- Alternate for the 2025 World Championships team
Birthplace: Fontana, CA
Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Instagram: Instagram.com/maxpoveda_
Name of High School: Upland High School
High School Graduation Year: 2024
Name of College: UCLA
College Graduation Year: 2028
Degree/Major: Neuroscience
Year you began gymnastics: 2018
How did you get involved in gymnastics: After trying to teach myself to do flips on my aunts backyard trampoline my parents enrolled me in classes so I could safely learn how to do them. They motivated me by explaining that I could learn how to do more and harder skills.
Favorite thing about gymnastics: Getting to fly through the air and learning new and harder skills. I also love spending time with the T&T family!
What are your goals for gymnastics?: Compete at World Championships and make the Olympic Team
Names of parents/guardians/spouse: Stephanie Clark-Poveda/Benito Poveda
Names of sibling(s): Julianne Poveda
Favorite school subject: Science/Anatomy
Hobbies or favorite activities: Surfing, Snowboarding, and Listening to Music
Favorite TV show(s): The Last Of Us
Favorite Food: Italian
- 2025
USA Gymnastics Championships, Providence, R.I. -
6th-DM, SY
- 2025
Elite Challenge, Jacksonville, Fla. -
4th-DM, SY
- 2025
Winter Classic Invitational, Battle Creek, Mich. -
4th-SY; 8th-DM
- 2024
USA Gymnastics Championships, Minneapolis, Minn. -
7th-SY
- 2024
Elite Challenge, Irving, Texas -
3rd-DM; 7th-SY
- 2024
Winter Classic, Oklahoma City, Okla. -
5th-DM
- 2023
USA Gymnastics Championships, Tulsa, Okla. -
2nd-TR, SY (IE)
- 2023
Elite Challenge, Irving, Texas -
1st-SY (IE 17-21); 6th-DM (Sr. Div.)
- 2023
Winter Classic, Daytona Beach, Fla. -
1st-SY (IE 17-21)
- 2022
USA Gymnastics Championships, Des Moines, Iowa -
3rd-SY (Jr. Div.)
- 2022
Elite Challenge, Irving, Texas -
2nd-TU (L10 15-16)
- 2022
Elite Challenge, Irving, Texas -
1st-SY; 7th-TR (Jr. Div.); 2nd-TU (L10 15-16)
- 2022
Winter Classic Invitational, Daytona Beach, Fla. -
1st-SY; 3rd-DM (Jr. Div.)
- 2021
Elite Challenge, Birmingham, Ala. -
1st-DM (L10 15+)
- 2025
Coimbra World Cup, Coimbra, Portugal -
- 2024
Club Pan American Cup, Lima Peru -
8th-SY (17-21)
- 2022
AERE Trampoline Cup, Rimini, Italy -
3rd-DM (13-16)