Mackenzie Caquatto is an American artistic gymnast. She is currently on the US National Team. Her younger sister, Bridgette Caquatto, is also an elite gymnast currently on the senior US National Team. She first qualified as an elite gymnast in 2007 and competed at the 2007 US National Championships, where she finished 17th.

Mackenzie competed as a senior for the first time at the 2008 US National Championships and placed 10th overall. She was selected to be a member of her first national team and qualified to the 2008 US Olympic Team Trials, but competed only on the first day of competition, placing 12th in the all-around on that day.

In 2009, Caquatto competed at her first international meets as a member of the national team. Caquatto suffered a knee injury shortly after but managed to place 5th at the 2009 US National Championships. She she was then invited to the world championships selection camp. She was named as the first alternate for the team. In addition to her status as an alternate, she was sent to the Toyota International in Toyota City, Japan. At this competition, she competed on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise; winning the silver medal on the uneven bars with a score of 14.675, only behind world silver medalist on the event Koko Tsurumi

Koko Tsurumi

is a Japanese artistic gymnast. She is the 2009 World all-around bronze medalist and uneven bars silver medalist.Tsurumi was a member of the 2008 Japanese Olympic Team. The women's gymnastics team placed 5th in team competition...

 of Japan.

Caquatto started her 2010 season by competing at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where she had the highest beam score but made mistakes on the floor which kept her from medaling in the all-around. Caquatto competed at the 2010 CoverGirl Classic and placed 3rd in the all-around, scoring the second highest on vault and the uneven bars but falling from the balance beam. She had qualified to compete at the 2010 US National Championships. At the 2010 US National Championships, Mackenzie placed 5th in the all-around. She fell on a simple change grip skill on the uneven bars, her best event, placing 4th.

After the US Nationals, Mackenzie was selected to attend a selection camp for the 2010 World Championships. From there, she advanced to the second camp where she won the all-around competition. She was eventually selected to compete.

At the World Championships, Mackenzie competed in the all-around in the qualifying round. After hitting all her routines without major error, she placed 9th individually and 3rd with the team. Although the top 24 qualifiers advance to the individual all-around final, she was left out because fellow American athletes Alexandra Raisman

Alexandra Raisman

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 and Rebecca Bross

Rebecca Bross

Rebecca Bross is an American artistic gymnast. She won the all-around and three events at the junior national championships in 2007. At the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, Bross won a team gold, individual all-around second, and the first place in floor exercise. She was a member of the U.S...

 had qualified ahead of her and only two athletes from each country can qualify to a final.

After the qualifying round, Mackenzie was selected to compete on the uneven bars and the vault during the team finals. She contributed a 14.666 on the bars and a 15.000 on the vault to help the team win the silver medal behind Russia and ahead of China.

She competed as a Florida gator at the NCAA level for the 2010-2011 season where she became injured but still competed the all-around for her team at the NCAA Championships. After finishing the NCAA season, Mackenzie decided to train for a comeback to elite gymnastics for the 2011 season.

Mackenzie began her 2011 elite season by competing at the CoverGirl Classic. At the classic, she competed a slightly watered down balance beam routine and a solid uneven bars routine; scoring 14.100 and 14.750, respectively.

At the 2011 US Visa National Championships, Mackenzie surprised many by competing in the all-around. On day 1 of the competition, Mackenzie was in second place after the two rotations; after scoring a 14.700 and 15.000 on vault and uneven bars, respectively. Unfortunately, she counted her first fall on the balance beam. After having a solid floor exercise, she finished her night in sixth place with an all-around score of 56.000. On the final day of competition, Mackenzie competed solidly on all her events. Taking advantage of injuries to defending national champion Rebecca Bross

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 and Chellsie Memmel

Chellsie Memmel

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, Mackenzie went on to finish the championships in fourth place behind Alexandra Raisman

Alexandra Raisman

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, McKayla Maroney

McKayla Maroney

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, and champion Jordyn Wieber

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. She also took second place on the uneven bars just behind Wieber by 0.050.

Mackenzie was given a spot on her fourth national team and has been invited to compete at the first world team selection camp.

Competition Skills

Mackenzie performed the following skills on bars, beam, floor, and vault as of 2010.

Apparatus	Skills	D Score	Top Score in World Championship/World Cup/Olympic Competition
Vault	Double-Twisting Yurchenko	5.8	15.000
Uneven Bars	Jump to high bar mount, Kip cast to reverse grip handstand, Jaeger (D), Kip cast to handstand, toe on piked Tkatchev (E) to Pak Salto (D), Kip cast to handstand, Maloney Maloney (gymnastics) The Maloney is a gymnastics skill performed on the uneven bars by female gymnasts. It is a transition skill from the low bar to the high bar. When performing, the gymnast places her toes on the low bar and performs a sole circle before releasing from the bar into flight and catching the high bar...  (D) to Bail (D) to toe-on full pirouette (D) to toe-on shoot to high bar, Kip cast to handstand, Tkatchev (D), Kip cast to handstand, giant, full twisting double tuck dismount (D)	6.2	14.666
Balance Beam	Leap on to beam mount, side sommie (D), front aerial (D) to flip flop (B) to layout step-out (C), full turn with leg at horizontal (C), split jump to sissone, switch split leap 1/2 (D) to back tuck (C)*, front pike take off from one foot (C), switch split leap (C) to back tuck (or pike) (C), roundoff to double pike dismount (E)	5.7 (5.8*)	14.266
Floor Exercise	Roundoff back handspring to full-in double pike (E) (triple twisting back layout (E)*), roundoff back handspring to a triple twisting back layout (E) (roundoff to 1 1/2 back layout (C) to full twisting front layout (C)*), double turn with leg at horizontal (D), tour jete 1/2 (C), switch split ring leap (C) to switch split leap 1/2 (C), roundoff to 1 1/2 twisting back layout (C) to full twisting front layout (C) (front handspring to double twisting front layout (D)*), roundoff back handspring double pike dismount (D)	5.6 (5.5*)	13.533 (With slightly watered down exercise)

• *Variation competed for 2011.

Senior Career History

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2011	CoverGirl Classic	Chicago, IL	Uneven Bars	4	14.750
			Balance Beam	12	14.100
	U.S. Championships	Saint Paul, MN	All-Around	4	112.500	6	56.000
			Uneven bars	2	29.750	2	15.000
			Balance Beam	12T	26.700	18	12.650
			Floor Exercise	10	27.200	6T	13.650

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2010	CoverGirl Classic	Chicago, IL	All Around	3	56.450
			Vault	2	14.850
			Uneven Bars	2	15.050
			Balance Beam	20	12.950
			Floor Exercise	8	13.600
	U.S. Championships	Hartford, CT	All-Around	5T	113.350	5T	56.800
			Uneven bars	2	28.900	4	15.000
			Balance Beam	7T	27.550	9	13.500
			Floor Exercise	8	27.700	10T	13.700
	World Gymnastics Championships	Rotterdam, The Netherlands	Team All-Around	2	175.196	3	233.643
			All-Around			9	57.198
			Vault		15.000 (team finals)	6	14.933 (no average)
			Uneven Bars		14.666 (team finals)	12	14.466
			Balance Beam			21	14.266
			Floor Exercise			39	13.533

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2009	CoverGirl Classic	Des Moines, IA	Uneven Bars	9	13.350
	U.S. Championships	Dallas, TX	All-Around	5	111.950	5	56.000
			Uneven bars	3	29.000	4	14.450
			Balance Beam	17	26.000	15	13.000
			Floor Exercise	10	27.350	9	13.850
	Toyota International	Toyota City, Japan	Uneven bars	2	14.675
			Balance Beam	12	12.275
			Floor Exercise	11	12.100

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2008	U.S. Olympic Team Trials	Philadelphia, PA	All Around			12	57.100
			Vault			6	14.950
			Uneven Bars			12	14.450
			Balance Beam			16	13.800
			Floor Exercise			18	13.900
	U.S. Championships	Boston, MA	All Around	10	114.850	8	58.100
			Uneven Bars	10	28.950	8	14.400
			Balance Beam	15	28.200	10	14.800
			Floor Exercise	19	28.500	18	14.100