Lexie Priessman
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Lexie Priessman is a junior elite artistic gymnast who is the 2011 U.S. junior national champion on vault. Priessmann competes the Amanar vault, which has a 6.5 start value.

2011

In September, Priessman captured the all-around title (55.70) at the 2011 Japan Junior International in Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan
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. Competing her Amanar, she won the vault title with a meet-high score of 15.8. On balance beam (12.8), her skills included a standing full and a tucked full-in dismount. Her bars set (13.8) featured a giant full to Tkatchev, a toe-blind to Jaeger and a double layout dismount. On floor (13.30), she tumbled a double-double first pass, a 1 1/2 to 2 1/2, and a tucked full-in.

At the 2011 U.S. Junior Gymnastics Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota during August
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, Priessman claimed her first national vault title, with a two-night score of 31.55. She placed second on floor exercise (29.150) behind winner Katelyn Ohashi
Katelyn Ohashi
Katelyn Ohashi is an elite U.S. artistic gymnast who is the 2011 U.S. Junior National Champion in the all-around, balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercise. She is a three-time member of the U.S...

, and she tied for seventh on uneven bars with gymnast Amelia Hundley (27.45)

In July
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, Priessman claimed the junior vault title at the 2011 CoverGirl Classic in Chicago, Illinois. She won the silver medals in the all-around and floor exercise. She also placed third on balance beam and eighth on bars.

In the junior division of the 2011 City of Jesolo trophy in Jesolo
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, Italy
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, Priessman won vault and earned a share of the U.S. team gold medal. She placed fourth all-around and fifth on uneven bars. She also competed two new skills at the meet: a standing full and a tourjete half.

2010

Priessman made her national debut at the 2010 Nastia Liukin Supergirl Cup in Worcester
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, Massachusetts
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, where she won the all-around.

At the 2010 CoverGirl Classic in Chicago, IL, Priessman tied for second on vault with gymnast McKayla Maroney
McKayla Maroney
McKayla Maroney is an elite artistic gymnast from the U.S.A. who is best known for her execution of the Amanar vault – a Yurchenko-entry vault followed by two and a half twists in the air during a laid-out back salto. She is the 2011 U.S. champion on the vault, having bested 2010 World...

. She placed sixth all-around and on floor exercise, and she placed eighth on uneven bars.

Priessman placed second on vault at the 2010 U.S. Junior National Championships in Hartford, Connecticut, and she placed seventh on floor.
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