Katelyn Michelle Ohashi is an American former artistic gymnast who competed for the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a six-time All-American and was a four-time member of USA Gymnastics' Junior National Team, the 2011 junior national champion and the winner of the 2013 American Cup.
She additionally is on the cover of the 2019 edition of ESPN's body issue.
Ohashi was born in
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to Richard and Diana Ohashi, the latter a former high-school gymnast. She has three older brothers, Ryan, Kyle and Kalen, and is of
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and
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descent.
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In 2006, Ohashi, her ******, and the youngest of her brothers, Kalen, moved to
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. Three years later they moved to
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, both to support her gymnastics training.
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She attended
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before graduating from
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in 2015.
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She began attending the
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in the fall of 2015, where she majored in
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,
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graduating in 2019.
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Ohashi started gymnastics at age 3.
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Ohashi had body-image problems and has been a recipient of body-shaming insults. She has received mental-health counseling, which she reports as being "crucial in my growing as a person and my mental health."
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