Alex Archer Class: Freshman Hometown: Newport Beach, Calif. High School: Newport Harbor Height: 5-7 Club: Precision Gymnastics

Alex Archer

Club/High School: Won three Southern California championships, including the Level 10 uneven bars title in 2010 ... captured a Level 10 silver on the uneven bars at the 2010 regionals, was second on vault in 2011 and fifth all-around ... trained under coaches Trent and Jill Spaulding at Precision Gymnastics of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. ... a two-time qualifier for the Junior Olympic nationals ... trained at New Hope and Wildfire, SCEGA, and Team EC, before moving on to Precision.

Personal: Daughter of Joe Archer and Donna Merrigan Archer ... sister McKenna is a junior on the Cornell University gymnastics team ... born in Newport Beach, Calif. ... carried a 4.0 grade-point average at Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, Calif. ... a member of the California Scholarship Federation and the National Society of High School Scholars ... began gymnastics at age 2 with the Costa Mesa Parks & Rec program.