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2025 Women's Gymnastics Roster

Elia Aird

Elia Aird

  • Position:
    Vault, Beam, Floor
  • Height:
    5-3
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Winter Garden, Fla.
  • High School:
    Windermere
  • Major:
    Exercise Science

Summary

Biography

Awards & Honors
  • 2023 WCGA Scholastic All-America
  • 2023 and 2024 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
  • 2023 and 2024 Academic All-Big Ten
  • 2022 Big Ten Gymnast to Watch

CAREER HIGHS
VT UB BB FX AA
9.875 9.875 9.850 9.900 39.200

2025 (Senior):
  • Placed 3rd out of 24 (9.800) in Vault at the Rutgers March Quad (03/07).
  • Placed second on vault at MLK Jr. quad (1/13) with a 9.750
  • Tied career high on beam (9.850) at American Gold Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Classic (1/4), helping the beam team score a 49+ for the first time in a season opener.
2024 (Junior):
  • Scored a 9.850 (floor) at the Big Ten Championships, matching her season high score (3/23).
  • T-1st of 12 (vault) in a dual with West Virginia (3/10)
  • Scored a 9.800 on bars to tie for the title, earning T-1st of 24 in a Quad-meet with Cornell, West Chester, and Ursinus (3/2)
  • Scored a season-high 9.850 on bars, tying for 3rd of 24 in the New Hampshire Quad Meet (2/11/24).
  • Scored a 9.775 (vault), 9.700 (bars), 9.800 (beam), and 9.850 (floor) for her new career high, over Iowa (2/8).
  • Returned to the all-around this season, improving her career-best with a 39.125 against Penn State, surpassing her previous standard of 38.975, against Iowa (2/8).
  • Finished second in Vault, with a score of 9.850, pushing Rutgers to another 49.025, the second consecutive week with the Scarlet Knights above a 49 in the event, in a dual-meet with Illinois (2/4).
  • Scored a 9.775 in Bars, ranking T-5th of 12, against Illinois (2/4)
  • Stuck a 9.875 career-high tying vault to place first in the event, her first event victory of 2024, over Maryland (1/19).
  • Returned to all-around duty with a 38.625, paced by a 9.800 on bars in a dual-meet with Maryland (1/19).
2023 (Sophomore)
  • Recorded career-high 9.875 on vault in regular season finale victory over UPenn & West Virginia, contributing to a program-record team score of 196.875 and tying the school vault record with a 49.272 (3/12).
  • Set a new bars PR (9.875) at the Georgia Quad (1/16), placing third in the event.
  • Recorded career-highs on bars (9.800) and beam (9.850), tying for the beam title at Rutgers' home opener on 1/14.
  • Competed in the all-around for the first time in her collegiate career at the Super 16 Collegiate Challenge in Las Vegas.
  • Recorded a career-high 9.900 on floor exercise at the Super 16 to place third in the event.
2022 (Freshman): Competed in one meet for Rutgers...Made collegiate debut for the Scarlet Knights competing on bars in the home-opening quad meet (1/15).

Prior to Rutgers: JO National Qualifier...Club Gymnastics 2008-2021...top 3% in high school graduating class.

Personal: Daughter of Irma and Gabre Aird...has three siblings Gabriel, Joshua and Imani... brother Gabriel ran track at the University of Florida.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

    All-Around
  • 2023Sophomore

    All-Around
    5'3"
  • 2024Junior

    All-Around
    5'3"
  • 2025Senior

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'3"
  • 2025Senior

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'3"
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