Jade received a silver medal on floor and vault at the 2017 World Gymnastics Championships, and she got the same results in August at the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. In fact, the 19-year-old from Phoenix, AZ, who's a future Ohio State Buckeyes gymnast, is known as a specialist in those two events. She passed up on the opportunity to contend for a spot on the Worlds team in 2018. Instead, she competed in the apparatus World Cup series, an eight-competition series that started that year. FIG rules prohibited her from doing both.
Since, for this upcoming Olympic Games only, each country has four, not five, gymnasts competing in the team event, two additional gymnasts can qualify individually as event specialists. This is what the apparatus World Cup series could do for Jade — she'll reportedly know if she's able to clinch a ticket to Tokyo as early as February.
How Jade did at 2019 Worlds: gold in the team final, silver in the vault final
Jade's USA Gymnastics highlight page: View more of her accomplishments.
Jade's Instagram: @jadecareyy
