Elise Ray doesn’t need to get a life. She already has two. During the school day, Ray is a senior at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia. For much of the rest of her time, Ray is a gymnast — a ...

Elise Ray was at a crossroads. After finishing her career as a gymnast at Michigan, she’d performed for Cirque du Soleil for three years, then worked briefly as a trainer and broadcaster. Like many ...

It's been a busy few days for Elise Ray of Columbia, and if everything goes as expected, her life is going to become a lot more hectic. On Saturday in St. Louis, Ray won the all-around competition ...

SYDNEY, Australia – Elise Ray never imagined the Olympics would be like this, the stuff of struggles endured instead of dreams achieved, of feeling a pop in her shoulder on a first routine and ...

Oh, Elise Ray had adversity, all right, just without the accompanying triumph. In fact, it took the new University of Washington gymnastics coach quite a while before she could even watch the ...

Karolyi couldn’t be on the floor yelling, “You can do it,” to Elise Ray when Ray’s shoulder popped out on the floor exercise. He couldn’t give Tasha Schwikert a big bear hug when the 15 ...

After winning the U.S. Olympic trials last weekend in Boston, Elise Ray of Columbia was named to the U.S. women's gymnastics team that will compete at next month's Olympic Games in Sydney.

Michigan needed every bit of help it received in the extremely close meet. Conveniently enough, yesterday marked the return of sophomore Elise Ray who had been suffering from a bruised heel. The ...

Kristen Maloney, Vanessa Atler and Elise Ray will compete in all four events for the United State women’s gymnastics team in the team portion of the World Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin ...

SEATTLE – University of Washington Director of Athletics Jennifer Cohen announced Wednesday that head women's gymnastics coach Elise Ray-Statz has resigned from her position, as Ray-Statz and her ...