Английская Википедия:Aimee Boorman
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Aimee Boorman (born Aimee Banghart; March 27, 1973) is an American artistic gymnastics coach. She coached 2016 Olympic champion and 2013-2015 world champion Simone Biles. She was the USA women's gymnastics team head coach at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Шаблон:Asof, she serves as an assistant coach for the Netherlands' women's gymnastic team.[1]
Early life
Aimee Boorman was born and raised by a single mother in the Rogers Park area of Chicago. She began gymnastics classes with the Chicago Park District at age 6.[2] To help earn money at age 13, she started coaching at the Lakeshore Gymnastics Club. She attended Lane Technical High School, which had a strong gymnastics program, where she excelled in floor exercises, winning the city championship in that event as a freshman.[3][2]
She realized she would not become an Olympic gymnast herself, but she considered continuing in the sport as a coach.[3] In college at Northern Illinois University she became a member of the social sorority Delta Phi Epsilon.[4] While at first reluctant to continue coaching and pursue a degree, she missed the sport and took a part-time coaching position. She graduated with a business degree related to sports management in 1995.[5] That same year, when her friend had interviews in Houston, she went along on a whim and lined up interviews for herself. She was offered a coaching job.[3]
Coaching career
Boorman's first coaching job in Texas was at Cypress Academy of Gymnastics located in Houston.[3] Boorman started working at Bannon's Gymnastix in 1996. She began coaching Simone Biles in 2005, when Biles was eight years old.[6] Biles rose to prominence in 2013 after becoming U.S. national champion and world all-around champion in her senior debut.
Boorman was the head coach at Bannon's, where Biles trained under her, until 2014, when they both left.[7][8] She and Biles temporarily trained at AIM Athletics in The Woodlands, Texas, until Biles' parents' new gymnastics facility, World Champions Centre, opened.[9] The facility is located in Spring, Texas, and Boorman was the team manager and head coach.[10]
Boorman was named head coach of the United States women gymnastics team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[11]
Post-Olympics, she left World Champions Centre and took the executive director position at Evo Athletics in Sarasota, FL.[12]
Personal life
Boorman was raised in Chicago and resides in Florida. Boorman married husband James in 2000.[3] Together the couple has three children.[13][3]
References
External links
- Aimee Boorman at World Champion Centre
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