Player Bio: Stephanie Johnson - UCLA Official Athletic Site
April 17, 2013
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Stephanie Johnson
Class: Senior
Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
High School: Greenhills HS
Height: 5-3
Club: Gym America
2000 — Team co-captain … Earned Academic All-America honors by the NACGC for the second consecutive year (3.91 GPA) …?Saw action in two meets … Competed for the first time in her career on beam Feb. 11 … Hit a 9.575 on vault Feb. 27.
1999 — Named an Academic All-American by the NACGC (3.84 GPA) … Competed on vault five times … Her first collegiate vault scored a 9.575 at Penn State … Recorded a career-high 9.625 at Oregon State.
Club — A powerful vaulter who won the AAU National vault championship and placed third on bars in 1997 … Region 5 vault champion in 1996 … Competed at J.O. Nationals in 1996 and 1997 … All-around and beam runner-up at the 1997 state meet … Also placed third on bars and vault at that meet … Placed sixth all-around and fourth on beam at the 1997 Regionals … Placed seventh in the all-around and second on vault at the 1997 East Coast Classic …?Did not compete in 1998 due to a torn ACL.
Personal — Began gymnastics at age two … Honor roll student and member of the Cum Laude Society at Greenhills HS … Listed in the Who's Who Among American High School Students … Listed her biggest thrill as winning vault at the 1996 Regionals and in making Nationals … Olympian Amanda Borden is her favorite athlete … Hobbies include reading, shopping and dancing … Parents: Frank and Sharon Johnson … Has two younger brothers, Ross and Brent … Full name is Stephanie Nichelle Johnson … Born March 23, 1980 in her hometown … Business-Economics major with a Political Science minor.