Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs

Elyse Null (née Hopfner-Hibbs, born September 12, 1989) is a Canadian former elite gymnast, UCLA gymnastics alumna,[1] and YouTube personality.[2] She was born in Mississauga, Ontario.

Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs
Country represented Canada
Born (1989-09-12) September 12, 1989
Mississauga, Ontario
HometownToronto
Height152 cm (5 ft 0 in)
Weight46 kg (101 lb)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
ClubSport Seneca
Head coach(es)Carol-Angela Orchard
Assistant coach(es)Brian McVey
ChoreographerLisa Cowan
MusicMalagueña by Brian Setzer
Eponymous skillsFloor Exercise
Medal record
Representing  Canada
World Championships
2006 AarhusBalance Beam
Commonwealth Games
2006 MelbourneUneven Bars
2006 MelbourneBalance Beam
2006 MelbourneAll-Around
2006 MelbourneTeam
Pacific Rim Championships
2008 San JoseTeam
2006 HonoluluTeam
2006 HonoluluBalance Beam

Elite career

She first started gymnastics in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001.

Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games: team bronze, gold in the women's uneven bars and women's beam, and silver in the women's all-around. She did not take the all-around title, despite having achieved the same score as eventual winner Chloe Sims of Australia. The new tie break rule had to be used to separate them (previously ties were not uncommon in gymnastics, even in the all-around). Sims did, however, invite Hopfner-Hibbs onto the gold medal podium with her. Despite this, Hopfner-Hibbs finished the championship as one of the most decorated gymnasts at the event, tying with Hollie Dykes of Australia for the highest medal total.

In the 2006 World Championships, Hopfner-Hibbs won a bronze medal on the beam, the first medal ever for a Canadian woman at the World Championships.[3] Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars.[4]

Hopfner-Hibbs competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She did not qualify to any event finals due to some errors in the preliminaries, but placed 16th in the individual all-around final.[5][6]

College career

She entered UCLA on an NCAA scholarship in 2008[7] and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009.[8] She also finished 7th in the individual all-around competition at the 2009 NCAA National Championship, and was a second team All-American on vault, floor, uneven bars and in the all-around.[9] In 2010, Elyse was a member of the national championship-winning UCLA team.[10]

Post-Retirement

On May 1, 2015, she married Grayson Null in California. Grayson is the younger brother of YouTube personality Austin Null from The Nive Nulls. They also decided to start their own YouTube channel called Meet The Nulls.[2] In May 2016, the couple announced, via YouTube, that they are expecting their first child.[11] On November 27, 2016 they welcomed a baby girl, Scarlett Everly Null.[12] On June 3, 2018 they welcomed their second child, a son called River Kobe Null. On January 2, 2020 they announced that they were expecting their third child, but on February 14, 2020 Elyse announced that they had miscarried their baby, a son who they later named Finn Josiah Null. On June 17, 2020 the couple announced another pregnancy. On January 7, 2021 they welcomed another son named Oaklen Kove Null.

Skills
  • Vault - 1½ Twisting Yurchenko
  • Uneven bars - Yarotska; Giant 1/1 Pirouette; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Khorkina; Giant 1½ Pirouette; Piked Jaeger; Church; Toe-on 1/1 Pirouette; Overshoot to Handstand; Stalder Hecht; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Double Front Tuck Dismout
  • Balance Beam - Front Handspring Mount; Aerial to Back Layout to Back Layout; Illusion; Double Turn; Front Tuck; Switch Leap to Roundoff Aerial; Double Back Somersault Dismount
  • Floor Exercise - Triple Turn; Full Twisting Double Back; Arabian Double Front; Double Back Pike; 1.5 to a full twist

Eponymous Skills
ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficulty
Floor ExerciseHopfner-HibbsDouble illusion turn without hand or foot supportC

References
  1. "UCLA Official Athletic Site - Women's Gymnastics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  2. "Meet The Nulls". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  3. Randi Druzin (2008-07-20). "Hopfner-Hibbs: On her own and raring to go". CBC. Archived from the original on July 31, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
  4. Donna Spencer (2008-07-23). "Gymnast Hopfner-Hibbs takes her higher world profile into Beijing". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
  5. "U.S. gymnasts finish 1-2 in individual all-around". CBC News. 2008-08-15. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
  6. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
  7. Allister Wentzel (2007-05-17). "Gymnastics Recruit Signed". The Daily Bruin. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725154041/http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/w-gym/spec-rel/012709aab.html. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20090509002324/http://www.huskers.com/fls/100/ncaa2009gym/2009WGymAllAmericans.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. "UCLA Official Athletic Site - Women's Gymnastics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvUMrQdMlw%5B%5D
  12. https://twitter.com/MeetTheNulls/status/803150122439671808%5B%5D
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