2020 panelists
Katelyn Ohashi
Katelyn Ohashi practically broke the internet with her viral floor routine that earned multiple 10.0 scores. She is an eight-time All-American, four-time member of USA Gymnastics’ Junior National Team, the 2011 Junior National Champion, and winner of the 2013 American Cup. As a college gymnast, she truly learned to enjoy the sport and release the pressures and injustices she had endured from her early elite years of competition.
Maggie Nichols
Former elite and division 1 college gymnast at University of Oklahoma. 2020 Big 12 Gymnast of the Year and 2019 & 2018 NCAA All around champion. She ranks fourth all-time for career perfect 10s in NCAA History. Nichols was the first brave athlete to report that former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar had sexually abused her. Her story — and that of the hundreds of other young athletes assaulted by Nassar — is documented in the new Netflix film Athlete A.
Samantha Peszek
2008 Olympic silver medalist, three-time NCAA champion, 17-time All American for UCLA and the founder of Beam Queen Bootcamp. She is also a Pac-12 commentator for which she has recently won an Emmy.
Toni-Ann Williams
A former elite and division 1 college gymnast at UC Berkeley who also was the first Jamaican gymnast to compete in the Olympics of 2016. She coaches gymnastics at Towson University and is currently on the Athlete board committee for Jamaica Gymnastics as an advocate for the voices of the young gymnasts in the country.
Morgan Chall
Former division 1 college gymnast at Cornell, ECAC champion, two-time Ivy League champion, current Master’s student at Columbia, and founder of Chall Sports Consulting, LLC. She recently completed her term as Chairwoman of the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at the NCAA, where she represented 176,200 Division I athletes in the NCAA governance process, advocating for name, image and likeness reform, mental health, and improved diversity and inclusion within hiring practices in athletics administration.
Olivia Lubarsky
Recent alum of the Towson University college gymnastics team and 2020-2021 WCGA CGGI Ambassador. Founder of Own your Roar through which she seeks to unite mental health and athletics. 2020 TedX Speaker - through which she brought light to the importance of mental health education for student-athletes.
Kassandra Lopez
Former Division 1 gymnast for the University of Utah where she achieved All-American on bars, All-Pac-12 on bars, NCAA Regional runner-up on bars and beam, and she was the beam anchor in the 2012 NCAA semis which secured Utah's berth in Super Six. She was also 2nd in the all-around at 2010 Nastia Liukin Cup. She recently graduated with a Masters in Public Health from George Washington University.