Maeve Teo

Name: Maeve Teo Yuumi

Name in Chinese/Tamil Character: 张优美

Date of birth: 06-22-2007

Height: 167 cm

Current School: Raffles Girls’ School

Age began gymnastics and reason for starting: 6 years old, I was selected to be in my school’s RG team due to my dance background and I decided to join because I really loved movement and I thought it would be fun.

First Club: Funyard Management Consultancy

First Coach: Coach Teng

Current Club: Bianka Panova Academy

Current Coach: Bianka Panova

Favourite apparatus: Hoop

Favourite skill: Chaines

Most difficult skill to learn so far: Penche turn

Personal Best Recorded and the Event in which it was recorded: I focus on doing my best for each competition. I look at the score during the competition but after it I focus on how I felt. How much I had achieved, what I did better, what I need to improve and so I can’t remember any of my scores.

Major Sporting Achievements:

I haven’t been to any major competitions but I’m really happy when I top a previous performance.                                           

Sporting motto or saying: “Failure is the key to success.”

Most admired sports person: Bianka Panova

Who is your favourite gymnast and why? Bianka Panova because I really liked how perfect, precise and consistent all her routines were, and the fantastic artistry and timing she had in relation to her music.

Favourite music: I like pop music. Favourite singers: Adele, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor.

Favourite movie: My Favourite movie of all time is Boss Baby. My favourite TV show is the Mandalorian.

My favourite local dish: Mee Hoon Kueh

My main support group: My family

If I was not an athlete, I would like to be... If I weren’t an athlete, I would like to be a doctor. (But who says I can’t be both?)

Top 3 items in my bucket list includes... My bucket list right now would be to go to France, to have a pet guinea pig and have a really cute cat.

I love to hang out at... because... I love to hang out at home because I like to spend time with my family watching TV.

One interesting fact that most people do not know about me is... I like to sing.

Any other pre-competition routines that you practice besides warm up? I sleep early the night before.

What is the greatest challenge you have faced in your sporting career? How did you overcome that?

The greatest challenge I faced was breaking my foot and being unable to train when I was younger. I overcame this by stretching every day at home myself until my foot healed.