Guard Young

2004 Olympic Team Silver Medal 2003 World Artistic Championships Team Member (Alternate) 2002 Individual Event World Championships Team Member 2001 World Artistic Championships Team Silver Medalist   Hometown: Oklahoma City, Okla. Residence: Norman, Oklahoma Birth Date/Place: June 3, 1977 / State College , Pa. Club: Team Chevron - Oklahoma Coach: Mark Williams College: Brigham Young University Former Collegiate Coach: Makato Sakamoto Year in School: Graduated in 2000 Previous Club: Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy Favorite Event: Pommel Horse Began Gymnastics: 1987 Years on Jr. National Team: 3 (1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97) Years on Sr. National Team: 6.5 (1998-04, Fall ‘04) Personal Info Young helped the U.S. men's team to an Olympic silver medal, the men's first medal since the team struck gold in the 1984 Olympics. Young was also a member of the World Championships silver medal team in 2001. His father, Wayne, was on the 1976 Olympic Gymnastics Team and was the 1975 NCAA All-Around Champion. Young graduated with a broadcast journalism major from BYU. His older sister, Jessica, attended BYU on a gymnastics scholarship. International Competition 2004 Olympic Games, Athens, GRE: 2nd- Team 2004 13th Internationaux de France, Lyon, FRA 2003 12 th Internationaux de France, Paris-Bercy, FRA; 2nd -FX 2003 Visa American Cup, Fairfax, Va., USA 2002 Chunichi Cup, Nagoya, JPN; 1st -V, 3rd -SR 2002 Individual Event World Championships, Debrecen, HUN 2002 Sino American Team Competition, Beijing, CHN 2001 World Championships, Ghent, BEL; 2nd -Team 2001 Sr. Pan American Championships, Cancun, MEX; 2nd -Team, 4th -AA 2001 Pontiac American Team Cup, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ; 1st - Team 2000 Pontiac International Team Championships, Syracuse, NY, USA ; 2nd -Team, T4th -FX 2000 Qantas International Challenge, Sydney, AUS; 1st -FX   National Competition 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Anaheim, Calif. 2004 Olympic Team Member 2004 Winter Cup Challenge, Las Vegas, Nev.; 2nd -V 2003 U.S. National Championships, Milwaukee, Wis.; 2nd -PB 2002 U.S. National Championships, Cleveland, Ohio; 3rd -AA, 2nd -PH 2002 U.S. National Qualifier, Colorado Springs, Colo. 2002 Winter Cup Challenge, Las Vegas, Nev. 2001 U.S. National Championships, Philadelphia, Pa.; 5th -AA, 2nd -FX, 4th -SR 2000 Olympic Trials, Boston, Mass. 2000 John Hancock U.S. Championships, St. Louis, Mo.; Olympic Trials Qualifier 1999 World Team Trials, Kansas City, Mo. 1999 John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Sacramento, Calif.; 4th -AA, 1st -V Photo copyright Steve Lange/USA Gymnastics

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