Michael Ashe
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Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S.
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| Full name | Michael Brandon Ashe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 14, 1981 Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | California Golden Bears (2000–2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Head coach(es) | Barry Weiner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | c. 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Brandon Ashe (born March 14, 1981) is a retired American artistic gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. He competed collegiately for the California Golden Bears men's gymnastics team and was a two-time NCAA national champion on the horizontal bar.
Ashe was born on March 14, 1981, to Frances and Terry Ashe in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He trained at Greenville Gymnastics Center, then later at the Atlanta School of Gymnastics.[1] His hometown is Stone Mountain, Georgia, and he attended Stephenson High School where he played high school basketball and baseball.[2] He later enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley to pursue gymnastics.