Jamie Dantzscher

Dantzscher in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Jamie Annette Dantzscher
Born	(1982-05-02)May 2, 1982 (age 43) Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Gymnastics career
Sport	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	United States (1994–2001 (USA))
College team	UCLA Bruins
Club	Charter Oak Gliders
Former coach(es)	Beth Rybacki Steve Rybacki
Music	"My Drag" (1999); "La Cumparsita" (2000)
Medal record Women'sartistic gymnastics Representingthe United States Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Team RepresentingUCLA Bruins NCAA Championships 2001 Athens Team 2002 Tuscaloosa All-Around 2002 Tuscaloosa Vault 2002 Tuscaloosa Floor Exercise 2003 Lincoln Uneven Bars 2003 Lincoln Team 2004 Los Angeles Team 2001 Athens Floor Exercise 2003 Lincoln Floor Exercise 2003 Lincoln Vault 2002 Tuscaloosa Team

Jamie Annette Dantzscher (born May 2, 1982)^[1] is an American formerartistic gymnast. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning American team at the2000 Olympics inSydney.^[2][3]

Dantzscher was born inCanoga Park, California and raised inSan Dimas, California. She graduated fromSan Dimas High School.^[1] She trained at Charter Oak Gliders inCovina under Beth Kline-Rybacki and Steve Rybacki.^[1][4]

Dantzscher was a member of the United States national gymnastics team for eight years, starting in 1994. In her international debut, the 1996 City of Popes competition in France, she won the all-around andfloor exercise titles.^[5]

She competed in her first senior U.S. Nationals in 1997, finishing sixth in the all-around.^[6] Her placement would have qualified her to the U.S. squad for the1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, but at 15, she was too young to meet theInternational Federation of Gymnastics' newly raised minimum age requirement.^[6] She went on to compete at the1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships inTianjin, where she placed fifth with the American team.^[7]

In 2000, Dantzscher won her first national all-around medal, a bronze.^[5][8] She placed fifth at the Olympic Trials,^[8] securing a berth on the U.S. team for the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney.^[2]

Dantzscher fell on the floor exercise during the team preliminaries in Sydney but competed well in the team finals, scoring 9.429 onvault, 9.700 on theuneven bars and 9.712 on floor. The U.S. team initially finished fourth, behind Romania, Russia, and China.^[3]

Dantzscher was one of the most visible members of the U.S. Olympic team in the media because of her outspoken opposition to the policies of the national team coordinator,Béla Károlyi, whom she called a "puppeteer".^[9][10] Her opinions about Károlyi, which were echoed by some of her teammates and their coaches, were published in many major news outlets during the Olympics.^[3][11]

On April 28, 2010, Dantzscher and the other women on the 2000 Olympic team were awarded the bronze medal in the team competition when it was discovered that the Chinese team had falsified the age of one of its gymnasts,Dong Fangxiao.^[12] Dong's results were nullified, and theInternational Olympic Committee stripped the Chinese team of its medal.^[13]

After the Olympics, Dantzscher joined theUCLA Bruins gymnastics team. During herNCAA career, she achieved a UCLA record 28perfect ten scores. In her first meet as a Bruin, she scored perfect tens on both of the events she competed, floor and bars, making her the first UCLA gymnast to score a perfect ten on her debut collegiate routine.^[1] In her four years of NCAA competition, Dantzscher achieved All-American honors 15 times, earned threePac-10 individual titles, and was a part of threeNCAA Championship-winning Bruins teams.^[1] She received the 2004AAI Award.^[14]

Dantzscher was inducted into theUCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.^[15][16]

During the 2008–09 season, Dantzscher was an assistant coach forArizona State.^[17] Before that, she coached at three gyms in California: Diamond Elite Gymnastics inChino, Club Champion inPasadena, and East Bay Sports Academy inConcord.^[17]

On March 29, 2017, Dantzscher wasone of several former gymnasts who testified before Congress about the sexual abuse committed byUSA Gymnastics' national team doctor, Larry Nassar.^[18][19] She indicated she had been abused "all over the world", and that she thought she was the only one.^[20]

Dantzscher's parents and her six siblings all have first names beginning with the letter J.^[1] Two of her younger sisters, twins Janelle^[21] and Jalynne,^[22] also competed on the UCLA gymnastics team. Jalynne competed with the Bruins for one season before retiring from gymnastics because of a recurring injury.^[23] Dantzscher's oldest sister, Jennifer Pippin, died in April 2017 ofasthma-related causes.^[24][25]

Dantzscher is aLatter-day Saint.^[26] She is the sister-in-law ofBrandon Crawford, theSan Francisco Giants shortstop, who is married to Jalynne Dantzscher.^[27]

In February 2017, three former gymnasts, Dantzscher,Jeanette Antolin andJessica Howard, gave an interview with60 Minutes in which they accusedLarry Nassar of sexually abusing them. The gymnasts also alleged that the "emotionally abusive environment" at the national team training camps run byBéla andMárta Károlyi at theKarolyi Ranch gave Nassar an opportunity to take advantage of the gymnasts and made them afraid to speak up about the abuse.^[28]

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