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49-405: Previously only women had competed in the event. Men competed for the first time in 2022. The senior all-around winners of the U.S. Classic include Dominique Dawes (1993), Nastia Liukin (2005), Aly Raisman (2011, 2012, 2016), and Simone Biles (2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024). Following is a list of past senior elite and junior elite champions of the U.S. Classic: In recent years

98-604: A 10.00 instead of simply a full-twisting layout Yurchenko , which had been devalued to a 9.8. She made the first vault, but slipped and fell on the second, immediately bursting into tears. With the new rule that both vaults were averaged in all-around competition, her fall dropped her to 4th overall while Miller won the title. Famously, after the vault fall Dawes's coach Kelli Hill exhorted her to be proud of her performance anyway, stating: "When did you ever think you would be in that position? You have to be happy with yourself. Come on. Be happy. Stand up and wave". Dawes did so and earned

147-629: A business partnership with Juice Plus for a branded line of dietary supplements. Also in 2015, her autobiography, It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life, was published in 2015 by St. Martin's Press . Miller is the president of Shannon Miller Lifestyle and the Shannon Miller Foundation, which is dedicated to fighting childhood obesity . Miller married lawyer and ophthalmologist Christopher B. Phillips in June 1999. The couple separated in 2004, and their divorce

196-852: A commercial for Tide called "The Evolution of Power" prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics . She is set to guest star as herself with Gabby Douglas and Laurie Hernandez in the episode "A Perfect 10" of the second season of the Disney+ animated series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder , judging a gymnastics competition. Her music for floor routines: Dawes became engaged in December 2012 to teacher Jeff Thompson. Thompson taught at The Heights school in Potomac, Maryland. Dawes converted to Catholicism , and they married on May 25, 2013. The couple have four children: Kateri, Quinn, and twins Dakota and Lincoln (b. January 22, 2018). Dawes shared that she suffered

245-517: A flexible program that accommodated her training, travel and competition schedule. Miller's mother was a bank vice president, and her father was a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma . For most of her career, Miller was coached by Steve Nunno and Peggy Liddick , who went on to become the national coach of the Australian women's gymnastics team. As a 12-year-old, she finished third at

294-404: A near fatal miscarriage prior to becoming pregnant with her twin sons. Shannon Miller Shannon Lee Miller (born March 10, 1977) is an American former artistic gymnast . She was the 1993 and 1994 world all-around champion, the 1992 Summer Olympics all-around silver medallist, the 1996 Olympic balance beam champion, the 1995 Pan American Games all-around champion, and a member of

343-489: A silicone wristband with a hologram sticker really give you an added edge?" In the trial four bracelets were taped so no participant knew if the bracelet they were wearing contained the Power Balance hologram. One bracelet was the control with no hologram, another contained only a PEZ candy. From Wendy Hughes report "The claim was that if the hologram worked, the speed of the participants would increase, and it would show on

392-613: A single Olympic Games without winning gold. At the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham , Miller won every event in preliminaries, and television commentator Kathy Johnson , a 1984 Olympian, remarked that she had not seen a gymnast so dominant since Nadia Comăneci in 1976. Bart Conner agreed, stating that Miller could only be beaten if she faltered. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, its sports system had undergone upheaval, and most former Soviet gymnasts were not ready to mount

441-458: A standing ovation from the crowd. After this disappointment she rebounded in the event finals, winning two silver medals on bars and beam. The same fate befell her in at the 1994 Worlds . Leading after three events, she again came to vault with a chance of winning the title. This time her mistake came on the first vault where Dawes over-rotated and hurled forward into a somersault. Her low score dropped her to 5th. Her mistakes continued throughout

490-475: A sustained challenge in 1993. Miller, on the other hand, had reworked her routines to comply better with the new Code of Points . She won the all-around title, followed by gold medals on bars and floor. However, she fell three times in the beam final and withdrew from the vault final due to illness. At the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane , Miller again took the all-around title, beating Miloşovici and becoming

539-650: Is autistic , has also supported events for autism awareness, such as the 2001 Power of One rally in Washington D.C. She is presently on the Advisory Board of Sesame Workshop 's " Healthy Habits for Life " program and also works as a motivational speaker, concentrating on youth issues. In June 2010, President Obama appointed Dawes to be co-chair of the newly renamed President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition , along with New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees . She provided commentary for Yahoo's coverage of

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588-405: The 1996 Olympics . The team, later nicknamed Magnificent Seven , dominated the team competition. A key member of the team, Dawes performed without serious error and was the only team member to have all eight of her scores count towards the total. Along with Shannon Miller , Jaycie Phelps , Dominique Moceanu , Amanda Borden , Amy Chow and Kerri Strug , Dawes claimed her gold medal as part of

637-699: The Oklahoma Legislature named a section of Interstate 35 in Edmond, Oklahoma the Shannon Miller Parkway in her honor. In 2003, Miller graduated from the University of Houston with a B.B.A. in marketing and entrepreneurship. She entered Boston College Law School later that year and graduated in 2007. Afterward, however, she opted not to take the bar exam . She moved to Florida, where she made appearances at gyms, conducted beam clinics, and starred in workout DVDs. On October 21, 2015, Miller entered

686-588: The World Team Championships in Dortmund , Germany posting the third highest all-around score in the process. Dawes struggled through a difficult 1995 riddled by wrist and ankle injuries. She finished fourth at nationals and was forced to sit out the World Championships that year. At the 1996 World Championships , Dawes missed out on a medal on the uneven bars but tied Liu Xuan for a bronze medal on

735-544: The uneven bars (where she tied with Soviet gymnast Tatiana Gutsu ) and one in the team competition. She placed second to Soviet Svetlana Boginskaya during the compulsory portion of the competition. Due to injury, Miller missed the 1992 World Championships in Paris . Not quite back up to speed with her more difficult skills, she pulled out of the optionals competition at the National Championships and petitioned to

784-679: The 1989 Olympic Festival, a competition designed to showcase up-and-coming talent. She travelled to Europe in 1990 and 1991 for international meets and scored perfect 10s on the balance beam at the Swiss Cup and the Arthur Gander Memorial. At the 1991 Gander Memorial, she won the all-around with the highest total score ever recorded by an American woman under the traditional 10.0 scale: a 39.875. At her first World Championships in 1991 in Indianapolis , Miller won two silver medals: one on

833-501: The Beijing Olympics in 2008 and for the 2010 Winter Olympics . On October 28, 2010, Dawes was working for Yahoo Weekend News when she met with Center for Inquiry (CFI)'s investigative partner IIG to test Power Balance Bracelets for their claim that they improve balance, flexibility and strength. She states "The fact is, all athletes know that nothing can replace good old-fashioned hard work – practice, practice, practice...Can

882-783: The International Olympic Committee stripped China of its 2000 team medal for an underage competitor. Dawes attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland and Gaithersburg High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where she was the 1994 prom queen . She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002. Pursuing a career in acting, modeling, and television production, she has appeared in Prince 's music video "Betcha By Golly Wow" and Missy Elliott 's 2006 video "We Run This" in

931-591: The Olympic Trials, and earned a spot on her third Olympic team. In team preliminaries at the Sydney Olympics, Dawes posted the second highest score of the American team on uneven bars but the lowest on beam. In the team finals, she performed well on three events, contributing their highest beam score and 3rd highest bars score (a very high 9.7), and contributed to the team's bronze medal awarded April 28, 2010 when

980-505: The Olympic Trials. Although the result was controversial, Miller won the Trials over her rival, Kim Zmeskal , who was the 1991 world champion. Miller won the compulsory portion of the 1992 Olympic Games and scored the highest of any gymnast in the overall team competition, securing the bronze medal for the US women's team and advancing to the all-around final as the top-ranked gymnast in the world. In

1029-438: The U.S. Classic has been sponsored by various companies, and the event is typically named for the sponsoring company. Below is a list of past and present sponsors of the event, as well as the official name of the event during the period of sponsorship: Dominique Dawes Dominique Margaux Dawes (born November 20, 1976) is a retired American artistic gymnast . Known in the gymnastics community as 'Awesome Dawesome', she

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1078-602: The Women's International Sports Hall of Fame. She is the only woman, in any sport, to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame twice, as an individual and for her team. With seven Olympic and nine World Championship medals, Miller is one of the most decorated American gymnasts, male or female. She is tied with Nastia Liukin for third most World Championship medals (9) won by an American gymnast, behind Simone Biles (30) and Alicia Sacramone (10). In 1998,

1127-559: The World Championships in the Olympic year due to injury, and later the Olympic Trials. She was able to petition onto the American team as the top performer at Nationals, and the injury was sufficiently recovered by July to allow her to compete in her second Olympics. Miller led the American team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven , to the gold medal, edging the Russian team. Kerri Strug garnered

1176-496: The age of 12, she was sent to Australia to compete in her first international meet, the Konica Grand Prix. By the early 1990s, Dawes was achieving success both nationally and internationally. She placed 3rd in the all-around in the junior division at the 1990 U.S. National Championships. At the 1992 USA vs. Japan dual meet, the 15-year-old Dawes received a standing ovation, after an energetic floor routine in which she revived

1225-499: The all-around final, she missed out on the gold by the closest margin in Olympic history, finishing 0.012 points behind Gutsu. Her coach, Steve Nunno, claimed she was robbed of the gold medal by unfair judging. In event finals, she captured three more individual medals: a silver on balance beam and bronzes on uneven bars and floor exercise . Her haul of five Olympic medals was more than that of any other American athlete in Barcelona. She

1274-754: The all-around title at the World University Games . In 2000, Miller made a brief comeback attempt for the Sydney Olympics . She competed in the Olympic Trials, but after a fall on vault, she decided to withdraw from the competition despite being cleared by a doctor to continue. Miller is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame, the United States Olympic Hall of Fame the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame , and

1323-618: The back-to-back tumbling revolutionized by Soviet star Oksana Omelianchik . The judges were equally impressed, and gave her a perfect 10. Though she was not part of the 1991 World Championship team, Dawes continued to move up on the national and international scene throughout 1991 and 1992. She placed 4th at the 1992 Olympic trials and was awarded a place on the United States Olympic team. Despite battling very painful tendinitis in both ankles and Osgood-Schlatter disease during pre-Olympic training, Dawes performed respectably throughout

1372-437: The balance beam. At the 1996 U.S. National Championships Dawes swept all four event finals for the second time in her career making her the first gymnast ever to accomplish this feat twice. Dawes also finished first at the Olympic trials, earning a berth on the 1996 Olympic team at the age of 19. Dawes planned to attend Stanford University in fall 1995 but could not receive an athletic scholarship as she turned pro to train for

1421-415: The competition, even having the boldness to try a brand-new move in her balance beam routine during team competition - back handspring to three layout stepouts. She also won over the crowd with a solid optional floor exercise routine and, with a mark of 9.925, tied with Kim Zmeskal for the highest score for the American team on the event. The team won bronze, and Dawes and teammate Betty Okino became

1470-546: The end, she placed eighth, but she was the highest-ranking American in the competition. She also became the first American to win the balance beam final at the Olympics, as well as the first American woman to win an individual gold medal in a fully attended Olympics. She concluded her career with seven Olympic medals. Following the Olympics, Miller and her teammates participated in a 100-city tour and several exhibitions. She competed in her final international meet in 1997, when she won

1519-411: The event finals and left the championships without winning a single medal. Dawes would finish her year on a positive note, however. She dominated the National Championships placing first in the all-around and all four event finals at the expense of rival Shannon Miller. It was the first year since 1969 that a gymnast had swept the competition. She went on to lead the American team to a silver medal at

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1568-469: The first African American females to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics. Dawes only competed in the team competition in 1992, not breaking through as an all-around gymnast until 1993. She is probably best known for her performances at the 1993 and 1994 World Championships. In 1993, Dawes led the competition after three events, even beating her more famous teammate Shannon Miller . However, she decided to try her harder vault (1½ twisting layout Yurchenko) worth

1617-562: The first American gymnast to win back-to-back world all-around titles. She also won the beam title, which had eluded her the previous year, with a near-perfect exercise. Her winning streak ended in late 1994 at the Goodwill Games , where Dina Kochetkova of Russia, who had finished in third place at the World Championships, defeated her by a narrow margin, 39.325 to 39.268. Miller rebounded by earning gold medals on beam and floor and silver medals on vault and bars. She missed out on medals in

1666-451: The first American team to take the Olympic title. Another first, she became the first black woman of any nationality to win an Olympic gold in gymnastics. Later in the week, however, Dawes lost yet another opportunity to win a major all-around title. Going into the competition, she was considered one of the heavy favorites to medal. She was ranked sixth overall among all competitors after the team event, and her scores from team optionals were

1715-408: The gold medal-winning Magnificent Seven team at the 1996 Olympics. Miller is the second most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympics history, with a total of seven medals, surpassed only by Simone Biles in 2024. With a combined total of 16 World Championships and Olympic medals between 1991 and 1996, she is the second-most decorated American gymnast, male or female, surpassed only by Simone Biles . She

1764-489: The graph. But it didn't. Out of 64 heats, 16 participants using 4 bracelets in 4 random heats, the results were almost flat. The main result was that if there was any change, the familiarity with the course caused a slight increase in efficiency. The Pez didn't make a difference either." Dawes's conclusion is that superstition makes the Power Bracelet work. Dawes appeared with gymnasts Nadia Comăneci and Simone Biles in

1813-422: The highest on the American team and the second highest overall. Dawes led the competition after two rotations, with Shannon Miller right behind her. Both gymnasts were on Floor Exercise for the 3rd rotation. Miller had a substantial mistake in her routine, knocking her out of the medals. On the middle tumbling pass of Dawes's floor routine, she under-rotated for fear that she might step out of bounds; she sat down

1862-406: The highest total score of the American team but walked away without an individual medal. She placed seventh on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam, and had to withdraw from the vault and floor finals due to injury. Although struggling with severe tendinitis in her left wrist and a pulled hamstring, Miller won the 1996 National Championships. Once again, though, she was forced to sit out

1911-408: The majority of the media attention after landing her second vault on an injured foot, which forced her to withdraw from the all-around and event finals. But Miller, who was the team's highest scorer, placed second after the team competition behind Lilia Podkopayeva , qualifying her for her second Olympic all-around final. In the all-around, Miller was ranked second halfway through the competition. In

1960-612: The medals on Uneven Bars, but redeemed herself by winning Bronze in Floor Exercise finals, her first World Championship or Olympic medal in what had long been considered her best event. Between 1996 and 1998 Dawes competed in various professional meets but retreated from elite competition. She returned briefly in 1998 to participate in the Goodwill Games where she placed 19th in the Mixed Pairs event with Chainey Umphrey. However, she placed 9th all-around at 2000 U.S. Nationals and 7th at

2009-585: The role of Missy's gymnastics coach. Dawes also briefly appeared on Broadway in a revival of the musical Grease , playing cheerleader Patty Simcox. Dawes served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation from 2004 to 2006; she was the youngest president in the Foundation's history. She was the first spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of the USA 's "Uniquely Me" self-esteem campaign in 2002. Dawes, whose younger brother

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2058-562: The team competition and the mixed team competition, both of which saw fourth-place finishes for the United States. Two weeks later, Miller competed at the 1994 National Championships, where she won five silver medals, placing second to Dominique Dawes each time. Although she won the 1995 American Classic, Miller lost the 1995 National Championships to 13-year-old Dominique Moceanu . At the 1995 World Championships in Sabae, Japan , she amassed

2107-456: The tumbling pass (and went out of bounds anyway) causing her position to plummet in the standings. NBC cameras zoomed in on Dawes, sitting in tears as her score from floor exercise was announced (it was an even 9.000), which led to numerous boos from the audience. She managed to pull out a decent Vault score, but finished 17th overall. In the Event Finals, she placed sixth on Vault and just out of

2156-641: Was a 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, the 1994 U.S. all-around senior National Champion, a three-time Olympian, a World Championship silver and bronze medalist, and a member of the gold-medal-winning " Magnificent Seven " team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . She is also the Olympic bronze medalist on floor exercise from the Atlanta games. She is also one of only four female American gymnasts, along with Muriel Grossfeld , Linda Metheny-Mulvihill , and Simone Biles , to compete in three Olympics and

2205-470: Was also the most successful American athlete at the 1992 Olympics , winning five medals. Miller was born in Rolla, Missouri , but she and her family moved to Edmond, Oklahoma , when she was six months old. She began gymnastics when she was five and travelled to Moscow with her mother at the age of nine to participate in a gymnastics camp. As a teenager, Miller attended Edmond North High School , working with

2254-530: Was born in Silver Spring, Maryland , on November 20, 1976, to Don and Loretta Dawes of Takoma Park, Maryland . She enrolled in gymnastics at age 6 with coach Kelli Hill and won her first competition at age 9. In high school, she moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland , to be closer to her coach's gym. Dawes was competing as a junior elite by the age of 10. She placed 17th in the all-around junior division at her first U.S. National Championships in 1988. In 1989, at

2303-469: Was finalized in 2006. While Phillips accused Miller of infidelity with a married male athlete, Miller denied the claim, and it did not figure into the divorce grounds. In August 2007, Miller announced her engagement to John Falconetti, the president of Drummond Press and former chairman of the Republican executive committee of Duval County, Florida . They married on August 25, 2008, and have two children:

2352-477: Was one of only two female gymnasts, along with Lavinia Miloşovici of Romania, to compete in every event final at the Games, and she alone performed all sixteen of her routines without serious error. Thirteen of her routines scored a 9.9 or higher, with her lowest score being a 9.837 in the vault final. With her two silver and three bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Miller holds the record for most medals won at

2401-820: Was part of their medal-winning teams: Barcelona 1992 (bronze), Atlanta 1996 (gold), and Sydney 2000 (bronze). Dawes is the first female gymnast to be a part of three Olympic-medal-winning teams since Ludmilla Tourischeva won gold in Mexico City (1968), Munich (1972), and Montreal (1976). Since Dawes, Svetlana Khorkina and Simone Biles are the only gymnasts to accomplish this feat. Svetlana winning silver in Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000), and bronze in Athens (2004) and Simone winning gold in Rio (2016), silver in Tokyo (2020) and gold in Paris (2024). Dawes

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