Jade Carey will remain at Oregon State as she pursues Paris 2024 berth
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist told Olympics.com last month she feels prepared to handle the demands of both collegiate and elite gymnastics
Artistic Gymnastics
Tokyo 2020 Olympic floor exercise champion Jade Carey of the United States announced on Tuesday (9 May) that she will remain at Oregon State University while training to make the U.S. squad for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
“I am excited to share that I will be remaining at Oregon State while pursuing my dreams of the 2024 Olympics,” Carey wrote in a post shared on her social media channels.
Carey, who has helped Oregon State reach record heights in her first two seasons and finished the 2023 regular season as the top-ranked all-around gymnast, will be bucking recent trends among collegiate gymnasts vying for the Olympic Games.
Ahead of the Tokyo Games, MyKayla Skinner, the 2020 vault silver medalist, left the University of Utah after her junior year to return to her club gym in Arizona.
Two of Carey’s fellow Tokyo Olympians are also leaving their universities to train for the Paris Games. Jordan Chiles is set to return to World Champions Centre in Houston, Texas, while leaving the door open for a return to the UCLA team afterward.
Meanwhile, Tokyo 2020 Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee has similarly returned to her training base in the Minneapolis area after two seasons at Auburn University. She has said that her sophomore year would be her last at Auburn.
Last month, Carey told Olympics.com that she felt she understood how to balance the demands of both college and elite gymnastics, having done it in 2022.
“I feel like this year I'm even more prepared for elite than I was last year,” she said after practice at the NCAAs, where she competed as a beam specialist. “Last year, it being the first year doing [both], it was very new and we didn't really know what to expect. But now we do. So I've been able to do a little bit more elite in my training than I was last year."
Following her freshman year at OSU, Carey competed at the 2022 World Championships, helping Team USA to a record-setting sixth straight women’s team title and claiming the individual gold medal on the vault.