Norah Flatley

Norah Flatley
Personal information
Full name Norah Irene Flatley
Country represented  United States
Born (2000-03-10) 10 March 2000
San Diego, California, United States
Hometown Cumming, Iowa, United States
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Junior International Elite
Years on national team 2013–15 (US)
Club Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute
College team UCLA Bruins
(Class of 2022)
Head coach(es) Liang Chow
Choreographer Dominic Zito
Retired July 21, 2017 (elite)
Medal record

[1]

Representing  United States
Pacific Rim Championships
2014 RichmondTeam
2014 RichmondBeam
2014 RichmondAll Around
U.S. National Championships
2013 HartfordBeam
2014 PittsburghUneven Bars[2]
2014 PittsburghAll Around[3]
U.S. Classic
2013 ChicagoBeam
2014 ChicagoBeam
2014 ChicagoAll Around
City of Jesolo Trophy
2015Team
2015Beam
2014Team
2014Beam
2015All Around
2015Uneven Bars
2014All Around

Norah Irene Flatley (born March 10, 2000 in San Diego, California) is an American artistic gymnast. A prodigious junior, she retired from elite gymnastics before her senior debut.

Early life

Norah Irene Flatley was born on March 10, 2000 in San Diego to Terrence P. Flatley and Ann McKenzie. The youngest of four children, Norah has an older brother, Jake and she has two sisters, Kyla and Anna; an Elementary Education major[4] at Iowa State University.[5]

One of Norah's sisters, Anna, was a competitive gymnast,[6] and at the age of four, Norah wanted to join her. Thus, she enrolled in gymnastics classes at Salto Gymnastics in Wisconsin. Naturally gifted, Flatley made both the 2007 and 2009 National TOPs teams.[7][8] In 2010, Flatley was both Level 8 State (WI) and Regional (4) champion for her age category.[9][10] In the summer of 2010, her family relocated to Cumming, Iowa, in order for Norah to train under the tutelage of Liang Chow, the former coach of 2008 Olympic balance beam champion Shawn Johnson.[11] A year later, in 2011, she was crowned Level 9 Regional Champion.[12] At her first Level 9 Western Championships – at the age of eleven, Flatley was crowned the individual champion in the all-around, on beam and floor.[13]

Gymnastics career

Flatley before her beam routine at the 2014 City of Jesolo Trophy.

2012: Level 10 career

Flatley moved up to Level 10 for the 2012 competitive season. She was State champion,[14] and was second at Regionals.[15] In May, she participated in her first ever J.O. Nationals – held in Hampton, Virginia.[16] She tied for third in the all-around with Chow's club teammate Alexis Vasquez, and Southeastern gymnast Grace Glenn.[17] However, she won the balance beam title with a score of 9.725.[18]

2013–present: Junior International Elite career

2013

Flatley qualified to Junior International Elite status with no previous Hopes or Pre-Elite experience. She qualified to the U.S. Classic in Chicago, IL taking home 4th place all-around and a beam gold, her all-around score being 56.500. Flatley accumulated the highest beam score (15.2) of the meet within both senior and junior divisions. [19] At the National Championships, Norah accumulated a two-day all-around score of 112.400, managing 5th place all-around. She won a silver on beam and posted the highest all around score of a first year junior for the meet.[20] Following her impressive performance, Flatley was named to the U.S Junior national team.

2014

Flatley made her international debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy competition in Jesolo, Italy. She took home 2 gold and 1 bronze. She competed at the Pacific Rim Championships in April in Richmond, Canada, and she won two gold medals. At the 2014 Secret US Classic, Flatley placed third in the all-around, tied with Deanne Soza.[21] She won bars at junior national championships.

2015

Flatley will compete her last year as a Junior International Elite in the 2015 season. At the 2015 City of Jesolo Trophy, she took home 2 gold (Team and Balance Beam) and 2 silver (All Around and Uneven Bars).

Due to a foot injury, Flatley missed the U.S. Classic and the U.S. National Championships.[22]

On October 7, 2015, she announced her verbal commitment to the UCLA Bruins gymnastics program, through her Instagram account.[23] She had previously visited the school.[24]

2016–present: Retirement from elite and Level 10

Flatley was set for her Senior International debut in 2016 but withdrew from all competitions for reason of injury. On July 21, 2017, she announced her retirement from elite gymnastics and announced plans to move down to Level 10 for the 2018 season.[25]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0XfMBFKQk/?taken-by=norah_flatley&hl=en
  2. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_14champs_jrevents.pdf
  3. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_14champs_jraa.pdf
  4. ↑ http://iastate.meritpages.com/achievements/College-of-Human-Sciences-incoming-student-scholarship-recipients-announced-/42235
  5. ↑ http://meritpages.com/Anna-Flatley/2907288
  6. ↑ http://www.mymeetscores.com/gymnast.pl?gymnastid=175848
  7. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Women/TOPs/History/2007_TOPS-National_Team.pdf
  8. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Women/TOPs/History/2009_TOPS-National_Team.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.mymeetscores.com/meet.pl?meetid=16063816&pb=N&session=All%20Sessions%20Combined&level=8&division=10%26under&gymnastid=241861
  10. ↑ http://www.mymeetscores.com/meet.pl?meetid=16063848&pb=N&session=Multiple%20Sessions%20Combined&level=8&division=Super8Jr&gymnastid=241861
  11. ↑ http://www.gymnastike.org/coverage/251400-2014-City-of-Jesolo-Cup/blog/47131-2016-Olympic-Hopeful-Norah-Flatley-Set-for-International-Debut
  12. ↑ http://www.mymeetscores.com/meet.pl?meetid=16065106&session=Multiple%20Sessions%20Combined&level=9&division=9JRA&gymnastid=241861
  13. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_11western_jrind.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.mymeetscores.com/meet.pl?meetid=16066218&session=4&level=10&division=11-12&gymnastid=241861
  15. ↑ http://www.mymeetscores.com/meet.pl?meetid=16066251&session=1&level=10&division=JuniorA&gymnastid=241861
  16. ↑ https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=10052&prog=h
  17. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_12jo_jra.pdf
  18. ↑ https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=10078&prog=h
  19. ↑ "2013 Secret U.S. Classic Meet Results" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics. 27 July 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  20. ↑ "2013 P&G Championships - Women Day 2" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics. 17 August 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  21. ↑ "2014 Secret U.S. Classic" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  22. ↑ Logue, Andrew. "Sore foot keeps Norah Flatley out of P&G Championships." Des Moines Register, August 10, 2015 (accessed September 21, 2015) http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/2015/08/10/norah-flatley-pg-championships-usa-gymnastics-liang-chow/31421931/
  23. ↑ https://instagram.com/p/8mTzympSEi/?taken-by=norah_flatley
  24. ↑ https://twitter.com/TripleTwistGym/status/650069575359430656
  25. ↑ https://thegymter.net/2017/07/21/flatley-ends-elite-career/
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