postseason titles (you read that right!), including six SEC championshi...ps, four NCAA titles, and 10 NCAA regional titles. As a senior, she became the second gymnast in NCAA history to win three national vault titles and the first in SEC history to win four consecutive floor titles. Ashley was also the 2006 NCAA Central Region Gymnast of the Year and won 10 regional titles, including four consecutive on vault and floor exercises. She even earned SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades and a place in XXXI, The University of Alabama's elite women's honor society! Check out these clips of Ashley’s vault and floor routines #Gymnastics #CPGTumbleweeds #CollegeParkGymnastics #CityofCollegePark #BlackHistoryMonth #AshleyMilesGreig

Meet Andree Pickens! As a 16-year-old, she was invited to the Olympic Trials but unfortunately did not make the team. A few years later, however, she made the 1996 team and competed in the Atlanta Olympic Games! In the fall of 1998, Andree became one of the most decorated collegiate gymnasts in history at the University of Alabama. As a freshman in 1999, she became the NCAA Champion on the balance beam, was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman Gymnast of the Year and wa...s the first freshman in NCAA history to earn five All-American Honors. She continued to win SEC Gymnast of the Year in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 - she became the only gymnast in SEC history to win the league’s top honors all four years of her collegiate career. To end her time in college, she won the Honda-Broderick Award for gymnastics (awarded to the top national performer) and gave the keynote address on behalf of all the top female athletes in NCAA competition that year. Clearly an inspiration to gymnasts everywhere, she has an impressive legacy that is hard to compete with! Check out this video of some of Andree’s routines #Gymnastics #CPGTumbleweeds #CollegeParkGymnastics #CityofCollegePark #BlackHistoryMonth #AndreePickens

Join us THIS SATURDAY (February 27th, 2021) to watch the College Park Tumbleweeds’ last home meet of the season - our annual 65 Roses Invitational for Cystic Fibrosis! Due to COVID-19, we are unable to invite everyone to watch this competition in-person. Instead, we are offering an option to watch via Zoom at the comfort of your own home To purchase Zoom access, please use this link: https://app.iclasspro.com//collegeparktum/camp-details/20... The above link is to pay for access to the 65 Roses Invitational ($12 per household) via iClassPro, which allow you to watch the gymnasts perform virtually. Once you receive confirmation of payment from an iClassPro email, there will be an email sent from [email protected] to your email address on file to register for access to the Zoom. In this second email, you will receive the direct link for the Zoom. Please allow up to 24 hours to receive any of the above emails! Purchase of this link includes viewing of all events: Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor and the Scoreboard! It also includes access to 3 competition sessions which are as follows: Session 1: 9:00 AAU Level 2 and XCEL Bronze Session 2: 11:00 AAU Levels 3/4 and Silver/Gold Session 3: 1:45 USA Silver/Gold and Levels 4, 5, 6, and 8 The goal of this meet is to spread awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and generate donations for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation! This foundation has developed profound CF research and is helping individuals with the disease live fuller and healthier lives. Please consider donating using the following link: https://passion.cff.org/65-roses-invitational-gymnastic-meet Thank you in advance for any contributions to our 65 Roses Invitational - you are helping the lives of those with Cystic Fibrosis *The iClassPro link above is NOT the same log in for class registration* **If you have ever attended a Tumbleweeds Camp or registered for Tumbleweed Olympics, your login will be the same as before; please attempt the forgot password option if you are having issues logging in** ***Please consider any old email addresses used to create a past account BEFORE creating a new one*** #Gymnastics #CPGTumbleweeds #CollegeParkGymnastics #CityofCollegePark #65RosesInvitational #CysticFibrosisAwareness

Get to know Darian Burns! Darian was a member of the College Park Tumbleweeds Gymnastics Team from 2009-2013. During her time at CPG, she earned a place at the USAG State Championships at every level she competed in. From a young age, she displayed a tremendous amount of talent in the sport! Darian actively gives back to the CPG program by coaching and mentoring young gymnasts during her summers. To Darian, the Tumbleweeds are family, and we love having her at the gym to plau...dit her accomplishments. She has become a wonderful inspiration to all of the CPG gymnasts! Darian graduated Druid Hills High School in 2016 and received both academic and athletic scholarships to Seattle Pacific University. They asked her to compete on the SPU Gymnastics Team, and after officially committing, she began her rigorous training. The result of her hard work was tremendous; in 2017, she was named the USAG National Floor Champion and the MPSF Conference Freshman of the Week. Most notably, she was deservedly awarded SPU Athlete of the Year. She continued to excel throughout the rest of her college career by racking up an impressive amount of accomplishments. She received 14 All-American awards, 13 MSP awards, 23 career event wins, 8 career all-around wins, 3 MPSF All-American academic honors and 3 SPU Athlete of the Year awards. With two National Titles, Darian is considered one of the most impressive gymnasts to have competed at SPU. She accomplished all of this while continuing to be an extraordinary role model for young gymnasts who emulate and aspire to compete at the same level of athletic and academic greatness that she did She began the Darian Burns Scholarship and recently named its first recipient: Kennedy Brown! #CollegeParkTumbleweeds #CollegeParkGymnastics #SeattlePacificGymnastics #DarianBurnsScholarship

Dianne Durham was the first female African-American gymnast to win a USA All-Around Championship! She won this title two times as a junior and one time as a senior gymnast. Unfortunately, she did not qualify for the 1984 Olympic team due to an injury she suffered at the Olympic Trials. However, Dianne was a pioneer in gymnastics who helped pave the way for future African-American gymnasts such as Betty Okino, Dominique Dawes, Gabrielle Douglas and Simone Biles! Check out this video featuring some of her most iconic routines #BlackHistoryMonth #DianneDurham #Gymnastics

Luci Collins made history by becoming the first Black female gymnast to make an Olympic Gymnastics Team in 1980! Check out this video of her performing one of her bar routines #BlackHistoryMonth #Olympics1980 #Gymnastics

Today we are celebrating James Kanati Allen, who was the first black gymnast to be named in an Olympic team in 1968! #BlackHistoryMonth #Olympics1968 #Gymnastics

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