Did Mary Lou Retton’s daughter go to the Olympics?

Did Mary Lou Retton’s daughter go to the Olympics?

But McKenna Kelley, who exhibits the same spitfire tumbling and megawatt smile that made her mother famous at the 1984 Olympic Games, never felt she had to be “the new Mary Lou,” as every U.S. gymnastics prodigy since has been labeled at one time or another.

Who is Mary Lou married to?

Mary Lou Retton

Why did Mary Lou divorce?

“It was that we grew apart,” she says. Though Retton felt lonely throughout the process, she says she had the support of the couple’s four daughters — Shayla, 23, McKenna, 21, Skyla, 18, and Emma, 16. “My daughters were amazing,” she says.

What college does Mary Lou Retton’s daughter go to?

(She shared the title with Mackenzie Brannan.) McKenna then took her gymnastics career to the collegiate level at Louisiana State University. In her senior year, she scored a 9.8875 in the vault competition at the NCAA Team Finals.