About Elise Ray
Mary Elise Ray is an American gymnast who represented the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the 1999 World Championships. She was the head gymnastics coach at the University of Washington from 2016 to 2020. Ray won both the US National Championships and the Olympic Trials in 2000. Ray was one of the gymnasts who vaulted before the error was discovered; she fell on both her warmup and competition vaults. Previously, she tied (with Onnie Willis of UCLA) for the all-around title in 2001 and won golds in the balance beam (2002) and uneven bars (2004) events. Elise Ray graduated from the University of Michigan with the most All-America honors (14) in the program's history.
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