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Ragan Elizabeth Smith (born August 8, 2000) is a retired American gymnast and current assistant coach. She is a five-time member of the US National Team (2014–2019) and competed for the University of Oklahoma in collegiate gymnastics from 2020 to 2024. She is the 2017 United States national all-around champion and was an alternate for the 2016 Olympic team.
Smith competed in the Secret U.S. Classic, placing 1st on the floor exercise, as well as 2nd in the all-around and 3rd on vault. In August, Smith attended the 2015 US Nationals. She came in 3rd all-around with a two-day combined score of 116.450 and won both balance beam and floor. On December 19, 2015, Smith committed to the University of Oklahoma and the Sooners program.
On August 20, Smith won the 2017 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships all-around title with a two-day combined score of 115.250, over three points ahead of silver medalist Jordan Chiles. She also placed first on floor exercise ahead of Jade Carey and Trinity Thomas, first on balance beam ahead of Riley McCusker and Thomas, and third on uneven bars behind McCusker and Locklear. She was named to the national team for the fourth consecutive year.
On September 20, Smith was selected to represent the United States at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal alongside Carey, Locklear, and Morgan Hurd. During qualifications Smith qualified to the all-around final in second place behind Mai Murakami of Japan despite an uncharacteristic fall on the balance beam. Smith also qualified to the floor exercise final in first with a score of 14.433, ahead of Murakami and teammate Carey. She was arguably the favorite to win the all-around title, but minutes before her first rotation on vault she injured her ankle during warmups and withdrew from the all-around final. This was only one of many injuries sustained by major contenders over the course of the championships, with Kohei Uchimura of Japan, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and Larisa Iordache of Romania all withdrawing from the competition due to injury. Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan, the athlete representative, mentioned that the new podium training format only allowed the gymnasts a few minutes on each piece, not giving the gymnasts a sufficient amount of time to get used to the equipment, and suggested this as a reason for a much larger number of mistakes and injuries than usual. Smith's injury also forced her to withdraw from the floor exercise event final. Smith's recovery included extensive physical therapy and rehab as she chose to avoid the risks of surgery.
Marred by lingering torn ligaments in her ankle, broken toes, and mental struggles at the 2018 U.S Championships in August, Smith finished 10th in the all-around, 8th on vault, 8th on beam, tied for 11th on bars, and 11th on floor over the cumulative two day competition. She was not selected for the eight member national team for 2018.
In October, Smith participated in the Worlds Team Selection Camp. During the competition, she placed fifth in the all-around, third on balance beam behind Kara Eaker and Riley McCusker, fourth on vault and floor exercise, and eighth on uneven bars. The following day she was named to the team to compete at the 2018 World Championships alongside Biles, Morgan Hurd, McCusker, Grace McCallum, and Eaker. As a result of making the World Championship team, Smith was added back onto the National Team. While in Doha she was chosen as the alternate. Although she did not compete at the World Championships, she still earned a gold medal alongside her teammates.
In December Smith officially signed with the Oklahoma Sooners women's gymnastics program, starting in the 2020–21 season.
On February 6, 2022, in a meet against Texas Women's University, Smith earned her first collegiate perfect ten on the balance beam.
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| Norman Regional Semifinal |
| Metroplex Challenge |
| Oklahoma vs West Virginia |
| Oklahoma vs Michigan |
| Oklahoma @ TWU |
| Big 12 Championships |
| Michigan Regional Semifinal |
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| Vault | Svetlana Baitova | Yurchenko entry, laid out salto backwards with two twists | 5.4 | 2016–18 |
| Uneven Bars | Inbar 1/1 | Inbar Josef Stalder to full (1/1) pirouette | E | 2016–18 |
| Ricna | Josef Stalder to counter reversed straddled hecht over high bar | E | 2016–18 | |
| Becky Downie | Josef Stalder backward on high bar with counter-pike reverse hecht over bar | F | 2017–18 | |
| Balance Beam | Double Pike | Dismount: Double piked salto backwards | E | 2016–18 |
| Front Pike | Piked Salto Forwards | E | 2017 | |
| Layout | Laid out salto backwards with legs together (to two feet) | E | 2016–18 | |
| Lauren Mitchell | 1080° (3/1) turn in tuck stand on one leg | E | 2018 | |
| Shishova | Full-twisting (1/1) tucked salto backwards | F | 2016–18 | |
| Carly Patterson | Dismount: Tucked Arabian double front dismount | G | 2016 | |
| Floor Exercise | Andreasen | Tucked Arabian double salto forward | E | 2016–18 |
| Triple Twist | Triple-twisting (3/1) laid-out salto backward | E | 2016–18 | |
| Double Layout | Double laid out salto backwards | F | 2016–18 |
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