Anna DiPaula Class: Freshman Hometown: Bel Air, Md. High School: John Carroll Position: Base All Star Team: Maryland Twisters F5

At Maryland: In 2011-12, won event national championships as part of 2-element toss and synchronized toss groups...also competed in the trio tumbling pass and aerial tumbling pass through most of the season...member of team that went 8-1 during regular season and advanced to second straight NCATA championship in 2011-12.

Before Maryland: Competed for Maryland Twisters F5 for junior and senior years...team won 2011 USASF World Championship title...F5 won All Star Challenge's Return to Atlantis in 2011...she earned third at 2011 Battle at the Capital Tumble-Off...competed for Maryland Viper All Stars from 2002-2009...Viper's Venom team finished ninth at Worlds in 2007 and competed at Worlds from 2007-2009...Viper team won states...team won 2003 All Star Challenge's Return to Atlantis.

Personal: Anna Giulietta DiPaula...parents are Tony and Margaret DiPaula...has three older siblings, Rose, Regina and Joseph...member of National Honor Society in high school...lists making the acrobatics & tumbling team as her biggest goal...chose Maryland because she has been coming to Maryland sporting events her whole life and she never wanted to go anywhere else, as well as for the acrobatics & tumbling team...title of her autobiography would be "Finish Your Pass!"...wants to become a private investigator or own her own gym...criminology and criminal justice major.