David Sender

Sender was a member of the Stanford Cardinal men's gymnastics team. He was the back-to-back NCAA vault champion at the 2006 and 2007 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships.

On the international stage, Sender represented the United States at the 2003 Pan American Games and won a bronze medal in the team all-around.^[2] He later won an individual bronze medal on the vault at the 2006 Pacific Alliance Gymnastics Championships and made the United States team for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[2]

Domestically, Sender was the all-around national champion at the 2008 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships.^[3]

An injury during warmups caused Sender to miss the 2008 United States Olympic trials.^[1] Despite an injury petition, Sender was not selected to the Olympic team.^[1][4]

In September 2009 after the 2009 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Sender declined a spot on the United States national team and announced his subsequent retirement.^[5] He later took up the sport again and trained with Justin Spring at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign while doing veterinary school.^[6] He took a one-year leave of absence from his graduate school.^[7] In another attempt to make the Olympics, he made the national team again in 2012.^[4] Despite placing second on vault at the 2012 United States Olympic trials, he was not selected.

• David Sender at the International Gymnastics Federation
• David Sender at USA Gymnastics