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Katelyn Jong Season 2025

Katelyn Jong Season 2025

PositionAA
ClassFreshman
HometownAllen, Texas

Career Highs:
Vault – 9.950 at Alabama (2/21/25)
Bars – 9.925 vs. Oregon State (1/24/25); at Alabama (2/21/25)
Beam – 9.950 at Kentucky (1/31/25)
Floor – 9.900 vs. Oregon State (1/24/25)
AA – 39.500 at Lone Star Challenge (1/11/25); vs. Oregon State (1/24/25)

Awards and Honors
2025 SEC All-Freshman Team (Bars)
2024-25 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
SEC Freshman of the Week (January 28, 2025)

2025: Competed in the all-around in six of seven meets competed leading up to her season-ending Achilles injury at the end of February … Finished with a 39.380 NQS in the all-around … Reached a career-best 39.500 two times – at Lone Star Challenge (1/11) and vs. Oregon State (1/24) … Won two all-around titles as a freshman – at Lone Star Challenge and vs. Arkansas (1/17) … Totaled a 39.475 vs. the Razorbacks … Finished with a 9.905 NQS on bars, earning SEC All-Freshman Team accolades … Never scored below a 9.875 on bars, having six scores of 9.9 or better in the event … Had four bars titles on the year … Earned a career-high 9.925 twice – vs. Oregon State and at Alabama (2/21) … Scored four 9.9s on bars – at Music City Championship (1/4), at Lone Star Challenge, vs. Arkansas, at Kentucky (1/31) … Put together a 9.865 NQS on beam … Had three scores of 9.9 or better … Earned a career-high 9.95 and the beam title at Kentucky … Scored a 9.9 at the Lone Star Challenge for the event win … Added a 9.925 on beam vs. Oregon State … Had a 9.820 NQS on vault, having four scores of better of 9.875 … That included a career-high 9.95 on vault at Alabama, winning the event title … Added a 9.9 on floor vs. Oregon State for her career all-around performance … Had five scores of 9.8 or better on floor in seven meets competed in the event. 

Prior to Auburn: Elite-level gymnast and member of the 2023 U.S. National Team … Earned two international assignments in 2024 – Baku World Cup & Jesolo Trophy … Finished third on bars at Bako and fifth on bars at Jesolo … Team USA came in third at Jesolo … Competed on bars at the 2024 Winter Cup, Core Hydration Classic and Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships, earning top six finishes at all three … Came in second on bars at Winter Cup … Finished fifth on bars and sixth in the all-around at the 2023 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships … Came in fifth in the all-around at the 2023 Core Hydration Classic … Finished fifth on beam at the 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships … Had a successful junior elite career, winning the 2021 national title in the all-around … Finished second on floor and third on vault at the 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Championships at the junior level … Won four of five possible titles at the 2021 U.S. Classic – all-around, vault, bars, beam … Took second on floor at that same meet.
 
Personal: Daughter of Yoomin and Simon Jong … Has a sister, Ariana … A kinesiology major with the College of Education. 

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