Who is Angel Rice from Netflix's Cheer?

Who is Angel Rice from Netflix's Cheer?

Netflix's "Cheerleading" is back. The new season follows the nation's best cheerleaders as they train for the Daytona Championships. This time, we follow two teams, Navarro College and its rival, Trinity Valley Community College, both familiar from the first season. We also meet international cheer star and Trinity Valley member Angel Rice.

The 23-year-old Georgia native is already a four-time cheer world champion and a member of the USA Gymnastics team; if you were on the Internet in 2015, chances are you saw the viral power-tumbling video of her performing a series of flips and winning a Guinness World Record Most likely. Here's everything we know about this star, dubbed the "Simone Biles of cheerleading."

Rice became a national cheerleading star after her tumbling video went viral in 2015. She and her mother, Tonya, appeared on "Today" that year (open in new tab), where the teen set a Guinness World Record by performing 10 double full twists in under a minute.

She also told NBC News in 2016 that her goal is to compete in the Olympics in power tumbling. Since then, she has become a member of the USA Gymnastics National Power Tumbling Team and placed fourth at the 2018 USA Gymnastics Championships.

Rice told NBC News that she became interested in tumbling at the age of three. Her older sister also took power tumbling classes at the gym, but the family could not afford to take either of them, so her mother taught Rice herself.

"She would just watch and try to do what [the tumbling teachers] were doing," Rice said. 'At first she didn't want me to do it because it would cost too much money. So I started working harder.

Her mother then started working at a gym called Jam's Athletics, and Rice began competitive cheerleading there at age 5. She later became serious about tumbling and joined FlipCity South at age 12, which was featured in Cheer as the gym where Devonte "Dee" Joseph also trained.

Rice's entire family is into cheerleading. Her brother, Jayden "Jaymo" Rice, is also a Trinity Valley cheerleader, and both brothers have appeared in Cheer. Both Angel and coach Vontae Johnson have called Jaden talented, and Angel said on the show, "It's actually kind of funny that my brother is on the same team as me."

Both Angel and Jaden Rice will remain at the junior college in Athens, Texas, for the 2021-2022 season as they look to win back-to-back games in Daytona; the 23-year-old took to her Instagram to share a photo of herself at the Stingrays All Stars John Creek gym in Georgia. She documented the school's season with photos of the kids she coaches and their families.

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