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2025 Acrobatics & Tumbling Roster

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17 Ayanna Manning

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • High School Patterson Mill High School
  • Hometown Abingdon, Md.
  • Instagram ayannamk

Biography

2024 (Junior): First Team All-Conference Selection...2024 NCATA Academic Honor Roll...Finished third overall in the Aerial Tumbling Event at the Conference Carolinas Event Championships. 

2023 (Sophomore): First Team All-Conference selection...2023 NCATA Academic Honor Roll...Helped Converse to a conference event championship in the Synchronized Pyramid event. 

2022 (Freshman): Named NCATA 2x Freshman of the Week...Named Conference Carolinas Freshman of the Year...Named to the Conference Carolinas First Team All-Conference...Qualified to the 2022 NCATA National Championships...Named NCATA Freshman of the Year...2022 NCATA Academic Honor Roll.

Prep: Graduated from Patterson Mill High School where she was a member of the National Art Honors Society, Future Business Leaders of America and the Presidential Honor Roll.

Personal: Daughter of Timothy Manning and Badia Khalid-Manning...has two siblings, Saran Khalid (23) and Samir Manning (16).

Historical Player Information

  • 17

    2022Freshman

    Base/Tumbler
    17
  • 17

    2023Sophomore

    Base/Tumbler
    5'5"
    17
  • 17

    2024Junior

    Base/Tumbler
    5'5"
    17
  • 17

    2025Senior

    Base/Tumbler
    5'5"
    17