ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A week after having the top collegiate hockey player in the nation, Michigan adds the top gymnast in senior Sierra Brooks. Brooks was named the 2023 American Athletic Incorporated award winner on April 11. The AAI award is considered the Heisman Trophy for gymnasts given annually to the nation’s top senior. She becomes the fourth Michigan gymnast to win the award after Natalie Wojcik in 2022, Kylee Botterman in 2011, and Beth Wymer in 1995.

Brooks and Wojcik become just the third pair of teammates to win the award back-to-back after Alabama in 1985-86 and Georgia in 1998-99.

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She is the first Michigan gymnast to be named a three-time Regional Gymnast of the Year and is the third gymnast to be a two-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Year. She scored a perfect 10.0 on the floor for the all-arounder to be the 2023 Regional Champion. She also earned a perfect 10.0 on the vault at Rutgers, scored a career-high 9.975 on the uneven bars against No. 1 Oklahoma, won a share of the Big Ten uneven bars title and was a three-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Week winner.

The president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, she is a three-time WCGA Academic All-American honoree, CoSIDA Academic All-District member, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, and made the Big Ten Academic team three times. She was named a James B. Scholar in March 2021, too.

She will go down as one of the best gymnast in Michigan history.