Michael Ashe
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| Full name | Michael Brandon Ashe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 14, 1981 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | California Golden Bears (2000–2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Head coach(es) | Barry Weiner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | c. 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Brandon Ashe (born March 14, 1981) is a retired American artistic gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. He competed collegiately for the California Golden Bears men's gymnastics team and was a two-time NCAA national champion on the horizontal bar.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Ashe was born on March 14, 1981, to Frances and Terry Ashe in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He trained at Greenville Gymnastics Center, then later at the Atlanta School of Gymnastics.[1] His hometown is Stone Mountain, Georgia, and he attended Stephenson High School where he played high school basketball and baseball.[2] He later enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley to pursue gymnastics.
Gymnastics career
[edit | edit source]Ashe was a California Golden Bears men's gymnastics team member. He was the back-to-back NCAA horizontal champion at the 2000 and 2001 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships.[3]
On the international stage, Ashe represented the United States at the 1999 Pan American Games and won a silver medal in the team all-around.[4]
Following his retirement, Ashe began coaching gymnastics in 2003.[5] Additionally, he judges gymnastics and was named the 2013 National Judge of the Year for the Western region of the National Gymnastics Judges Association.[6] He was a judge at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[7]
References
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External links
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- Michael Ashe at California Golden Bears
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- Living people
- 1981 births
- American male artistic gymnasts
- California Golden Bears men's gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- 20th-century American sportsmen