Jordan Bowers

Jordan Skylar Bowers (born April 5, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast and was part of the United States women's national gymnastics team. She won the Junior all around gold medal at the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships and the 2018 Junior Pan American Championships.

Jordan Bowers
Full nameJordan Bowers
Country represented United States
Born (2003-04-05) April 5, 2003
HometownLincoln, Nebraska USA
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelJunior International Elite
Years on national team2018 (US)
ClubNebraska
College teamOklahoma Sooners
Former coach(es)Danelle Catlett
ChoreographerPayton Prall
RetiredNovember 2, 2019 (elite)
Medal record
Representing the  United States
Pacific Rim Championships (Junior)
2018 MedellínTeam
2018 MedellínAll-Around
2018 MedellínFloor Exercise
2018 MedellinUneven Bars
Junior Pan American Championships
2018 Buenos AiresTeam
2018 Buenos AiresAll Around
2018 Buenos AiresUneven Bars
2018 Buenos AiresFloor Exercise
2018 Buenos AiresBalance Beam

Personal life

Bowers was born to John and Tracy Bowers in 2003, and she has one sibling, a sister named Felicity. Bowers began gymnastics in 2005.[1]

Gymnastics career

Junior

2016 - 2017

Bowers began competing at the junior elite level in 2016, where she competed at the American classic and the P&G National Championships.

2018

Bowers was officially added to the junior national team after she was named to the team to compete at the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships alongside seniors Grace McCallum, Morgan Hurd, and Jordan Chiles and fellow juniors Kayla DiCello and Sunisa Lee.[2] There she won gold in the team, junior all-around, and junior floor exercise finals. She won bronze on uneven bars.[3] Bowers later competed at the Pan American Championships from June 13-15 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[4] There she won gold in the team finals with Leanne Wong, Tori Tatum, and JaFree Scott and in the individual all-around, uneven bars and floor exercise finals together with bronze in balance beam. [5]

On July 28 Bowers competed at the 2018 U.S. Classic. She finished third in the all-around behind Wong and DiCello after falling twice on floor exercise. She finished second on balance beam and uneven bars.[6] Bowers traveled to Boston to compete in the 2018 U.S. Championships in August. She was one of the favorite to win the title based on her earlier victories in the all-around, but she struggled on the first day with multiple errors and finished in 17th place in the all-around on the first day.[7] Bowers withdrew from the second day of competition, citing an injury sustained during training that had also hampered her on the first day of competition.[8] Because she did not finish in the top six all-around, she was not automatically named to the national team.

Senior

2019

In 2019 Bowers turned senior. In February she attended the national team camp in hopes of making an international assignment.[9] Just before the camp Bowers re-injured her lower back and it was determined she had a spinal disc herniation and an edema on her vertebrae. She sat out the remainder of the season in order to recover.[10]

On November 2, Bowers announced on Instagram that she had retired from elite gymnastics and would continue training as a level 10 gymnast with the intention of competing at the University of Oklahoma, starting in the 2021–22 season.[11]

Competitive history

Junior
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2016American Classic86
P&G National Championships1421122210
2017American Classic88
U.S. Classic322294136
P&G National Championships131272810
2018Pacific Rim Championships
Pan American Championships
U.S. Classic729
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References
  1. "Jordan Bowers". usagym.org. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  2. "USA Gymnastics names women's 2018 Pac Rim, Junior Pan Am Championships Teams". USA Gymnastics. April 10, 2018.
  3. "USA brings home 29 medals from men's, women's individual event finals". USA Gymnastics. April 29, 2018.
  4. "Women's National Team Camp begins today at Flip Fest". USA Gymnastics. May 15, 2018.
  5. "USA, Bowers strike gold at 2018 Junior Pan Am Championships". USA Gymnastics. June 13, 2018.
  6. "Biles, Wong win all-around titles at 2018 GK U.S. Classic". USA Gymnastics. July 28, 2018.
  7. "MyUSAGym". myusagym.com. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  8. "USA Gymnastics on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  9. "U.S. women's February training camp begins today". USA Gymnastics. February 21, 2019.
  10. "Right before February national team camp, I injured my lower back for the second time in six months". Instagram. August 3, 2019.
  11. "Today I am announcing my retirement from elite gymnastics". Instagram. November 2, 2019.
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