Kayla DiCello
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| Full name | Kayla DiCello | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Hometown | Boyds, Maryland USA | |||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Junior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2018-Present (US) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Hills Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Kelli Hill | |||||||||||||||||||
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Kayla DiCello is an American artistic gymnast and part of the United States women's national gymnastics team. She won the Junior all-around silver medal at the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships and the 2018 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships.
Personal life
DiCello was born to Matt and Kecia DiCello in 2004, and has three siblings, two sisters named Karleigh and Kyra and a brother named Hunter. She began gymnastics when she was two.[1]
Junior career
2016 - 2017
DiCello was a HOPES gymnast in 2016 and became junior elite in 2017.
2018
DiCello was officially added to the junior national team after she was named to the team to compete at the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships.[2] There she won gold in the team, vault, and uneven bars and silver in the all-around behind Jordan Bowers. She finished 4th on balance beam.[3] In early July, DiCello competed at the American Classic where she finished first in the all-around with a score of 55.400, posting the highest score of the competition amongst both juniors and seniors. She also finished first on vault and balance beam, second on floor, and third on uneven bars.[4] On July 28, DiCello competed at the 2018 U.S. Classic where she finished second behind Leanne Wong after falling off the balance beam.[5]
With her placements at these three competitions, DiCello entered the August 2018 U.S. National Championships in Boston as one of the favorites for the Junior national title along with Wong, Bowers, and Sunisa Lee. After two days of competition in which she tallied an impressive score of 111.200, DiCello won the silver medal in the all-around competition, once again behind Wong.[6] She performed well on both days of the competition and was the only junior gymnast to score in the top four on all four individual events: fourth on balance beam, third on uneven bars and floor exercise, and first on vault, where she stuck her double-twisting Yurchenko vault on the second day of competition to edge out Wong, the defending champion on the event.[7] After her performance, she was once again named to the national team.[8]
Competitive history
Junior
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2016 | Hopes Championships | 4 | 6 |  | |||
| 2017 | U.S. Classic | 26 | 19 | 29 | 21 | 15 | |
| P&G National Championships | 13 | 12 | 7 | 28 | 10 | ||
| 2018 | Pacific Rim Championships | |  | | | 4 | |
| American Classic | | |  | | | ||
| U.S. Classic | | | | 28 | | ||
| U.S. National Championships | | | | 4 | |
References
- ↑ "Kayla DiCello". usagym.org. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
- ↑ "USA Gymnastics names women's 2018 Pac Rim, Junior Pan Am Championships Teams". USA Gymnastics. April 10, 2018.
- ↑ "USA brings home 29 medals from men's, women's individual event finals". USA Gymnastics. April 29, 2018.
- ↑ "Jones, DiCello win all-around titles at 2018 American Classic today". USA Gymnastics. July 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Biles, Wong win all-around titles at 2018 GK U.S. Classic". USA Gymnastics. July 28, 2018.
- ↑ "2018 U.S. Championships Results, Recaps, Photos, Videos". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
- ↑ USA Gymnastics (2018-08-19), Kayla Di Cello - Vault – 2018 U.S. Gymnastics Championships – Junior Women Day 2, retrieved 2018-09-02
- ↑ "USA Gymnastics | Women's Artistic Gymnastics National Team". usagym.org. Retrieved 2018-09-02.