Who was Simone Biles's longtime coach before Laurent and Cecile Landi?

Aimee Boorman was Simone Biles’s longtime coach before Laurent and Cecile Landi. Boorman coached Biles from her early development through the 2016 Rio Olympics, helping guide her rise from a promising junior to the sport’s dominant senior gymnast.

Biles began working with Boorman at Bannon’s Gymnastix in the Houston area when she was a child. Their partnership lasted roughly a decade and covered Biles’s breakthrough years, including her first U.S. national titles and four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics.

After the Rio Games, Boorman left Texas for a coaching position in Florida. During Biles’s subsequent break from competition, Biles and her family chose a new coaching partnership with the married French coaches Laurent and Cecile Landi at World Champions Centre.

Kelli Hill, Valeri Liukin, and Martha Karolyi are all important names in American gymnastics, but none was Biles’s principal longtime personal coach. Karolyi was a national-team coordinator, while the Landis became Biles’s coaches after Boorman.