Anna Li

Education

While training as a Level 10 and Elite gymnast she attended and graduated from Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois.

Career

She was on the United States National Team in 2011 - 2012. Her parents, Li Yuejiu and Wu Jiani were Olympic gymnasts who competed for China at the 1984 Summer Olympics and are also her coaches. She has a younger sister, Andrea, who is also a gymnast.

Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Li started competing in gymnastics when she was six years old at Las Vegas Flyers.

She trained in Nevada until her family moved to Illinois in 2002. Anna qualified to the Senior Elite level in 2004, competing the United States National Championships in both 2004 and 2005 before being recruited by the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins.

She was unable to compete for most of 2006 due to injury. National Collegiate Athletic Association

Anna joined the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins women"s gymnastics team

In 2010, she helped lead the Bruins to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship title.

2011

After finishing her four years with the Bruins, Li decided that she was not done with gymnastics. Li also made a guest appearance on the American Broadcasting Company Family television show, Make lieutenant Or Break lieutenant In July 2011, Li formally returned to the elite level by competing at the American Classic, placing first on uneven bars and third on balance beam.

She competed in the same two events at the Covergirl Classic in Chicago Illinois later that year.

Despite a fall, she still tied for seventh place on uneven bars with a score of 14.300. In August, Li competed in the United States. National Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she tied for third on uneven bars (two-day total: 29450) and fourteenth on balance beam (two-day total: 26650).

Her scores qualified her for the national team Li was then chosen for the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

2012

Li was chosen as an alternate along with Elizabeth Price and Sarah Finnegan for the 2012 London Olympics team after placing third on the uneven bars at the Trials.

She later fell training on the uneven bars, hurting her neck on the last day of training for replacement athletes. She performed in the Kellogg"s Tour of Gymnastics Champions with the rest of the Olympic team

Achievements

• She was an 8-time All-American gymnast while competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a member of the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins women"s gymnastics team that won the 2010 National Collegiate Athletic Association National Championship title. During her time with University of California, Los Angeles, she won six regional titles: four uneven bars, one vault and one balance beam. She scored three perfect-10s on the uneven bars and won eight All-American honors.