2009 Media Guide

Anna Li Class: Junior Hometown: Aurora, IL High School: Waubonsie Valley HS Height: 5-4 Club: Naperville Gymnastics Club

2008 - First-team All-American on uneven bars ... One of the nation's top all-arounders, ranking 14th in the nation and posting a season average of 39.372 and a season and career-high of 39.6 ... Sensational season was slowed after suffering a concussion during the Bruins' meet against Utah Feb. 24. She was unable to finish the competition and had to sit out the following week ... Returned to the lineup on bars and beam on Mar. 9 and tied for fifth on bars with a 9.825 and third on beam with a 9.875 ... Also did bars and beam at Georgia Mar. 15 and tied for first on bars with a 9.9 and fifth on beam with a 9.85 ... Returned to all-around action at Pac-10s and placed sixth with a 39.25 ... Also tied for third on bars and fourth on beam at Pac-10s with a pair of 9.9s ... Won a share of the uneven bars title at the NCAA Southeast Regionals, scoring a 9.95 ... In her nine completed all-around competitions, she placed first five times and second once ... Captured 19 individual victories - seven on bars, two on beam, four on floor and five in the all-around ... Scored a career-best 39.6 to win the IGI Chicago-Style meet and also won bars (9.95) and beam (9.9) ... Inserted a double layout into her floor routine on Feb. 1 at Washington and won the event with a then-career-high 9.9 ... Improved her floor score a week later and earned 9.925 ... Ranked second in the nation on bars ... Just missed out on a perfect 10 on bars at Cal on Feb. 17, scoring a career-high 9.975 ... Scored 9.8 or better on nine of 11 vaults ... Completed 45 of 46 routines without a fall and 102 of 107 in her career (95%) ... First-team All-Pac-10 in the all-around ... Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week for the first week of the season after winning the all-around, bars, beam and floor at the Lady Luck Invitational.

2007 - Competed on every event in every meet ... Placed fourth overall in the all-around (39.5) and ninth on beam at the NCAA Championships to earn first-team All-America honors ... Also earned second-team All-America honors on vault and bars ...Had nine individual victories on the year, including five on bars and a pair of all-around wins ... In her collegiate debut Jan. 6 against Washington, she won the all-around with a 39.0 and placed first on bars with a 9.85 ... Also claimed first place in the all-around with a 39.5 and on bars with a 9.925 at Alabama Mar. 9 ... Against Arizona on Jan. 21, she posted a career-best 39.55 to place second in the all-around, won the uneven bars with a career-high 9.95 and also earned a career-high 9.9 on beam ... Tied for third in the all-around at both the Pac-10 Championships and NCAA Southeast Regionals ... Scored 9.8 on vault in nine of the last 10 meets and averaged 9.809 on the event ... Led the team with a 9.878 average on bars ... Won the NCAA Southeast Regional title on bars with a career-high tying 9.95 and tied for the Regional title on beam with a 9.825 ... Scored a career-high 9.95 on beam to win a share of the Pac-10 beam title and secure third place in the all-around with a 39.45 ... Clinched the victory over previously unbeaten Georgia with a career-high 9.9 on floor exercise in the final rotation ... Averaged 9.808 on floor, second-best on the team ... Ranked second on the team in individual victories (nine) and Top 3 placings (30) ... Only freshman in the conference selected to the All-Pac-10 team in the all-around.

Club - Two-time USA Championships competitor ... Finished 16th in the all-around and ninth on beam at the 2005 USA Championships ... Earned a seventh-place finish on bars at the 2005 U.S. Classic ... Placed 23rd in the all-around at the 2004 USA Championships ... Qualified for the 2004 USA Championships after a 13th-place all-around finish at the U.S. Classic ... Won the balance beam title for the second-straight year and placed second in the all-around and on uneven bars at the 2004 Level 10 National Championships ... Eleventh in the all-around at the 2003 U.S. Challenge ... Balance beam champion and seventh in the all-around at the 2003 Level 10 Nationals ... Level 10 state all-around champion in 2003 ... Eighth in the all-around at the 2002 Level 10 Nationals ... Named to the Region 5 All-Star Team in 2002 ... Trained by her parents, Jiani Wu and Yuejiu Li.

Personal - Admires her parents, father Yuejiu Li and mother Jiani Wu ... Father Yuejiu was China's first World Champion on floor exercise in 1981 and won an Olympic silver team medal in 1984. He was the coordinator of the 2008 Chinese men's and women's Olympic teams and led both teams to the Olympic gold medal, as well as the 2006 World Championship team title ... Mother Jiani was a five-time Chinese National Champion, World Championship bronze medalist on beam in 1981 and an Olympic bronze team medalist in 1984 ... Both parents competed for China in Pauley Pavilion at the 1984 Olympics ... Hobbies are listening to music and dancing ... Full name is Anna Li ... Has a younger sister, Andrea ... Born September 4, 1988 in Las Vegas, NV ... Sociology major.