NCAA Championships Qualifier

Illinois Record - Perfect 10.0

University of Illinois Graduate

Three-Time All-Big Ten

2x Second Team All-American

Career-High Scores  

Collegiate Honors 

• 2x Second Team All-American - Balance Beam (2022, 2023)
• Three-time First Team All-Big Ten (2022, 2023, 2024)
• 2021 Second Team All-Big Ten
• Four-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (1/7/20,1/14/20, 3/14/22, 2/13/24)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Week (1/7/20,1/14/20)
• Fighting Illini Freshman of the Year
• Four-time Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District 
• CSC Academic All-American Second Team (2023)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2023)

Graduate Student - 2024

• Academic All-Big Ten
• First Team All-Big Ten
• Competed in all 16 meets, primarily on bars and beam
• Earned a place on the All-Championships Team at the Big Ten Championships for placing tenth on beam with a 9.875

Senior - 2023

• Academic All-Big Ten 
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar 
• First Team All-Big Ten
• WCGA All-American - Balance Beam
• Big Ten Champion Co-Champion on bars
• Competed in all 13 meets
• CSC All-District Team 
• CSC Academic All-America Second Team
• Tied her career-high on bars (9.950) on against Nebraska and at the Big Ten Championships

Junior - 2022

• Academic All-Big Ten 
• Second Team All-American on balance beam
• First Team All-Big Ten
• Big Ten Champion on balance beam with a score of 9.950
• Qualified for NCAA Championships on the uneven bars
• Scored the second perfect 10 of her career vs Bowling Green on March 10
• Set new program record and a career-high in the all-around with a score of 39.750 vs. Bowling Green on March 10
• Voted Team MVP
• Named Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (3/14)
• Competed in all 13 meets
• CoSIDA Academic All-District First-Team

Sophomore - 2021

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Second Team All-Big Ten
• Competed in all 11 meets
• Recorded a career-high score of 9.900 in the vault at the Big Ten Championships

Freshman - 2020

• Competed in all 11 meets 
• Named First Team All-Big Ten
• Became the first Illini to ever earn a 10.0 on beam on Jan. 9 against Lindenwood and Temple
• Became the first Illinois gymnast to ever earn Big Ten Gymnast of the Week and Freshman of the Week honors in the same week, back-to-back
• Her 10 event wins are the most by an Illinois freshman since Allison Buckley won 19 meets in 2008
• Recorded the second-best beam score in Illinois history with a 9.975 at Kentucky on March 6

High School/Club

• Four-time Level 10 Junior Olympic National qualifier (2016-19)
• First on beam, third in all-around and fifth bar and floor at the 2019 Region 1 Level 10 Regionals
• First on bars and floor, second in all-around, third on beam and fourth on vault at the 2019 NorCal Level 10 States
• Second with team, sixth on beam and ninth on floor at the 2018 Level 10 Junior Olympic Nationals
• Second on vault, bars and vault, and third in all-around at the 2018 Region 1 Level 10 Regionals
• First on bars at the 2018 NorCal Level 10 States
• Second on bars, sixth on beam and seventh in all-arouhd at the 2017 Level 10 Junior Olympic Nationals
• First on bars, third on beam and in all-around, and eighth on floor at the 2017 Region 1 Level 10 Regionals
• Second on floor and third on bars at the 2017 NorCal Level 10 States
• First on beam and team at the 2016 Level 10 Junior Olympic Nationals
• First on bars, fifth on beam and seventh  in all-around at the 2016 Region 1 Level 10 Regionals
• Second on bars, beam and in all-around at the 2016 NorCal Level 10 States

Personal 

• Born March 30, 2001
• Parents are Lynn Yempuku and Paul Takekawa
• Has one sister, Hannah
• Pursuing her bachelor's degree in bioengineering with a business minor
• Chose Illinois because: "The top-tier engineering and gymnastics programs here were exactly what I was looking for, and the team made this campus feel like home."