Podcast appearances and mentions of carly wopat

Live from Dallas Texas. 3 days at the DEKA World Champs. You will hear from: Friday: Nick Ryker, Matt Stankiewitch, Dr. Alandra Greenlee, Kelly Sullivan, Ryan Kent, JayFit, Rob Porter, Terra Jackson, and Rylan Schadegg. Saturday: Camilla Massa, Terra, Michelle Navaro, Jack Bauer and Ashley Reis. Sunday: Alex Walker, Carly Wopat, Cheryl Snow, Camilla, and Kevin Gregory Sponsor Mention: We're grateful to Resolute Coffee for sponsoring this episode and introducing their brand-new CRUSHIT Monthly Club! Members are treated to a unique “Crush Shit Daily” mug and a selection of four five-ounce coffee bags, each showcasing distinctive processing methods and a diverse range of varietals. Use code HFM1 for 20 percent off at checkout right now. Connect & Support: Follow Hybrid Fitness Media on IG. Athletes Instagram Links: @mattstankiewitch @dr.alandragreenlee @carlywopat @nryker5 @rylanschadegg @dr0p_the_hammer @bubblestheclowne @cherylpsnow @ashley_e_reis @camillamassa.athlete @terranovatrainerr @michelle_rose_navarro @alexandra_tx_ranger @jack_bauer_ocr @kellysully21 You can support Hybrid Fitness Media with this link. Listen at the top of the page or hit this link for your favorite podcast player

Live from the Navy Pier in Chicago. We spoke with all podium athletes and more from the first-ever HYROX Major. You will hear from: 1st place Ryan Kent and Megan Jacoby 2nd place Rylan Schadegg and Lauren Weeks 3rd place Alex Roncevic and Linda Meier plus Vivian Tafuto, Rich Ryan, Carly Wopat, and Anthony Peressini. Sponsor Mention: We're grateful to Resolute Coffee for sponsoring this episode and introducing their brand-new CRUSHIT Monthly Club! Members are treated to a unique "Crush Shit Daily" mug and a selection of four five-ounce coffee bags, each showcasing distinctive processing methods and a diverse range of varietals. Use code HFM1 for 20 percent off at checkout right now. Connect & Support: Follow Hybrid Fitness Media on IG. You can support Hybrid Fitness Media with this link. Listen on your favorite podcast player.

Interviews live on-site from the first-ever Ultimate Alpha Warrior competition. We spoke with Rylan Schadegg, Jarrett Newby, Noah Palicia, Veejay Jones, Ryan Kent, Stephanie Williams, Meg Jacoby, Tiffanie Sawatzke, Kris Rugloski, Carly Wopat, and Chad from Alpha Warrior. Our article recap which includes all obstacles and workout stations can be found here. Special thanks to today's sponsor – Resolute Coffee. “Resolute is born from a love of coffee and belief in the human spirit.” Go check them out now on Instagram or their website. Follow Hybrid Fitness Media on IG. You can support Hybrid Fitness Media with this link. Listen now on your favorite podcast player.

Live interviews from DEKA Philly last weekend featuring: DEKA MC Jeff Barton, Meg Jacoby, Amber Tait, Karen Guidry, Carly Wopat, Dylan Scott, Nick Ryker, Rich Ryan, Kevin Gregory, Dave Claxton, and Matt Kemp. Follow Hybrid Fitness Media on IG. You can support us with this link. Listen at the top of the page or hit this link for your favorite podcast  

Nobody cares what you can do fresh. The GORUCK Games takes grit, endurance and a willingness to run with a mouthful of water. Anything Special Forces are on the table. To close out the 2nd Annual Sandlot Jax and GORUCK Games, Fran Racioppi and Jessie Graff dive into this two-part episode explaining all things GORUCK Games with the GORUCK founders that created them and the 2023 Champions who tackled the event head on. GORUCK Founders Jason and Emily McCarthy, as well as Sandlot Technology Founder B.J. Naedele share the theory behind the games, the savage thought-process they took to design the events and why camaraderie is fostered through military-inspired training and a few fist bumps. In the second part, 2023 Champions Carly Wopat and Matt Kempson shut down the games as they recap their personal journeys that included a 100 lb ruck run, false finishes, knot tying, hand-to-hand combat, and moving 3000 lbs of sandbags. Carly shares her career as a professional beach volleyball player and a firefighter, while Matt explains how building the foundation to his house was the key to winning the final event. Learn more about Carly Wopat, Matt Kempson and the GORUCK Games. Read the full episode transcription here and learn more on The Jedburgh Podcast Website. Subscribe to us and follow @jedburghpodcast on all social media. Watch the full video version on YouTube. Highlights:0:00 Welcome to the 2023 GORUCK Games Finals2:01 All Special Forces training is fair game5:38 Making the GORUCK Games grittier while welcoming the masses8:46 The Sandlot App and the dehumanization of social media 15:33 Defining the “Fist Bump”21:42 The hidden gem of the FitTalks 29:34 What to expect at the GORUCK Games Finals34:15 Who is Carly Wopat? Volleyball player, firefighter, athlete40:21 Matt Kempson leaves a legacy with knots45:38 GORUCK Games events explained56:57 Can you run with a mouthful of water, fight and hold sandbags?1:12:04 Coming back next year? Quotes: “Anything that they would train us to do in Special Forces is fair game.” (2:24) “What's a fist bump worth? That's what you do with your friends.“ (11:09) “Everyone was probably like ok this volleyball girl is gonna tap out on the first endurance race.” (35:36) “There's a big difference between 3rd and 1st…I was on a mission.” (42:17) “I can't not do my best.” (49:44) “I can't control how he's gonna do. I can only control how I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna go until I die.” (1:00:00)This episode is brought to you by Jersey Mike's, Compass Workforce Solutions and GORUCK.

Carly Wopat is a professional volleyball player, firefighter and one of the fittest women on earth. We discuss her early life, her journey into elite sports, losing her twin sister at 19, navigating grief, strength and condtioning for the tactical athlete, her path into the fire service, the negative impact of sleep deprivation on performance, the GORUCK Games and so much more.

In this episode, we talk about the upcoming DEKAFIT Northeast in Oaks, PA. We touch on the DEKAFIT debut of Meg Jacoby and Carly Wopat. Plus the first race of the season for Vivian Tufuto and Alnadra Greenly. The men's race has 4 returning top 12 athletes, which will be a battle. Support our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/racebrain

OFX EPISOD 139: HYBRID BEAST CARLY WOPAT. Brought to you by Duonamic. Many women in the Hybrid world are taking notice, and that's because as the winner of the GRUCK games and the new Deka Strong record holder, Carly Wopat has given them no choice.

Carly Wopat joins the podcast today with a background of being a: Pro Athlete, Go Ruck Champion, Deka Strong World Record Holder and Fire Fighter.To train like Hunter you can find more information on his website: HAOSTraining.comBLDR Sports:https://bldrsports.comLinktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/huntthesheriffBOA Link Code: HUNTER20https://glnk.io/nrpw4/hunterFollow me on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/H.McIntyreInstagram - https://instagram.com/huntthesheriff

We were at this past weekend's Battle Bunker West Regional event at Alpha Warrior in San Antonio, TX. We caught up with Carly Wopat, Calypso Sheridan, Lauren Weeks, Isaiah Vidal, Chris Balvern, Kara Mobly, Monique Mcreanor, Tyler Davis, Samantha "Moose" Faddis, Jordan Woodvine, Derek Diaz, Mike Brown, Brittany Bangert, Kendall Guidetti, Jake Gibbs, Kaila Marshall, and Lauren Rantala. Check out Battle Bunker results here. Follow Hybrid Fitness Media on IG. Listen on your favorite podcast player. You can support us with this link.

3 Gals From The GORUCK Games join us today. 6th place Cali Schweikhart, 2nd place Calypso Sheridan, and 1st place Carly Wopat. We talk about their favorite events, biggest mistakes, and best takeaways from the weekend. GORUCK Games Leaderboard can be found here. Today's sponsor is Organifi. We've got our own landing page where you can get 20 percent off ALL their amazing superfoods. Go to organifi.com/ORM and see some of our favorites products. You can listen to the podcast here. Support us on Patreon. All other ORM Links. Intro  Music – Paul B. Outro Music – Brian Revels All photos courtesy GORUCK photographer Dan Sell.

Today's guest on Steps is Carly Wopat (INSTAGRAM) Carly is currently a Professional beach volleyball athlete who got her start on the indoor side of the game. In our chat we discuss her journey from an early age and her recruitment to Stanford. While at Stanford Carly suffered the loss of her twin sister, Sam. We talk about this moment in her life and how it affected her, along with how it has shaped her view on how she lives her life. We also dig in on the transition from Indoor to beach volleyball and how the dream of being a firefighter became a goal that became her reality. A quick note, during this episode we speak on the topic of suicide. f you need assistance, please find resources below. Emergency: 911 National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1- 800-799-7233 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) National Hopeline Network: 1-800-SUICIDE (800-784-2433) Crisis Text Line: Text "DESERVE" TO 741-741 Self-Harm Hotline: 1-800-DONT CUT (1-800-366-8288) American Association of Poison Control Centers: 1-800-222-1222 National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependency Hope Line: 1-800-622-2255If you like what we are doing on Steps, please Rate, Follow and Subscribe. Be sure to let us know who you would like to have on as a guest, someone who's story needs to be told to the world.

Carly Wopat is an American professional beach volleyball player, entrepreneur, and most recently, a firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department. Picking up the game in her early childhood, she went on to becoming a two-time first-team all American at Stanford University for their women's indoor team. Her transition to the beach was near-seamless, with multiple top-ten finishes with the AVP and on the regional scenes, including a recent finals appearance at the "Motherlode" in Aspen, Colorado. Tune in, as we chat up her relation to Tom Wopat of "The Dukes of Hazard," he first time playing in the Motherlode tournament in Colorado, playing with Katie Spieler, cross-training in mixed martial arts, competing at beach volleyball venues in high altitude settings, understanding the mental game, mediating emotions, the importance of working through stressful patched on and off the court, romantic comedies, the process and training of being a firefighter, why beach volleyball is more "freeing," the reward of focusing on the work, and MORE! Also available on iTunes and Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Q8qrohEfC2Fb5rq4vKeg7?si=XV0nje0fQQuRRdmk7lpNCA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-150-carly-wopat/id1472687787?i=1000579664966

Tyler Hildebrand doesn’t really know what you should call him. “Official title is Director of Coaching,” he said of his new role at USA Volleyball. But they’re working on title changes because, candidly, nobody really knows what that means. “At the end of the day,” Hildebrand said on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, “who really cares? I think some people call it coach, head coach, director of coaching. I did some presentations at the AVCA and nobody knew what the heck the title was.” What matters is not the title Hildebrand takes – or doesn’t take – but the role he plays. He was hired by USA Volleyball, after just a year at Nebraska in which he won a national championship as an assistant coach, to push the United States back on top of the world of beach volleyball. Ask most any player, and you’ll get the same response: They picked the right guy. Hildebrand is what you could call a player’s coach. He was there at Long Beach State, his alma mater, last Friday night, watching the 49ers take on then-undefeated Hawai’i. He was there with Taylor Crabb, arguably the most promising and talented beach player in the United States. Beach in the morning. Indoor at night. Volleyball all day long. That, if nothing else, is why Hildebrand is so good at what he does. And he is good. After setting for Long Beach from 2003-2006, leaving as a three-time All-American, Hildebrand has enjoyed success everywhere he has gone. As an associate head coach for Long Beach in 2016 and 2017, he helped the Niners to consecutive NCAA semifinals. In his lone year at Nebraska, in 2017, the Huskers won an NCAA Championship. On the beach, he oversaw the most successful run of Casey Patterson’s career, there in the box as Patterson and Jake Gibb established themselves as the top team on the AVP Tour, winning more than double the next team. He was there for a Manhattan Beach Open win and an Olympic berth.   But again: Don’t call him coach. Hildebrand doesn’t just oversee one team anymore – he oversees the development of all of the top teams and prospects in the USA Volleyball system, everyone from the established talents in Jake Gibb and John Hyden to the promising prospects in Carly Wopat and Troy Field. “Our vision right now at USAV Beach, it’s to be the best students at our craft,” Hildebrand said. “And I know that sounds like a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, blah blah blah. But the people who are really excelling right now are at the learning or technological edge.” Hildebrand has an old soul, but still: There’s a wealth of technology and statistics in the sport. It’s time the United States began using it to its advantage. Which is why, more often than not, you can find Hildebrand in the film room, either with the athletes or just by himself. It’s possible that nobody on Earth has watched more film in the past year than Hildebrand, who is constantly searching for trends – quick sets, shoot sets, options, jump serving, float serving, whatever. “In beach volleyball, what I realized when I came out here five or six years ago, it was like ‘Whoa, in indoor we would use video,’” Hildebrand said. But in the beach? “We’d watch maybe a set,” Bourne said. It’s something Hildebrand is trying to change. Not radically. Not revolutionarily. Just a bit here and there. An hour or so every few days. Watch yourself. Watch opponents. Just watch the game. See what you can find. “One thing I’ve been doing, probably more than any other coach in the United States, is watching the game,” Hildebrand said. “Watching the world. That’s the one I’m pushing big with our athletes and coaches. All of this stuff, maybe we’ll see something, ‘Wow! That’s useful!’ And then asking the question why. “The hardest part about beach volleyball is that everybody is on their own. You can have great practices. You can work really hard. You can be really tough. But in the middle of the game, how do we think through the game? Let’s say we watched a couple matches, we can think through them.” So he’ll pour over the film. He’ll find the trends. He’ll present them to the athletes and from there, they can make of it what they will. It’s not his job to coach every specific team now. It’s to simply put them in a position to be as successful as possible. So if there’s one thing you could label Hildebrand – not coach, not director, not a director of coaching – it’s this: He is, simply, one of the most passionate people in beach volleyball.    

Alas, we get our first look. It was supposed to come this past week, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., site of the late Fort Lauderdale Major. But with the plug pulled on the season-opening Major of the beach volleyball season, we were forced to wait. For some, that wait ends this weekend, as four U.S. women’s teams, all new partnerships, will make the trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a two-star FIVB. Typically, no, two-stars would not garner much attention, but the four pairs heading overseas are four of the more intriguing partnerships on the women’s side. While the men’s scene was turned upside down and shaken sideways, with all but two of the top teams breaking up, the women’s was relatively quiet. Nearly all of the top teams remained together, while the mid-tier partnerships, the ones seeking breakthroughs, sought new partners to make that jump. Four of those – Amanda Dowdy and Corinne Quiggle, Jessica Gaffney and Molly Turner, Brittany Hochevar and Carly Wopat, Caitlin Ledoux and Geena Urango – will be competing in Cambodia. It made for a unique episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, one in which the hosts break down what individuals and teams are primed to make the biggest strides this year. Now, we left out the blue chips that are unquestionable, the Dalhaussers and Rosses, Klinemans and Hughes, because they’re already blue chips. Our focus was on the players and teams to make the biggest moves. Here are the five best female and male beach volleyball stocks, either as individuals or team, to buy this year:   Men Chase Budinger: It seems incredibly unappreciated, what Budinger was able to accomplish last season, his first on the AVP Tour. Not only was it his rookie year as a professional, it was the first time he had picked up a volleyball in a legitimately competitive arena since high school, and even then, it was indoor. And in just one season, Budinger was able to make a final? Beat Evandro? Win Rookie of the Year? With a full season under his belt, Budinger should be one of the biggest risers this year.    Tri Bourne, Trevor Crabb: Every time Bourne won a match last season – and he won many, including one over Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena and two over the Spanish, whom he had never beat – a large part of me wanted to remind people how absurd it was that he was winning. For a year and a half, he basically couldn’t sweat. And now he was beating the best team in the U.S. and another he had never beat with John Hyden playing defense? Bourne and Crabb were an excellent team even before either had learned how to play defense. Now that they’ve had Jose Loiola coaching them for an entire off-season, and Bourne is healthy enough to, you know, sweat, who knows how high they can climb this season.   Troy Field: The comparison I like to make with Troy, relative to the stock market, is Tesla. Here’s Tesla, a product of, honestly, genius. It has incredible upside, a potentially limitless ceiling. Sometimes it’s brilliant, and looks as if it could very well revolutionize the industry. Others, it busts. Anybody who has seen Field play has seen him make plays you simply can’t teach. It’s a rare type of athleticism that is going to win points, matches, attract partnerships (and sponsors). And then sometimes that athleticism gets a tad out of control, a bit like Elon Musk at Tesla, and he takes a few steps back. But he’s new to the game, and with two years of high level beach under his belt, a number of those odd mistakes should be smoothed out, and the ascent he’ll make this year will be quick.   Eric Zaun, Jeremy Casebeer: This is without a doubt the most interesting beach volleyball team in the United States, mostly because any team with Eric Zaun on it will be interesting, but what a dynamic. Here we have two bombers from the service line, who swing upwards of 80 percent of the time, who are a bit combustible in both good ways and bad. This is a team that could just as likely dump two straight matches and take 13th as win an entire tournament. Currently, they’re training in Brazil, against the best in the world, getting team-focused reps. I wouldn’t voluntarily bet against them.     Andrew Dentler, DR Vander Meer: It’s hard for me to lump these two together as a team, because qualifier teams are not exactly known for their longevity. But from what they’ve shown so far, this is going to be an excellent team. They’ve played in three AVP Nexts, winning one, placing second in another and fifth (I don’t know what happened there) in the next. Plus, Dentler, who was the unofficial adult of the year in 2018 – he got married, had a kid, finished his masters, bought a house – should have a little less on his plate to focus on volleyball.       Others to watch Ben Vaught Eric Beranek Kacey Losik Miles Partain Logan Webber Tim Brewster John Schwengel Ian Satterfield     Women Brittany Howard, Kelly Reeves Last year was really only the second year in which Howard’s focus was solely beach volleyball. She competed for Pepperdine in her grad year, and then she came out and won Rookie of the Year in 2018 on the AVP Tour. The vast majority of rookies in any sport come with no small measure of volatility, but Howard and Reeves were models of consistency, finishing in the top 10 in every AVP, including a third in San Francisco, while picking up a pair of bronze NORCECA medals and competing in four FIVBs. Year two should be another step up.   Geena Urango, Caitlin Ledoux When Urango made her SANDCAST debut, in December of 2017, she said that playing international volleyball wasn’t really a priority of hers. She loves to travel, just not to play volleyball. She enjoys actually enjoying the places she visits without the burden of competition. Now, however, with Ledoux, it seems she’s reprioritizing, if just a bit. They went to Chetumal, Mexico for a three-star in October and made the finals. In the three prior tournaments they had played together, they made the finals (in San Francisco) and the semifinals (in Hermosa Beach) and claimed seventh at p1440 San Jose.   Carly Wopat Wopat has known success at every level of beach volleyball – state champ in high school, All-American in college, National Team level afterwards. Now she’s on the beach, already scooped up by one of the most consistent defenders in the game in Brittany Hochevar. With her focus entirely on the sand, Wopat should be expected to make big moves in 2019.   Kerri Walsh Jennings, Brooke Sweat Remember when it was December of 2017, and Tiger Woods was the 1,199th ranked golfer in the world? And by August of 2018 he was back in the top 25? That’s a little bit of what 2019 could be for Walsh Jennings and Sweat. Not that Walsh Jennings could have ever fallen that far in the sport, but it’s still a parallel of one of the greats in the game being sidelined for a bit and now making one final push. At no point would it be wise to count out Walsh Jennings, especially since she’s playing with perhaps one of the more underrated players of this generation in Sweat, who has won with essentially everyone she’s played with.   Kelly Claes, Sarah Sponcil Classic case of the rivals turned teammates, who put on a delightful run through The Hague, winning a silver medal, which will pair nicely with a bronze from their debut tournament in Qinzhou, China, in October. This is a team that could very well supplant the top teams in the U.S. in spite of the fact that Sponcil is still competing for UCLA.   Others to watch Corinne Quiggle, Amanda Dowdy Delaney Knudsen, Jessica Sykora Molly Turner, Jessica Gaffney Allie Wheeler Nicolette Martin Falyn Fanoimoana Emily Hartong, Alexa Strange

Carly Wopat acknowledges that there are a number of skills that need to be refined, so be smoothed over, to be fully beached from their indoor counterparts. But she’s been an athlete all her life, a state champ in high school, an All-American at Stanford, a professional overseas. It’s simply a matter of time for most, and anyway, the majority of the fundamental skills are already there. There’s just one that gives her pause: setting, and hand setting.   “Initially I just wasn’t squaring up,” she said on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “It took a long time for me to just square up every time. I kept trying to angle the sets. I’m starting to get good at squaring up but I want to get better at hand setting and that’s the most difficult thing for me right now: hand setting. “The indoor hands are so different from the beach hands. I’ve gotten to the point where I know how to set a good ball, what it feels like, I just need to be able to do it consistently.” Anyone who might doubt Wopat’s ability to do so likely just doesn’t know much about Carly Wopat. This is a 26-year-old who, as a senior in high school, led Dos Pueblos to a CIF title and followed it up by setting a school record in the discus. This is a girl who, while majoring in human biology and dabbling with a minor in art at the most prestigious university in the country, led the Pac-12 in blocks per set (1.43) and hit .392 for her career, good for second all-time at Stanford. This is a girl who taught herself to play guitar, who speaks French and can also drop the occasional Turkish – “I don’t know why, but it just stuck with me,” she said – and Japanese. This is the daughter of a man who nearly qualified for the 1980 Olympics in track and field and a mother who competed as a gymnast in college. And hand setting could potentially be an issue? No way. In fact, it is the very difficulty of the sport, the fact that one couldn’t simply be a decent athlete and succeed, that drew her to volleyball in the first place. It is the need for these reps, the proverbial 10,000 hours, that she loves the most. “I like the speed of it,” she said of volleyball. “It’s an interesting sport. It takes a lot of skill. There are some sports where you can be really athletic and just go out and be really good at, like you can run and go be a track athlete or something like that. But with volleyball, there’s so much skill involved that it takes years and years to cultivate just hand-eye coordination and the feel for the ball. Just things that only come with experience I guess, perspective of the court and so I really liked that part of the game, that I could work on these skills and be really athletic and go out and play this game.” And in limited experience on the beach, she has already excelled, making two main draws – in San Jose and Huntington Beach – to end the 2018 season, taking fifth at p1440 Huntington Beach alongside Corinne Quiggle. With those resume points, despite zero FIVB points to her name but the desire to play overseas, she got a call from one of the most experienced United States defenders, Brittany Hochevar. “Hochevar messaged me while I was still playing in the p1440s and asked if I wanted to meet up,” Wopat recalled. “I think she had done her research and watched me a little bit and maybe talked to some people, so we met up and discussed playing together, and she just kinda has this dream to go to the Olympics for 2020 and we talked a lot about timing, and our partnership – I don’t know, just the timing of it all just works out really well. “The more I’ve gotten to know her spirit and energy – she’s just an amazing person. I just think we’re going to make an amazing partnership.”  

Becoming a great volleyball athlete doesn't happen overnight. Carly Wopat walks us through her journey of growing into a champion. During our conversation, we talk about the early beginnings with her parents who were a big inspiration, her early years in competition, and her training drills. Throughout this conversation, you will learn about the reason why knowing your “why” can create massive shifts in your results. Carly also talks about how failing is a part of learning, the importance of morning routines, and the benefits of journaling.

Kevin Barnett & DJ Roueche recap AVP Hermosa, are joined in studio by Nationa Team member Carly Wopat and they visit with Ali Wood of Five 12 Apparel.

#41 Mastering your fate and captaining your soul with Carly WOPAT http://beyondathletic.com/41 Athlete Case Study: Professional volleyball player who graduated from Stanford University, plays for the USA National Team, and currently plays in Ankara, Turkey March 23, 2016 BACKGROUND In this athlete case study, we focus on what it takes to overcome the most difficult times in our lives. Having people around you to lean on, finding what outlets work best to express yourself, and focusing on doing what is best to accomplish your dreams are just a few of the topics we cover with our infinitely resilient guest: Carly Wopat. BIOGRAPHY Born, Carly Wopat in Santa Barbara, California on October 13, 1992. Parents: Ron and Kathy, younger brothers: Jackson and Eli. twin sister: Sam (passed away in 2012). Graduated in 2014 from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology and a concentration in Human Performance and Behavior. Began gymnastics when she was 3 and was a tri-sport athlete in high school. Trains with the USA National Team.