Sharon Shapiro
Sharon Shapiro is an American former gymnast. She won five gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games. In 1978, she was the U.S. National Champion in the vault. She was a two-time National Collegiate All-Around Champion. In 1981, she won the Honda-Broderick Award as the nation's most outstanding collegiate women's gymnast. Early life Shapiro's hometowns were Arleta and Sepulveda, California. She is Jewish. She attended Monroe High School, graduating in 1979. Gymnastics career Shapiro was a United States women's national gymnastics team member from 1976–78 and 1979-81. She won five gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in individual and team gymnastics, when she was 15 years of age. In 1978, she was won the U.S. National Championship in the vault at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation Women's Championships in Uniondale, New York. That year she also became the first U.S. woman gymnast to score as 39.05 points out of a possible 40, which she did at an invitational meet in Fresno, California. Shapiro competed in gymnastics for the UCLA Bruins. She won UCLA's first individual national title in women's gymnastics and made history at 17 years of age as a true freshman at the 1980 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for