17 Things You Didn't Know About Maile O'Keefe

17 Things You Didn't Know About Maile O'Keefe

Fun facts about junior elite and U.S. National Team Member Maile O'Keefe.

Dec 22, 2016 by Becca Reed
17 Things You Didn't Know About Maile O'Keefe
U.S. National Team Member Maile O'Keefe is featured in our newest Beyond the Routine, which premiered yesterday. In this documentary, we go through her gymnastics career from her first days in the gym to winning the 2016 P&G Championships. Here, get to know a little bit about Maile outside of her gymnastics with 17 fun facts.

1. Do you have any hidden talents?
I can sing!

2. What's your biggest pet peeve?
My biggest pet peeve would be when someone chews with their mouth open ewwww.

3. What was your first pet?

Well I think we had pets before this one but this is the only one I remember. Her name was BB. She was a German Shepard she died last year when I was in Boston...:(

4. What is the most unusual food you've ever eaten?
I don't really eat anything I haven't already:)

5. What is the one food you will never, ever eat?

Cow brain

6. What is the number one activity on your bucket list?

To go to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

7. Do you collect anything?

Starbucks gift cards.. There are so many and you can go in and pick them up every season, they give them away so you don't have to load it.

8. What is your favorite book?

Of Mice and Men

9. If you could go back in time, what year would you travel to?

1977 then I could have seen the making of Grease (the Movie).

10. If you could be an animal, which animal would you choose?

Monkey. Bars is kinda second nature for me ;)

11. Can you speak another language?

I know 3 things in Japanese.

12. What is your favorite scent?

Tropical/ Fruity scents.

13. What was the first concert you ever went to?

Selena Gomez

14. What's your favorite holiday and why?

Thanksgiving because we have these really big thanksgiving parties where my whole side of my dads family comes. This year we didn't have it because my grandmother recently passed away and my grandpa moved into a retirement home. The party was always held at their house.

15. If you could have dinner with any person in the entire world who would it be?

Alive: Shawn Johnson
Deceased: My grandma O'Keefe

16. Which three people would you choose to take with you on a dream vacation and where would you go?

My friends Jocelyn, Sienna, and Trista and we would go to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

17. If you didn't do gymnastics what other sport would you play?

Soccer or Softball


Watch the trailer for Maile's Beyond the Routine below and click here to see the full video.