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Courtney McCool
- 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the women's team competition
- 2004 Olympic Team Trials, 2nd in all-around
- 2004 Athens Test Event, 1st in all-around
- 2003 Pan American Games, 1st-team
- Coached by Al Fong and Armine Barutyan-Fong, a former Soviet National team member from Armenia.
- Will be a junior Lee Summit North High School this fall. (an honor roll student.)
- Drives a 1992 Toyota Corolla, a 16th birthday gift from her mother. Although she has obtained her driver’s license, she needs a pillow to see over the steering wheel
- First year on Senior National team
- Lives with mother Linda, a special education teacher and younger sister Megan, a competitive dancer in an apartment while her father, Mike an interior designer and older brother Michael, live nearby
- Father was a diver for Central Missouri State in the early 1970s
- Favorite event is beam (her routine has a 10.0 start value.)
- After watching her compete on beam at the Olympic Trials, Olympic medallist Shannon Miller said, "I feel like you could go up and push her and she wouldn't budge. She's that solid.”
- Is known for her consistency and body alignment.
“Everyone is saying Courtney has ‘come out of nowhere,’ but this has been an organized plan that we’ve been developing for years,” said Coach Al Fong. Courtney was age eligible to compete as a senior last summer (and could have possibly been a member of the gold-medal winning 2003 World Championships Team,) but she and her coaches decided it was best to be at the top of the junior rankings rather than in the pack of the highly-competitive senior division.
Related Links
Photo gallery: Post-Olympics: Ballgames, award shows and more
Photo gallery: 2004 Olympic gymnastic trials
Official Web site: Courtney McCool
“I set very high goals for myself, but no so high that I can’t make them. I believed in myself. I believed in my coach (Armine Barutyan Fong), and it really helped having her there to support me. If I didn’t have her, I don’t think I could have made it through ... I know that if I get the chance to go out there and compete for my country, it’s a great honor…I can’t really explain it, but it’s so intense, so exciting, to the point that there are just no words for it.”
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Height: 4'9"
Born: 01-Apr-88
Hometown: Kansas City, MO
Resides: Lees Summit, MO
Sport: Gymnastics
Event: Artistic gymnastics
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