Hilary Grivich
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Hilary Coplin Grivich (May 23, 1977 – May 4, 1997) was an American gymnast and diver. She was a member of the silver medal-winning American team at the 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the 1990 junior national champion in gymnastics.[1]
One of the original members of the "Károlyi six-pack",[2] Grivich trained under Béla Károlyi in Houston. In her first season at the senior level, she was a member of the silver medal-winning American team at the 1991 World Championships, acting as the leadoff gymnast during compulsories and competing second in the lineup on all four events in team finals.[3][4]
Grivich was a contender for the 1992 Olympics, placing seventh in the all-around[5] and third on balance beam and floor exercise at that year's national championships.[6] However, at the Olympic Trials, she placed eighth and did not qualify for the Olympic squad. Béla and Márta Károlyi, and some other gymnastics insiders, claimed that U.S. judges had deliberately underscored Grivich to keep the team from having too many Károlyi club gymnasts.[7]
Grivich retired from gymnastics after the Olympics. In 1993, she switched her focus to diving. After only two years in the sport, she earned a scholarship to the University of Houston. She excelled in NCAA competition and hoped to eventually make the U.S. Olympic team as a diver.[7][8]
Less than a month before her 20th birthday, Grivich was killed in a car accident on a Houston highway.[8][9] A scholarship with the Strake Jesuit Scholarship Fund was established in her name.[10] In addition, Grivich's diving club, Woodlands Diving Academy, used to hold an annual elite meet in her honour, the Hilary Grivich Memorial Invitational, before renaming it the "Laura Wilkinson Golden Invitational."[11]
References
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- ↑ Results from 1990 Jr. Nationals at Gymn-Forum Template:Webarchive
- ↑ "Whatever happened to Amy Scherr?" Template:Webarchive Gymnastics Greats, July 11, 2000
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Nancy Raymond, International Gymnast, May 1991
- ↑ "Hilary Grivich, 19, American Gymnast" New York Times obituary, May 6, 1997
- ↑ AA results from 1992 Nationals at Gymn-Forum Template:Webarchive
- ↑ EF results from 1992 Nationals at Gymn-Forum Template:Webarchive
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". John Lopez, Houston Chronicle 1999
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Luan Peszek, USA Gymnastics press release, May 5, 1997
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". USA Gymnastics, May 1997
- ↑ Information on the Hilary Grivich Memorial Invitational from US Diving
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