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2024 Men's Gymnastics Roster

12 Michael Fletcher

  • Position All-Around
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Nashua, N.H.
  • High School Bishop Guertin
  • Instagram mike.fletcher
  • Twitter mfletch1027

Biography

NCAA Badge 2023 NCAA All-Around All-American
Graduation Badge University of Illinois Graduate
Big Ten Logo white 3x First Team All-Big Ten (2019, 2021, 2023)
USA Button 2023 All-Around All-American
Big Ten Logo white 2021 Vault Big Ten Champion
Trophy Badge 2019 Big Ten Freshman of the Year

Individual Event Titles 

Event Titles
Floor 1
Pommel Horse 1
Still Rings 1
Vault 2
Parallel Bars 2
High Bar 1
All-Around 4
Total  12

Career Highlights

  • 2023 NCAA Postseason All-American in all-around
  • 2023 CGA Regular Season All-American in all-around
  • 2021 Big Ten Vault Champion
  • 3x First Team All-Big Ten (2019, 2021, 2023)
  • 2019 Big Ten Freshman of the Year
  • 2019 Illinois Athletics Male Freshman of the Year Finalist
  • 2023 Team MVP 
  • 2023 CGA MVP Finalist 
  • Bronze all-around medalist at the 2019 Big Ten Championships
  • 5x Academic All-Big Ten (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Lettered four years
  • 3x All-Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Event Management Captain for the 2024 season
  • Is the 11th Illini gymnast of all-time to collect a a title in every event plus all-around 

Career Highs

Floor Exercise: 14.300 (2x, last at Penn State, 3/23/24)
Pommel Horse: 13.850 (vs. Ohio State, 2/5/22)
Still Rings: 14.000 (at Minnesota, 3/22/21)
Vault: 14.800 (at NCAA Championships- Day 1, 4/16/21)
Parallel Bars: 14.400 (at NCAA Championships - Day 1, 4/15/22)
High Bar: 14.150 (at Oklahoma, 3/9/19)
All-Around: 82.700 (at B1G Team Finals, 4/5/19)

Graduate Student - 2024

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Competed in 13 meets, primarily in floor and parallel bars 
  • Earned two event titles
  • Became the 11th Illini gymnast to collect a title in every event plus all-around after winning the floor title (14.300) at Greenville on Jan. 20
  • Tied his career high on floor (14.300) at Penn State on March 23

Graduate Student - 2023

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Saw action in every meet, primarily in the all-around
  • Voted MVP by team
  • CGA MVP Finalist 
  • Earned two event titles in all-around
  • Set five season-highs in five events  
  • Earned postseason and regular season All-America honors in all-around

Senior - 2022

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Saw action in 12 meets, competing all-around
  • Set career-highs in pommel horse (2/5/22 at Ohio State) and parallel bars (4/15/22 at the NCAA Qualifiers)
  • Earned event title in parallel bars 

Junior - 2021

  • Academic All-Big Ten.
  • 2021 Big Ten Vault Champion
  • First Team All-Big Ten
  • Saw action in all nine meets on the season, competing all-around
  • Earned six event titles, one pommel horse, one rings, two vault, one parallel bars, and one all-around
  • Set career-highs on floor (14.033), pommel horse (13.700), still rings (14.000) and vault (14.800)

Sophomore - 2020

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Did not compete

Freshman - 2019

  • Big Ten Freshman of the Year
  • First Team All-Big Ten
  • Illinois Athletics Male Freshman of the Year Finalist
  • Earned a bronze all-around medal at the Big Ten Team Finals with a 82.700 total, the second-best all-around performance in school history
  • Won the high bar and all-around titles in Illinois' season-opener against UIC
  • Big Ten Event Finals qualifier on both vault and parallel bars
  • Turned in a career-best 14.650 vault run at the Big Ten Team Finals
  • Big Ten Freshman of the Week (1/15/19)
  • 2019 Winter Cup participant
  • A main contributor for the Illini in all 12 meets on the year

High School/Club

  • Junior Elite gymnast
  • 2015 Junior National Team member
  • Coached by Calbert Booker 
  • Earned first-place and fourth-place finishes on parallel bars at 2015 Junior Olympic Nationals 
  • 11th place on all-around and second place on pommel horse at 2016 P&G National Championships
  • Earned honor roll recognition throughout high school 

Personal

  • Born October 27, 1999
  • Son of Bob and Karen Fletcher
  • Has one brother, Sam
  • Pursing his masters in sports management 
  • Plans to go to into sports social media content creation
  • Chose Illinois, "To receive a top-tier education, participate in high-level athletics, and be a part of a family"
  • Committed on October 8, 2017. "I walked off the plane from my final recruiting trip and I just knew."

Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2019Freshman

    AA
    12
  • 12

    2020Sophomore

    AA
    12
  • 12

    2021Junior

    AA
    12
  • 12

    2022Senior

    AA
    12
  • 12

    2023Graduate Student

    All-Around
    12
  • 12

    2024Graduate Student

    All-Around
    12