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2020-21 Gymnastics Roster

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Laura Leigh Horton

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • High School Memorial High School
  • Hometown Houston, Texas

Biography



Honors and Awards:

Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll 2021
Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll 2020
Scholastic All-American 2019
Scholastic All-American 2018
 
Career Highs:
VT: 9.725
FX: 9.800
 
2021 (Senior Year): Competed in nine meets during the season… Made her career debut on vault at Utah (1/23)… Earned a career-high 9.725 on vault at Arizona State (3/6)… Earned a career-best 9.850 on floor at the Pac-12 Championships (3/20)… Won the team award for Most Improved.
 
2020 (Junior Year): Competed in two meets of the season... Made her career debut on floor and earned a 9.800 at Cal (3/1/20). 

2019 (Sophomore year): Did not compete her sophomore year.

2018 (Freshman year): Did not compete her freshman year.

Club/High School: Attended Memorial High School… competed with Stars Gymnastics in Houston for 15 years before coming to Arizona… was the Level 10 State Vault Champion and she also was a Level 10 Junior Olympic National Qualifier three times (2014, 2016) …helped lead her club team, Stars Gymnastics Houston to become State Champions.

Personal: From Houston, Texas… she lived with her mother, Meme, father James, and three siblings, James, Charlie and Ellen…currently an Elementary Education major because she enjoys spending time with kids… loves to go shopping, travel, and watch movies… her family owns a ranch and they all love to ride horses.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018Freshman

    5'6"
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2019-20Junior

    5'6"
  • 2020-21Senior

    5'7"
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