Jonathan Horton night

The #1 Oklahoma Men’s Gymnastics team will face #6 Ohio State on Saturday, March 14th at 7:00 p.m. at McCasland Field House.

Former OU Gymnast and 2008 Olympic Silver and Bronze Medalist Jonathan Horton will be honored at the meet and will perform an exhibition routine on the high bar following the competition. Horton’s heroics in the 2008 Beijing Olympics led team USA to a Bronze Medal in the team competition. Horton won his Silver Medal with an amazing high-bar routine in the individual finals …

International Gymnast forum – jhorfan24

Inside Gymnastics has a long, personal article on the Beijing hero. A good read.

Horton, a native of Houston, will return to his hometown after he graduates from the University of Oklahoma with a business degree this May. He and fiancée Haley DeProspero, also an OU gymnast and Texas native (her family hails from the Dallas area), will make their home in Houston after their June wedding. There, Haley will attend the University of Texas medical school, while Horton plans to return to his roots and work with junior coach Tom Meadows at Cypress Academy.

Meadows and Horton have remained close. Meadows, who was an NCAA gymnast at Oklahoma under Mark Williams, Horton’s current personal coach, was on hand to watch Horton at the Olympic Trials and celebrated with Horton’s friends and family when his protégé made the 2008 team. Meadows even traveled to Beijing …

read more on Inside Gymnastics – HORTON HEADS HOME, PART 1