final, bringing an end to a very disappointing Olympics for USA Gymnastics. Post-Olympics After Sydney, Elise attended the University of Michigan on a full athletic scholarship, where she majored in English. She crowned a very successful NCAA career by leading her team to the Super Six finals in 2005, and winning a silver on beam. Previously, she tied (with Onnie Willis of UCLA) for the all-around title in 2001 and won golds in the balance beam (2002) and uneven bars (2004) events. She performed for three years in Cirque du Soleil, where she was a member of the Cadre team in the Las Vegas resident show O. She also performed in the Cirque Show, Love. Ray also serves occasionally as a color commentator for Big Ten Network broadcasts of women's gymnastics. She coached at Carroll Gymnastics Center in Hampstead, Maryland, afterward. On April 28, 2010, Elise and the other women on the 2000 Olympic team were awarded the bronze medal in the team competition when it was discovered that the previous medal winners, the Chinese team, had falsified the age of team member Dong Fangxiao. As a result of the falsification, Dong's results were nullified, and the Chinese team was stripped of the medal by the IOC. The U.S. team was given their bronze medals at a special ceremony prior to the men's competition at the U.S. Championships in August 2010. On September 22, 2011, Elise joined the Washington Huskies gymnastics program as an assistant coach, replacing her former Michigan teammate Shanna Hannan. She is reunited with head coach Joanne Bowers, who was an assistant coach at Michigan. On May 27, 2016, Ray was named the new head coach of the Huskies program following the resignation of previous coach Joanne Bowers; she had been with the University of Washington for five years. Ray resigned her coaching position in October 2020, as she and her family moved away from the Seattle area. Eponymous skills Ray has three eponymous uneven bars skills listed in the Code of Points. Additional achievements Elise Ray graduated from the University of Michigan with the most All-America honors (14) in the program's history. Elise Ray is the Big Ten Conference's all-time leader in Gymnast of the Week citations, earning nine in her career. External links and resources GoHuskies.com bio USA Gymnastics biography References American female artistic gymnasts Michigan Wolverines women's gymnasts Olympic bronze medalists for the United