Career
Hong is of Chinese and Vietnamese ancestry. Hong lived in Blue Springs, Missouri, and trained at Great American Gymnastics Express (GAGE) for four years. She also trained under Valeri Liukin at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA).
She now competes for Stanford University.
Hong became a junior international elite in 2004 and qualified to her first United States Junior National Championships at age eleven. She was named to the Junior National Team for the first time following the 2005 National Championships, a feat she repeated in 2006 after a fifth-place finish in the all-around.
Hong became a Senior International Elite in 2007. The following year, Hong was named to the 2008–2009 United States. Senior National team, and was invited to the 2008 Olympic Trials.
Hong"s skill as an all-around athlete without a weak event enabled her to be named, along with Jana Bieger and Corrie Lothrop, as one of three alternates for the United States. Olympic team
Following the Olympics, Hong left her former gym and moved to WOGA to train with Valeri Liukin. Hong finished second in the all-around at the 2009 United States National Championships with a total score of 117.250 in Dallas, Texas. This made medalists of all four American gymnasts (Bridget Sloan, Kayla Williams and Rebecca Bross in addition to Hong) in the women"s competition.
In early March 2010, Hong tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee at the National Team training camp as she landed a vault.
She subsequently spent several months out of training, recovering from surgery. Vault
Double Twist Yurchenko
-5.8 Difficulty (Doctorate) Score
Uneven bars
Mount on LB.
Pike stalder 1/2 (Doctorate) Endo 1/2 (C) Toe shoot to HB (B). Pike stalder 1/1 (East) Tkachev (Doctorate) +0.2 Connection.
Kip, cast to High School 1/2, Giant (B) Toe on 1/1 (Doctorate) Bail to High School on LB (Doctorate) Stalder shoot to HB (C) +0.2.
Giant, Giant, Double layout dismount (Doctorate)
6.0 Doctorate Score
Balance Beam
Press to Handstand mount (B). Front aerial (Doctorate) Backhandspring (B) Layout stepout (C) +0.2. Full turn with leg at horizontal (C).
Switch leap (C) Back tuck (C) +0.1.
Onodi (Doctorate) Sheep jump (Doctorate) +0.1. Aerial cartwheel (Doctorate).
Switch ring (East). Side somi (Doctorate). Split jump (A) Wolf jump (A).
Backhandsrping (B) Backhandspring to 2 feet (B) Double pike (East) +0.2
6.4 Doctorate Score
Floor Exercise
Pike full-in (East).
1½ (C) Rudi (C) +0.1. Split leap 1/1 (C); Double turn with leg at horizontal (Doctorate). Switch ring (C)..Switch side 1/2 (C).
2½ (Doctorate) Front layout (B) +0.1
5.5 Doctorate Score.
