Collegiate gymnast Katelyn Ohashi rocketed into internet fame with her 2019 floor routine.

Her routine is the most-watched sporting clip of 2019.

During her senior year, she scored the near-impossible perfect 10 more than once. She is only 21-years-old and competes for the UCLA gymnastics program. This program is known to be one of the best collegiate gymnastics programs in the country and attracts many Olympic athletes such as 2012’s Kyla Ross and Peng Peng Lee as well as 2016’s Madison Kocian.

Even before competing at the collegiate level, Ohashi has been making waves in the gymnastics world.

She is a 6-time All-American and 4-time member of the USA Gymnastics Junior National Team. in 2011, she competed in the junior national championship where she defeated Simone Biles for the first place medal. Yes, you read that right. This woman defeated THE Simone Biles.

Recently, her contributions to the sport exist in the collegiate world.

Her floor routines are impressive and charismatic at the same time. She performs with an effervescence that you cannot help but smile at because you know that she is having a great time out on the competition floor.

A video of her 2019 floor routine went viral and received more than 34 million views.

Where was she in Rio?

Some of you might be wondering why such a talented young lady was not at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Although Ohashi makes her flips seem effortless, they are not. They cause a lot of stress on the body and could lead to injury. Ohashi was competing in the Elite circuit early in her career. The stress became too much on her body and she injured her spine.

Her injury forced her to take time off of the sport and she realized that she didn’t want to compete elite anymore. She decided to back off elite gymnastics and compete in Level 10 instead. Level 10 is still difficult, but it is not as strict as an elite.

Her new position in Level 10 allowed her to fully recover from her injury and inject her routines with some pizzaz. It also afforded her the opportunity to compete in gymnastics for a university.

There are some regulations for collegiate athletes that make it so they cannot “go pro” and accept money for their sport before competing for a college. This regulation hits gymnasts the hardest since most of their career takes place before college. Many gymnasts, such as Jordan Weiber decide to go pro and forfeit their opportunity to compete in collegiate gymnastics.

All this happened for a reason though, because we were blessed with this gem of a routine.

The music is straight fire, the choreography was full of sass and the energy was off the charts incredible. Her teammates dance with her from the perimeter of the floor mats and most of the audience members want to do the same.

Thank you, Katelyn Ohashi. This routine was one of the best things to happen for collegiate gymnastics.

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Source: NCAA Gymnastics