Sophia Petrillo

Class:
Senior
Events:
All-Around
Height:
5-3
Hometown:
Stoneham, Mass.
High School:
Lexington Christian Academy

2022: WCGA Scholastic All-American...USAG Scholar Athlete...GEC Scholar Athlete...Competed in 13 meets on bars…Opened the season by scoring 9.700 on bars at the Yale quad meet (1/9)…Scored 9.725 points on two separate occasions, including the quad meet at (3/13) and the GEC Championships (3/19), where she helped the team to a second place finish.

2021: Season canceled due to COVID-19...WCGA Scholastic All-American.

2020: Gained Second Team All-ECAC on bars … Garnered ECAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolades … Earned ECAC Specialist of the Week on Mar. 12 … Scored season highs of 9.450 on vault, 9.800 on bars, 9.775 on beam, 9.550 on floor, and 38.275 in the all-around … Competed in all nine meets, including four times as an all-around performer … Posted a 9.550 or higher on bars in all nine meets … Tallied a 9.550 or higher on beam five times … Postseason events canceled due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) … Earned ECAC All-Academic Team, WCGA All-Academic, and USAG Scholar-Athlete honors.

2019: Qualified for USAG Nationals on bars and floor … Earned First Team All-ECAC in the all-around based off NQS … Won two all-around titles (Feb. 3, Feb. 10) on the year … Earned the team’s Most Improved award … Scored season highs of 9.550 on vault, 9.775 on bars, 9.700 on beam, 9.800 on floor, and 38.500 in the all-around … Competed in 13 meets, including in six meets as an all-around performer … Tallied a 9.700 or higher on floor seven times … Gained WCGA All-Academic honors.

Before Brown: Qualified for the Junior Olympic National Championships in 2015, 2016, and 2018 … Advanced to the Regional Championships seven straight times … Placed second in the all-around at the 2018 Regional Championships … Won the beam title and came in second in the all-around and bars at the 2018 State Championships … Took bronze on bars at the 2017 Regional Championships … Came in second in the all-around at the 2017 State Championships … Performed for coaches Mihai and Silvia Brestyan at Brestyan’s American Gymnastics Club … High honor roll and National Honor Society student … Graduated as high school’s salutatorian.

Personal: Sophia is the daughter of Laura and Richard Petrillo … Has two siblings, Gianna and Dario … Plans to concentrate in Health and Human Biology and pursue a career in medicine.

Why Brown? “At Brown, I can be a student, directing my own academic journey and pursuing the area of study that I find most intriguing with the open curriculum, and at the same time, an athlete, competing in Division I athletics alongside a team of motivated and talented individuals. Being a student-athlete at Brown allows me to have the same experience of participating in Division I gymnastics as athletes at larger universities while still receiving the outstanding education for which the university is so commonly celebrated. Brown provides me with the opportunity to fulfill my childhood dreams of being a collegiate athlete while simultaneously setting me up to succeed in my future endeavors in the workplace, something that very few universities in the country can offer.”

Career Highs
Vault: 9.550
Bars: 9.800
Beam: 9.775
Floor: 9.800
All-Around: 38.500