riley mccusker

The amazingly graceful athlete Riley McCusker is a Gold-medal winning artistic gymnast and a six-time member of the United States women’s national gymnastics team. She is the 2019 Pan American Games and 2017 United States national uneven bars champion, and was a member of the gold-medal winning American team at the 2018 World Championships and the 2019 Pan American Games.

Born in Connecticut and raised in New Jersey, McCusker was prolific at gymnastics from a young age, and was at Level 10 by the time she was 12-years-old in 2014. She had an incredibly successful junior career, and in 2016 she had won four silver medals at the P&G National Championships. She was still only 15 when she moved up to senior level, winning her first Gold medal in 2017 in the Team event at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy, as well as individual Golds for All-Around and balance beam, and a Silver in uneven bars. She won three more medals, a Gold, Silver, and Bronze, at the P&G National Championships. 2018 proved to be just as successful with four more Golds, seven Silvers, and three Bronze, which included a Team Gold at the World Championships in Doha.

2019 saw McCusker claim two Golds at the Pan American Games, one in the Team event and one for uneven bars. She also claimed four more Silvers and two more Bronzes that year. In November she signed her National Letter of Intent with the Florida Gators, starting in the 2020-21 school year. She deferred attending the University of Florida until after the Olympic Games, which were postponed until 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She returned to gymnastics in 2021 at the Winter Cup, winning Silver in uneven bars. She won a second silver in the same discipline at the U.S. National Championships.

McCusker regularly connects with her legions of followers and fans through Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, posting pictures and videos about her life around gymnastics.