Kyla Briana Ross (born October 24, 1996) is an American artistic gymnast who is a member of the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Kyla Ross Ross at the 2012 Secret US Classic Personal information Full name Kyla Briana Ross Nickname(s) Mighty Mouse[1] Country represented  United States Born October 24, 1996 (age 16) Honolulu, Hawaii Residence Aliso Viejo, California Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics Level Senior International Elite Club Gym-Max Gymnastics Head coach(es) Jenny Zhang and Howie Liang Former coach(es) Sandy Dornbuch, Katherine Anderson, Debra Hutchinson, and Nikolai Dorochenko Music The Phantom of the Opera Medal record[hide] Women's gymnastics Competitor for  United States Olympic Games Gold 2012 London Team Pacific Rim Championships Gold 2010 Melbourne Team Gold 2012 Seattle Team Gold 2012 Seattle Balance Beam Silver 2012 Seattle All-Around Silver 2012 Seattle Uneven Bars Bronze 2012 Seattle Floor Exercise

Personal life

Kyla Ross was born on October 24, 1996 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Jason and Kiana Ross. Her father is of black and Japanese ancestry, and her mother is of Filipino and Puerto Rican descent.^[3] She has two younger siblings, and she attends Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo, California.^[4]
Ross's mother has said that her daughter was always very strong with a lot of energy. "She was born with muscles. We would go to the park and everybody would say 'Whose baby is on top of that jungle gym?' And I would say 'Oh, that's my baby. Don't worry about her, she's fine.'"^[5] Her father added, "It would use all my effort to get her to sit in her car seat, and I'm a pretty big guy, a strong guy. When she was born, we were like, 'Oh my goodness, she has triceps, she has quads hanging off her. What the heck's going on?’ And she was just super strong. I mean, at an early age, she was able to walk across the monkey bars, just hanging herself.

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