Career-High Scores 

Collegiate Honors

• Three-Time Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2023)

Graduate Student - 2023

• Academic All-Big Ten 
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• Competed in all 13 meets on bars
• Scored a season-high 9.85 three times (vs. Missouri, at Metroplex Challenge, vs. Michigan)

Graduate Student - 2022

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Competed in all 13 meets on bars and beam
• Scored a career-high 9.875 on bars at Kentucky
• Tied her career high score on beam at the Illinois Quad Meet 

Senior - 2021

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Competed in all 11 meets 
• Scored a career-high 9.85 on bars at Minnesota
• Recorded a season-best performance 9.85 on beam with a score of at the Big Five Meet

Junior - 2020

• Competed in all 11 meets
• Made her collegiate debut on bars against Penn State

Sophomore - 2019

• Posted a career-high 9.875 on beam to place third at the State of Illinois Classic on
• After becoming a viral sensation overnight, Borden led off the beam lineup at the Big Five Meet

Freshman - 2018

• Attended Illinois, but did not compete with the team

High School/Club 

• 2017 Junior Olympic National Qualifier
• Third on beam at 2017 Region 5 Championship
• First on beam at the 2016 Illinois State Championships
• Second on beam at the 2015 J.O. National Invitational Tournament 
• First on beam at the 2015 Region 5 Level 10 Championship 
• First on beam at the 2014 J.O. National Invitational Tournament 
• Trained under renowned coaches Jiani Wu and Yuejiu Li at Legacy Elite Gymnastics

Personal 

• Born May 28, 1999
• Parents are Eric Borden and Rebecca Kasper-Borden
• Two sisters, Natalie and Audrey
• While in high school, she was an Indian Prairie School District 204 Scholar and AP Scholar
• Graduated December of 2021 with her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering
• Currently pursuing her master’s of science in finance
• Chose Illinois because of, "its outstanding engineering programs. When I visited, I fell in love with the campus and I knew this was the school for me"