Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs

Elyse Null (née Hopfner-Hibbs, born September 12, 1989) is a Canadian former gymnast, UCLA gymnastics alumna,^[1] and YouTube personality.^[2] She was born in Mississauga, Ontario.

Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs
Born	(1989-09-12) September 12, 1989 (age 35) Mississauga, Ontario
Height	152 cm (5 ft 0 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Canada
Club	Sport Seneca
Head coach(es)	Carol-Angela Orchard
Assistant coach(es)	Brian McVey
Choreographer	Lisa Cowan
Music	Malagueña by Brian Setzer
Eponymous skills	Floor Exercise
Medal record Representing  Canada World Championships 2006 Aarhus Balance Beam Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne Uneven Bars 2006 Melbourne Balance Beam 2006 Melbourne All-Around 2006 Melbourne Team Pacific Rim Championships 2008 San Jose Team 2006 Honolulu Team 2006 Honolulu Balance Beam

Career

Hopfner-Hibbs first started gymnastics in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001.

Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games: team bronze, gold in the women's uneven bars and women's beam, and silver in the women's all-around. She did not take the all-around title, despite having achieved the same score as eventual winner Chloe Sims of Australia. The new tie break rule had to be used to separate them (previously ties were not uncommon in gymnastics, even in the all-around). Sims did, however, invite Hopfner-Hibbs onto the gold medal podium with her. Despite this, Hopfner-Hibbs finished the championship as one of the most decorated gymnasts at the event, tying with Hollie Dykes of Australia for the highest medal total.

In the 2006 World Championships, Hopfner-Hibbs won a bronze medal on the beam, the first medal ever for a Canadian woman at the World Championships.^[3] Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars.^[4]

Hopfner-Hibbs competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She did not qualify to any event finals due to some errors in the preliminaries, but placed 16th in the individual all-around final.^[5][6]

College career

Hopfner-Hibbs entered UCLA on an NCAA scholarship in 2008^[7] and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009.^[8] She also finished 7th in the individual all-around competition at the 2009 NCAA National Championship, and was a second team All-American on vault, floor, uneven bars and in the all-around.^[9] In 2010, Elyse was a member of the national championship-winning UCLA team.^[10]

Personal life

On May 1, 2015, Hopfner-Hibbs married Grayson Null, the younger brother of YouTube personality Austin Null from The Nive Nulls. They also decided to start their own YouTube channel called Meet The Nulls.^[2] On November 27, 2016, they welcomed their first child, Scarlett Everly Null.^[11]

Skills

• Vault - 11⁄2 Twisting Yurchenko
• Uneven bars - Yarotska; Giant 1/1 Pirouette; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Khorkina; Giant 11⁄2 Pirouette; Piked Jaeger; Church; Toe-on 1/1 Pirouette; Overshoot to Handstand; Stalder Hecht; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Double Front Tuck Dismout
• Balance Beam - Front Handspring Mount; Aerial to Back Layout to Back Layout; Illusion; Double Turn; Front Tuck; Switch Leap to Roundoff Aerial; Double Back Somersault Dismount
• Floor Exercise - Triple Turn; Full Twisting Double Back; Arabian Double Front; Double Back Pike; 1.5 to a full twist

Eponymous skill

Hopfner-Hibbs previously had one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points. It was removed in the 2017 version of the code.^[12][13]

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty[a]
Floor exercise	Hopfner-Hibbs	2/1 (720°) illusion turn without hand or foot support	C

1. Valid for the 2013-2016 Code of Points