World Olympic Gymnastics Academy
The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco and Plano. WOGA was founded in 1994 by Valeri Liukin, a 1988 Olympic champion who later served as USA Gymnastics women's national team coordinator, and Yevgeny Marchenko, a World Sports acrobatic champion who coached gold medalist Carly Patterson. Edouard Larov, a former coach of Liukin and the USSR and Canadian national teams, also trained gymnasts at the club. In 2003, WOGA gymnasts Patterson and Hollie Vise won two individual medals and contributed to the first team gold for the United States at the World Championships. In 2004, Patterson became the second American gymnast to become the women's Olympic all-around gymnastics champion, and the first American to do so in a non-boycotted Olympics. WOGA hosts an annual meet at the Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas, which has competitions from levels 1 to 10 and an international elite competition that has featured competitors such as Mira Boumejmajen, Marine Brevet, Madeline Gardiner, Laurie Hernandez, Katelyn Ohashi, and Jordyn Wieber. Notable gymnasts WOGA is home to three Olympic champions: Patterson (Athens 2004), Nastia Liukin (Beijing 2008), and Madison Kocian (Rio 2016); and seven world champions: Patterson (2003), Hollie Vise (2003),