CAREER BESTS
Event | Score | Date | Opponent |
All Around | 39.475 | 2/26/16 | Unite for Her |
Vault | 9.875 | 3/12/16 | Big Five Qualifier |
Uneven Bars | 9.950 | 1/9/16 | North Carolina State |
Balance Beam | 9.900 | 2/6/16 | Michigan State |
Floor Exercise | 9.900 | 2/26/16 | Unite for Her |
2016 (Junior Year)
Appeared in the uneven bars and balance beam lineup in 11 out of 12 meets...Competed in 11 of 12 meets on the year...2016 Regular Season All-American (second team - uneven bars)...Big Ten All-Championships Team...All-Big Ten First Team...Championship season: At the Big Ten Championships (3/19), Brown tied for the uneven bars title, tying her career best score of 9.950...Brown’s title at the 2016 Big Ten Championships is the 17th event title in program history...Regular season: In the season-opening meet against North Carolina State (1/9), Brown won the uneven bars (9.950) and finished second all-around (38.950)...Her score of 9.950 on the uneven bars tied the number three performance in school history...Against Nebraska (1/16), Brown placed third on the uneven bars with a score of 9.825...Against Illinois (1/29), Brown finished second on the vault (9.825) and finished third on the beam (9.850), her score of 39.150 placed her fourth in the all-around..Against Michigan State (2/6), Brown scored a career-best on the balance beam (9.900) for a first place finish and she finished first on the uneven bars (9.900)...She also finished second in the all-around with a 39.200...Against Ohio State (2/13) she took first place on the uneven bars (9.925) and finished third on floor (9.850)... Brown won the all-around and scored a then-career-high 39.325...Brown earned a then-career-high in the all-around in a quad meet featuring Alabama, Cornell and Denver with a score of 39.400 placing third overall (2/20)...At Maryland (2/22) Brown, won the vault (9.825), the uneven bars (9.900) and the all around (39.350)...In a five-team meet featuring Southern Connecticut, Temple, West Chester and West Virginia (2/26), Brown earned her third all around title this season scoring a career-best of 39.475...Won her sixth uneven bars title (9.850) of the season and tied for her fourth all-around title (39.175) against Arizona State (3/4)...At the Big Five Qualifier (3/12), Brown tied for fifth on the vault with her career-best 9.875, tallied a second-place finish on the uneven bars with her score of 9.900 and tied a career-best 9.900 to tie for fifth on the balance beam.
Gymnastics Background
Trained at World Class Gymnastics in Newport News, Virginia, under coaches Tami Harrison and Troy Miller…2011 Level 10 state uneven bars champion, second on floor and in the all-around…2011 regional uneven bars champion…Member of the 2011 Junior Olympic National Team, finishing third in the all-around…Region 7 all stars team member that traveled to Switzerland…2012 state uneven bars champion and third in the all-around…2012 regional vault champion…2012 National Invitational Tournament uneven bars champion and fourth in the all-around…2012 Atlanta Crown Invitational vault, uneven bars champion and all-around winner…Before coming to Penn State, she attended the University of Georgia and trained under coach Danna Durante…Named All-SEC in 2014 after she tied for second on the uneven bars at the SEC Championship…Named the SEC Freshman of the week after tying for first on bars against Iowa…Finished the 2014 season tied for 19th nationally on the uneven bars…Was the first to score three consecutive 9.95’s on the uneven bars for the Gym Dogs.
Personal
Born Kiera Camille Brown in Decatur, Georgia, on January 6, 1995...Daughter of Camille and Ken Brown...Has one younger sibling, Kyah Brown...Names singing and cooking as her favorite hobbies, Chris Brown as her favorite musical entertainer, English as her favorite subject and anything Italian, like spaghetti or pizza, as her favorite foods...Says “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” is her favorite television show, “She’s the Man” is her favorite movie, Channing Tatum is her favorite actor, Angelina Jolie is her favorite actress and Florida is her favorite place to visit...Majoring in communication arts & sciences.
Why Penn State?
“I liked the academic side of things and how Penn State takes the time to make sure you succeed in whatever you want to do. As far as the athletic side of things, the team and coaches were very welcoming and it just felt like home.”