Katelyn Ohashi

About

Katelyn Michelle Ohashi (born April 12, 1997) is an American gymnast who competed for the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a six-time All-American and a four-time member of USA Gymnastics’ Junior National Team. She was the 2011 junior national champion and won the 2013 American Cup. Noted for incorporating popular dance elements in her floor routines, she trended globally on various social media networks in January 2019 for her perfect 10 score at the 2019 Collegiate Challenge, the fourth perfect-10 floor routine of her career.

Ohashi was born in Seattle, Washington, to Richard and Diana Ohashi, the latter a former high-school gymnast. She has three older brothers, Ryan, Kyle, and Kalen, and is of German and Japanese descent.
Ohashi started gymnastics at age 3. To support her gymnastics training, Ohashi moved in 2006 to Kansas City, Missouri, with her mother and the youngest of her brothers; three years later, they moved to Plano, Texas.
She attended Spring Creek Academy, then graduated from Plano Senior High School in 2015. In the fall of 2015, she began attending the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in gender studies…