Wednesday, July 22, 2009

C-USA at the ESPY's

Last Sunday night ESPN presented its annual ESPY awards show in Los Angeles. One of the major award winners is a current student at a Conference USA school. Gymnast Nastia Luikin, a student at SMU, was named Female Athlete of the Year.

She was the 2008 Olympic individual all-around gold medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller as the American gymnast having won the most World Championship medals. Liukin has also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games.

In addition to her ESPY award, she has been named the FIG Athlete of the Year, the Women’s Sports Foundation Individual Sportswoman of the Year and the United States Sports Academies Female Athlete of the Year.

Luikin was born in Moscow, but moved to the United States when she was three years old. She resides in Parker, Texas and did her Olympic training in Plano, a north suburb of Dallas. She is an international business major at SMU.

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