{{short description|American artistic gymnastics coach|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Aimee Boorman | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Aimee Banghart | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|03|27}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|death date†|birth date†}} --> | death_place = | alma_mater = Northern Illinois University (1991-95)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldchampionscentre.com/aimee-boorman |title=Gymnastics Programs Spring, TX, Dance Lessons & Yoga Classes &#124; World Champions Centre |accessdate=2015-12-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110062015/http://www.worldchampionscentre.com/aimee-boorman |archivedate=2015-11-10 }}</ref> | other_names = | occupation = Gymnastics coach | known_for = Personal coach of Simone Biles | spouse = {{married|James Boorman|2000}} | children = 3 }}

'''Aimee Boorman''' (born '''Aimee Banghart'''; March 27, 1973) is an American artistic gymnastics coach. She coached 2016 Olympic champion and 2013–2015 world champion Simone Biles. She was the USA women's gymnastics team head coach at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Since 2021, she serves as an assistant coach for the Netherlands' women's gymnastic team.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/04/09/aimee-boorman-netherlands-simone-biles-gymnastics/ | title=Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles' former coach, joins Dutch gymnastics staff | date=9 April 2021 }}</ref> As of May 2025, she will coach in Stuttgart, Germany for 5 months.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/sport/turnen-stuttgart-vorstellung-ex-biles-trainerin-boorman-100.html | title=Ex-Biles-Coach startet heiklen Job in Stuttgart | date=19 March 2025}}</ref>

== Early life == Aimee Boorman was born and raised by a single mother in the Rogers Park area of Chicago. She began gymnastics classes with the Chicago Park District at age 6.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-simone-biles-coach-aimee-boorman-olympics-spt-0815-20160814-story.html|title=Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles' Chicago-born coach, is gymnastics' 'Ditka'|last=Tribune|first=Chicago|website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2016-08-21}}</ref> To help earn money at age 13, she started coaching at the Lakeshore Gymnastics Club. She attended Lane Technical High School, which had a strong gymnastics program, where she excelled in floor exercises, winning the city championship in that event as a freshman.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/olympics/article/Aimee-Boorman-redefines-coaching-relationship-8382626.php|title=Aimee Boorman redefines coaching relationship with Simone Biles|last=Barron|first=David|date=2016-07-16|website=|publisher=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

She realized she would not become an Olympic gymnast herself, but she considered continuing in the sport as a coach.<ref name=":0" /> In college at Northern Illinois University she became a member of the social sorority Delta Phi Epsilon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dphie.org/Member |title=Welcome Member |website=DPhiE.org |accessdate=2016-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811083543/http://dphie.org/Member |archive-date=2016-08-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While at first reluctant to continue coaching and pursue a degree, she missed the sport and took a part-time coaching position. She graduated with a business degree related to sports management in 1995.<ref name="facebook1">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/aimee.boorman/about |title=Aimee Banghart Boorman |publisher=Facebook |date=2014-03-01 |accessdate=2016-08-11}}</ref> That same year, when her friend had interviews in Houston, she went along on a whim and lined up interviews for herself. She was offered a coaching job.<ref name=":0" />

==Coaching career== Boorman's first coaching job in Texas was at Cypress Academy of Gymnastics located in Houston.<ref name=":0" /> Boorman started working at Bannon's Gymnastix in 1996. She began coaching Simone Biles in 2005, when Biles was eight years old.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4428013/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa/|title=Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights|last=Park|first=Alice|access-date=July 30, 2016|magazine=Time}}</ref> Biles rose to prominence in 2013 after becoming U.S. national champion and world all-around champion in her senior debut.

Boorman was the head coach at Bannon's, where Biles trained under her, until 2014, when they both left.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barron |first=David |url=http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2014/02/world-champion-gymnast-simone-biles-to-no-longer-train-at-spring-gym/ |title=World champion gymnast Simone Biles to no longer train at Spring gym - Sports Update |website=Blog.chron.com |date=2014-02-27 |accessdate=2016-08-11 |archive-date=2016-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810063155/http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2014/02/world-champion-gymnast-simone-biles-to-no-longer-train-at-spring-gym/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Pang |first=Becca |url=http://www.gymnastike.org/coverage/251255-2014-ATT-American-Cup/article/25313-Simone-Biles-Leaves-Bannons-Gymnastix#.VP0eQ_zF9dk |title=Simone Biles Leaves Bannon's Gymnastix &#124; FloGymnastics |website=Gymnastike.org |accessdate=2016-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924024431/http://www.gymnastike.org/coverage/251255-2014-ATT-American-Cup/article/25313-Simone-Biles-Leaves-Bannons-Gymnastix#.VP0eQ_zF9dk |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She and Biles temporarily trained at AIM Athletics in The Woodlands, Texas, until Biles' parents' new gymnastics facility, World Champions Centre, opened.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldchampionscentre.com/ |title=Gymnastics Training Center - Gymnastics & Tumbling Classes for Kids |publisher=World Champions Centre |date= |accessdate=2016-08-11}}</ref> The facility is located in Spring, Texas, and Boorman was the team manager and head coach.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aimee-boorman/33/47a/9b2 |title=Aimee Boorman &#124; LinkedIn |website=www.linkedin.com |access-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140806092141/http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aimee-boorman/33/47a/9b2 |archive-date=6 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Boorman was named head coach of the United States women gymnastics team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=18953&prog=h|title=USA Gymnastics names women's gymnastics coaches, team captain for Rio|last=|first=|date=2016-07-23|website=USA Gymnastics|publisher=|access-date=2016-08-11|archive-date=2016-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811210442/https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=18953&prog=h|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Post-Olympics, she left World Champions Centre and took the executive director position at Evo Athletics in Sarasota, FL.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/17419030/aimee-boorman-simone-biles-long-coach-leaving-world-champions-centre|title=Biles' longtime coach leaving Houston for Florida|date=30 August 2016 |access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref>

==Personal life== Boorman was raised in Chicago and resides in Florida. Boorman married husband James in 2000.<ref name=":0" /> Together the couple has three children.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/must-elite-kids-outgrow-their-coaches-1462909559|title=Must Elite Kids Outgrow Their Coaches?|last1=Futterman|first1=Matthew|date=2016-05-10|last2=Radnofsky|first2=Louise|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160809150052/http://www.worldchampionscentre.com/staff/aimee-boorman Aimee Boorman] at World Champion Centre

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