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1999 - Tore the ACL in her left knee for the second time in two years during pre-season practice and did not compete...Redshirted the season and still has four years of eligibility remaining...Named an Academic All-American by the NACGC with a 3.556 GPA..
Club - U.S. National Team member who placed 13th all-around at the 1997 USA Championships...Competed against several Olympians at the 1997 Chunichi Cup and placed eight in the all-around and on beam, seventh on vault and bars and sixth on floor...Vault runner-up at the 1997 U.S. Classic...Placed third in the all-around and vault and first on bars at the junior division of the 1996 U.S. Classic...Competed at the 1995 and 1996 USA Championships...Trained at Gym-Max with fellow Bruin Valerie Velasco under coach Howie Liang.
Personal - Won junior state championships in the 50m dash and high jump and also participated in soccer, swimming and skiing before taking up gymnastics...Names her biggest athletic thrills as making the U.S. National Team in 1997 and competing against favorite gymnasts Svetlana Khorkina, Gina Gogean and Simona Amanar at the Chunichi Cup in Japan...Hobbies include swimming and dancing...Favorite apparatus is the uneven bars...Parents: Les and Betty Young...Father Les, who went to school at UCLA, is a professor at Cal Poly Pomona...Has an older sister, Lisa...Uncle Tyler Jung graduated from UCLA...Full name is Amy Elizabeth Young...Born July 25, 1980 in her hometown...Undeclared major.
