Phoebe Mills

Education

She attended her first United States. Nationals in 1984, finishing eighth in the junior division.

Career

Mills was coached by Marta and Béla Károlyi in Houston, Texas. While Mills was sometimes overshadowed in the media by her teammate Kristie Phillips, she developed a reputation as a steady, consistent competitor in national and international meets, placing third at the 1985 City of Popes competition and second at the 1986 United States. Olympic Festival and United States. Nationals (junior division). 1988 was Mills" breakout year.

She also placed first at the United States. Olympic Trials, easily earning a spot on the American squad for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

Mills emerged as the United States. team"s most successful gymnast at the Olympics. Mills continued to compete in early 1989, but retired later that year, due in part to the effects of Epstein-Barr syndrome.

She has occasionally returned to the sport as a coach. In 2000, Mills was inducted into the United States of America Hall of Fame.

After retiring from gymnastics, Mills became involved with competitive diving, specializing in the 10-meter platform event.

She also competed in national diving events, participating in the 1993 Olympic Festival and the United States. Championships. Mills retired from diving after graduation. Most recently, Mills has been involved with the sport of snowboarding.

She has acted as a snowboarding coach and instructor, working with the United States. junior national team

Mills served as a judge at the 2014 winter Olympics at Sochi.

Achievements

• Her brother, Nathaniel Mills, competed in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, the 1994 Winter Olympics, and the 1998 Winter Olympics, and her sister Jessica Mills won the 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. She won every meet she entered, including the United States. Nationals, the American Cup, the Mardi Gras Invitational and the International Mixed Pairs, was named the United States Olympic Committee"s Gymnast of the Year and was nominated for the prestigious James E. Sullivan Award. She performed a solid, artistic routine to win a bronze medal on the balance beam, behind Daniela Silivaş and Elena Shushunova. With her third-place finish, Mills became the first individual American female gymnast to win a medal in a fully attended Olympics, and the only American gymnast, male or female, to medal in Seoul. However, had the competition been held under the New Life Rule developed in 1989, she would"ve won the silver medal. She excelled in the sport enough to join the diving team at the University of Miami in Florida, where she won the Big East Conference for three years.

Membership

In 1987 she attended her first and only World Championships as a member of the sixth-place American team While she finished a modest fifteenth place in the all-around, she also qualified for three event finals, more than any other member of the team