Aleah Finnegan

She finished 23rd in the all-around after falling during three of the four apparatuses on the first night of competition.

Aleah Finnegan Cruz (born January 4, 2003) is a Filipino-American artistic gymnast.

She began gymnastics in 2005 and moved with her family to Kansas City in 2008 to train at Great American Gymnastics Express.

Sarah was an alternate for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team, and Hannah competed for the Philippines at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.

She also placed second on vault behind Jade Carey, 12th on uneven bars, 10th on balance beam, and seventh on floor exercise.

After the competition, she was named to the team to compete at the Pan American Games alongside Eaker, Morgan Hurd, Riley McCusker, and Leanne Wong.

At the Pan American Games Finnegan competed on vault and floor, with both her scores contributing towards the USA's gold medal winning performance.

Individually, Finnegan qualified to the vault final in fourth, behind Ellie Black of Canada, Yesenia Ferrera of Cuba, and Martina Dominici of Argentina.

She also posted the fourth highest floor exercise score in the competition, but because teammates McCusker and Eaker scored higher than her, she was unable to compete in the final due to the two-per-country rule.

On the first day of event finals, it was announced that Finnegan had withdrawn from the vault final due to injury.

At the National Championships, Finnegan finished 13th in the all-around.

She also placed fourth on vault, 13th on bars, 15th on beam, and sixth on floor.

She was not named to the national team, but it was announced that she would receive an invite to the Worlds selection camp.

Finnegan competed at the U.S. World Championship trials on only the balance beam, receiving a score of 13.200, finishing 12th on the event.

She was not named to the World Championship team after the trials.

In August, she competed at her first National Championships where she placed 14th in the all-around, fourth on vault, 18th on uneven bars and balance beam, and 15th on floor exercise.

Finnegan was a Junior Olympic athlete and competed at the 2016 and 2017 J.O Nationals.

In 2016, she placed 29th in the all-around and seventh on the balance beam.

In 2017, she won gold in the all-around for the Junior-B division.

In 2018, Finnegan qualified to junior elite at Brestyan's National Qualifier.

She made her elite debut at the American Classic in July where she finished sixth in the all-around but won bronze on the balance beam.

Later that month, she competed at the 2018 U.S. Classic where she placed seventh in the all-around.

She was a member of the United States' women's national gymnastics team from 2019 to 2021 and was part of the team that won gold at the 2019 Pan American Games.

She is currently representing the Philippines in international competition and will represent the Philippines at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

She is the 2023 Asian Championships vault and balance beam bronze medalist and the 2021 Southeast Asian Games team and vault champion.

She also currently competes for the LSU Tigers gymnastics team and is the 2023 NCAA floor exercise silver medalist.

Finnegan was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Don and Linabelle Finnegan.

Her mother was born and raised in the Philippines.

She has three sisters, Sarah, Hannah, and Jennah.

Her father died in August 2019.

Finnegan turned senior in 2019.

In February, she was named to the team to compete at the International Gymnix in Montreal alongside Alyona Shchennikova, Sloane Blakely, and GAGE teammate Kara Eaker.

While there, she won gold in the team final and on vault; she received the fifth highest score in the all-around but did not place due to teammates Eaker and Shchennikova placing higher.

In June, Finnegan was named as one of the eight athletes being considered for the team to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games.

At the 2019 GK US Classic, Finnegan placed seventh in the all-around.

After the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games, Finnegan had surgery to fix a fracture in the navicular bone.

In November 2020, she signed her National Letter of Intent with Louisiana State University.

In May 2021, Finnegan competed at the GK U.S. Classic, finishing fifth in the all-around behind Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Kayla DiCello, and Grace McCallum.

Additionally, she placed seventh on both the balance beam and floor exercise.

The following month, she competed at the National Championships.