Samantha Shapiro
Samantha Shapiro | |||||||||||||||
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Nickname(s) | Sami | ||||||||||||||
Country represented | USA) | ||||||||||||||
Club | All Olympia Gymnastics Center | ||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford Cardinal | ||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Kristen Smyth | ||||||||||||||
Assistant coach(es) | Chris Swircek | ||||||||||||||
Former coach(es) | Galina Marinova Artur Akopyan | ||||||||||||||
Music | "Telephone (Radio Edit)" (2013) | ||||||||||||||
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Samantha "Sami" Shapiro (born May 18, 1993) is an American gymnast. She is a five-time member of the
Personal life
Shapiro was born in Santa Monica, California, to Brent (a former wrestler and marathon runner) and Abbe (a former national champion baton twirler) Shapiro, and is Jewish.[3][2][4] Her younger sister, Nicki, is also a gymnast, and a 15-time State champion.[2][5]
Shapiro attended Windward School in Los Angeles, and graduated in June 2011.[6]
Gymnastics
She began gymnastics in 1996 through a preschool program when she was three years old.[2] Though she was competing at an international level in 2008 and was a top-ranked junior national team member, she was 5 months too young to be eligible for the US Team competing in gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[4][7]
She trains at the All Olympia Gymnastics Center (AOGC) in Los Angeles with fellow National Team member Mattie Larson.[4]
Junior career
Shapiro won 10
Shapiro first qualified for Junior International Elite in 2006 at age 13, when she finished 4th All-Around at the US Classic in
In 2008, she returned to the
Senior career
Shapiro was a three-time U.S. senior elite national champion, a senior US Women's National Gymnastics Team member from 2006-11.[3]
In the fall of 2008, Shapiro competed in the
In March 2009, at 15 years of age she represented the US at the Montreal FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, where Shapiro sustained a broken foot in training but persevered to win gold on the uneven bars.[3][10]
Injuries, including an ankle injury in 2009, kept Shapiro from competing for most of 2009 and 2010, but she resurfaced as a Senior Elite in 2010, qualifying at the US Classic 4th on the balance beam and floor exercise.
In 2010 Shapiro announced her intention to commit to joining the Stanford University Gymnastics Team.[6]
In 2011, she appeared on the cover of Inside Gymnastics' "50 Most Photogenic" issue as a tribute to the artistry and grace Shapiro presented in her years as an international elite gymnast.[12]
NCAA career
Shapiro was the 2014
In 2011, Shapiro retired from elite level gymnastics to compete for the
As a sophomore in 2013, she earned academic honors including the NACGC Scholastic All-American honor for the second year
In Shapiro's junior year in 2014, she capped off a successful season at the
In Shapiro's senior year in 2015 she was second team All-American on bars, second team All-Pac-12 on bars, and Pac-12 All-Academic second team.[3]
Honors
In 2018 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[22]
References
- ^ "Samantha Shapiro". USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "USA Gymnastics | Samantha Shapiro". usagym.org.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Samantha Shapiro - Women's Gymnastics". Stanford University Athletics.
- ^ a b c "News". International Gymnast Magazine Online.
- ^ "Nicki Shapiro Rejoins UCLA Gymnastics Team". UCLA.
- ^ a b c "Olympic Hopeful, Windward's Sami Shapiro '11 Makes US Gymnastics Team, Commits to Stanford"
- ^ a b "Triple Twist Gym Blog: Samantha Shapiro | Worth It In The End". May 11, 2015.
- ^ "Samantha Shapiro - Floor Exercise - 2008 Pacific Rim Championships". USA Gymnastics/YouTube. Retrieved April 30, 2009.
- ^ "U.S. Takes Five Golds at Pan American Championships". International Gymnast. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
- ^ "World Cup Bars Champion Shapiro Interviews with USA Gymnastics". USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
- ^ "Sam Shapiro named to 2010 National Team". YouTube.
- ^ "And the Cover Goes To...", Inside Gymnastics.
- ^ "Samantha Shapiro Profile - Stanford University's Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^ "Newstrom helps Senior Day become a celebration". Palo Alto Online.
- ^ "Stanford Gymnasts Named Scholastic All-Americans". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
- ^ "Six Scholastic All-Americans". Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ "Seven Gymnasts Receive Pac-12 All-Academic Honors". Stanford University Athletics.
- ^ "Local sports digest: Stanford gymnasts excel at NCAA Championships". April 20, 2014.
- ^ "NCAA Championships Bound". Stanford University Athletics.
- ^ "Pac-12 names all-academic women's gymnastics teams". Pac-12.
- ^ "Pac-12 All-Conference Selections". Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ "SAMANTHA SHAPIRO; Gymnastics - 2018". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.