Jade Carey<\/strong><\/a> is a proud member of the 2024 Team USA Olympics<\/a> gymnastics squad after getting her big break at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Fans want to know more about the athlete, including where she\u2019s from and how long she\u2019s been competing.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe she was about 4 years old; her dad and I were watching TV, and all of a sudden, oop, there goes a cartwheel,\u201d Jade\u2019s mother, Danielle Mitchell-Greenberg<\/strong>, revealed on the Today<\/em> show in June 2021. \u201cWe looked at each other, and I said, \u2018Did you teach her that?\u2019 and he said, \u2018No, did you?\u2019 and I said, \u2018No,\u2019 and so I think we kind of knew at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n However, it wasn\u2019t until she was a teenager that Jade understood she could make her hobby her full-time job. \u201cI feel like I didn\u2019t really understand until I was a little bit older \u2014 probably, like, 15 or 16 \u2014 that this is something that I could really do,\u201d she told Us Weekly<\/em> in April 2021.<\/p>\n In 2017, she began her senior career. At age 17, she was awarded the gold medal in vault and silver medal in floor exercise at the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships that year.<\/p>\n Jade made the 2020 Olympic team but only as an apparatus competitor.<\/p>\n After deferring going to college at Oregon State University to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, she started her freshmen semester in the fall of 2021. Jade also competes on the school\u2019s gymnastics team.<\/p>\n The athlete has been coached by her dad, Brian Carey<\/strong>, since she was a preteen.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew when she was young she had a gift. I didn\u2019t want to push it, definitely didn\u2019t want to push it for me,\u201d Brian told the Corvallis Gazette-Times<\/em> in a 2024 interview. \u201cI wanted her to hopefully fall in love with the sport, which she did. I just thought it would be too much when she was little to be coaching her all the time. So, I would just clap and ask her how her day was and if she had fun. That was about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jade\u2019s father continued to coach her in college, joining the coaching staff at Oregon State University in 2023.<\/p>\n The Phoenix, Arizona, native catapulted to worldwide attention when Simone Biles<\/strong> was forced to withdraw<\/a> from the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo due to mental health concerns as well as developing a case of the \u201ctwisties.\u201d<\/a> That\u2019s when a gymnast loses awareness while they are in mid-air, making it incredibly difficult to land safely.<\/p>\n After Simone bowed out on July 27, 2021, individual competitor Jade filled her spot on Team USA as their fourth teammate for the remainder of the competition.<\/p>\n Although Jade faltered in the vault competition, which is her specialty, she redeemed herself by taking home the gold medal in the floor exercise final.<\/p>\n Jade qualified for Team USA at the Olympic trials in June 2024, allowing her to compete on the all-round team as well as apparatus events.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the defending gold medalist in the floor exercise landed several of her jumping sequences out of bounds during the qualifiers on July 28, 2024. Her final leap even ended in a fall at the corner of the mat. The lower scores knocked Jade out of competing in the event\u2019s individual competition as a result, although she will still compete in the vault.<\/p>\n Jade dispelled rumors that nerves were getting the better of her, telling Olympics.com, \u201cI just have not been feeling well<\/a> the past few days and haven\u2019t been able to eat or anything. I had, like, no energy today and didn\u2019t really have a sense of what was going on in my head. So, I just kind of wanted people to know that so, they know that there\u2019s actually something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n In an Instagram post next to photos from her floor routine, Jade wrote, \u201cNot the day I was expecting to have but I can\u2019t thank you all enough for the love and support. I am so proud of this team and what we accomplished today. We\u2019re not done yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite feeling under the weather, Jade competed in the vault during the women\u2019s team all-around final on July 30, 2024. She placed second in the vault with a score of 14.800, just behind teammate Simone\u2019s 14.900. The ladies took home the gold medal<\/a>, which was Jade\u2019s first team gold.<\/p>\n Despite not being able to defend her individual all-round floor title, Jade will compete in the individual vault finals for Team USA on Saturday, August 3, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nJade Has Been in Gymnastics Since Childhood<\/h2>\n
Jade Carey Is a College Athlete<\/h2>\n
Who Is Jade Carey\u2019s Coach?<\/h2>\n
Jade Carey Replaced Simone Biles on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Gymnastics Team<\/h2>\n
Jade Carey Battled a Mystery Illness at the 2024 Paris Olympics<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>Jade Carey Wins Big With Gold in Women\u2019s Team All-Around<\/h2>\n
What Other Events Will Jade Carey Compete in at the 2024 Paris Olympics?<\/h2>\n