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2025 Women's Gymnastics Roster

Illinois Fighting Illini
Illinois Fighting Illini

Makayla Green

  • Position All-Around
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Mays Landing, N.J.
  • High School Oakcrest High School
  • Instagram makaylagreen_

Biography

Letterwinner (2022, '23, '25)
Graduation Badge University of Illinois Graduate

Career Highs

Event Career-High Score
Vault 9.775 | 2x, last vs. Michigan State | Feb. 27, 2023
Uneven Bars 9.925 | 3x, last at NCAA Regionals | April 4, 2025
Balance Beam 9.700 | vs. Missouri | Jan. 8, 2023

Senior - 2025

  • Competed in all 15 meets on uneven bars
  • Named a team captain for her final season
  • Won the uneven bars at the Ball State Quad on Jan. 12
  • Won the uneven bars title vs. Nebraska on Jan. 25
  • Set a career high on uneven bars (9.925) at No 24 Penn State, winning the event title (Jan. 31)
  • Won the bars event title vs. No. 18 Ohio State, tying her career high
  • Earned the bars title at Iowa on Feb. 16
  • Won the uneven bars vs. Northern Illinois on March 16
  • Matched her career high on uneven bars (9.925) at Big Ten Championships 
  • Won the uneven bars (9.925) and matched her career high at the NCAA Regionals
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Big Ten Distinguished Scholar

Junior - 2024 

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Did not compete due to injury

Sophomore - 2023

  • Made Illini debut on Jan. 8 against Missouri
  • Competed in nine meets, primarily on vault
  • Tied a career-high 9.775 on vault versus Michigan State on Feb. 9

Freshman - 2022

  • Did not compete

High School/Club

  • Two-time Junior Olympic national qualifier
  • Two-time Level 10 New Jersey state qualifier
  • First on vault, second on beam and floor at the 2019 Level 10 Regional
  • Fourth in all-around and second on floor at the 2019 Level 10 New Jersey State
  • 2019 Passed Senior Elite Compulsories
  • Second at all-around and bars at the 2017 Level 10 Regional
  • Tenth in all-around at the 2016 Level 9 Eastern Nationals
  • Third in all-around and second on bars at the 2016 Level 9 Regional

Personal  

  • Born Jan. 9, 2003
  • Parents are William and Malika Green
  • One brother, William
  • Pursuing her bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences with an emphasis in health behavior change
  • Chose Illinois because "the amazing academics and the outstanding gymnastics program would allow me to succeed in my college career and prepare me for my future. This campus feels like home and the perfect fit for me!"

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

    All-Around
    5'3"
  • 2023Sophomore

    All-Around
    5'3"
  • 2024Junior

    All-Around
    5'3"
  • 2025Senior

    All-Around
    5'3"