Aberdeen O’Driscoll is no stranger to the pressure of a big meet. As a member of the Belgian National Team, O’Driscoll competed at the 2023 European Championships where her performances on vault and floor helped Belgium qualify for a team spot at the home World Championships in Antwerp later that same year where she was selected as an alternate.
O’Driscoll had originally planned to compete through the 2024 elite season, but a stress fracture in her back prevented her from competing in the FIG Apparatus World Cup series. While she still has more to give in the elite world, she is ready to explore new places her gymnastics can take her, like Athens, Georgia. And so this past fall, O’Driscoll undertook her most recent challenge of beginning her NCAA career in the United States under a newly revitalized Georgia program.
Aberdeen’s gymnastics journey began in her village of Léglise before moving to the high-level training centers in Mons and Ghent. One of her first coaches at her club in Wardin, Pauline Hardy, described O’Driscoll’s power, mental toughness, work ethic, and constant motivation as her strongest qualities as an athlete.
Born to an American father and a Belgian mother, O’Driscoll was raised entirely in Belgium but traveled to the United…
