Birthplace: Vancouver, BC
Year of Birth: 2000
Club: Flicka Gymnastics / University of Alabama
Favourite Event: Vault & Floor
Sr. National Team since: 2016
Follow me on Twitter: @Shallonolsen
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4th on Vault at the 2019 World Championships...Bronze medalist on Vault at the 2019 Pan Am Games...
World Silver Medalist on Vault in 2018 and best-ever result for Team Canada who finished 4th...2018 Commonwealth Games Triple Medalist; Gold with Team, Vault and 3rd on Floor... 7th on Vault at her first World Championships in 2017. Captured two silvers at first-ever World Cup in Varna in 2017 (floor & vault)… Gold medallist on vault at 2017 Jesolo Cup… Qualified for vault finals at 2016 Olympic Games after debuting an Amanar vault in qualifiers… Was youngest member of Team Canada in Rio at 16…
Family: Parents Tony Olsen and Jayne Chow-Olsen… Older brother Chas…
Getting into the Sport: Started in gymnastics at age 3… By that age was the fastest bike rider in the family and needed the right environment to channel her energy…
Outside Interests: Enjoys reading, doing word searches, baking, biking, going to the movies… Sometimes coaches gymnastics at birthday parties… Grade 11 student…
Odds and Ends: Nicknames: Shally, Doll Face… Admires the long lines of American Olympic champion Nastia Liukin and the elegance of Romania’s multi-world medallist Larisa Iordache, which she would like to emulate…
Favourite motto: “No matter how impossible, unattainable or unimaginable something may seem, never give up, Surprise everyone.”