Stephanie Moorhouse

Stephanie Louise Rae Moorhouse (born 20 January 1987) is an Australian retired artistic gymnast. Moorhouse made her first Australian team in 1999, at the age of 12. She won gold with the Australian team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games while completing year 10 and was part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2003 World Championships. She went on to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens while finishing off her VCE. Although she did not win a medal, she was an all-around finalist, ranking 20th.

Early years Moorhouse was born to Ann and Stephen Moorhouse.

Gymnastics career Stephanie has had a number of coaches over the duration of her career, including: Ross Bouskill, Katie Watts, Tracey Penaluna and Misha Barabach. A typical training day consisted of Moorhouse waking up at 5:30am, be driven to training by her father 45 minutes away from her house; train from 7am – 10:30am; complete school from 11am to 3pm; train again from 3.30pm to 7pm; attend a physio, massage or sport psychologist appointment; have her father drive her back home where she would have dinner, do homework and head to bed early for a "refreshing" start the next day.

1999 National Championships Moorhouse and her team entered under the junior division and finished with excellent results. Out of the 6 categories, she won three gold medals in the team competition, all- around component (AA) and floor exercise (FX). Additionally, she won three silver medals on the uneven bars (UB), beam balance (BB) and vault (VT).

In the horse vault, she received a qualification rank of 77 and scored 8.875, ranking 77/98 gymnasts with the third highest rank on the Australian team. On the uneven bars, she attained a qualification rank of 37T and a score of 9.337, ranking 37/98 gymnasts with the third highest rank on the Australian team. On the balance beam, she attained a qualification rank of 26 and scored 9.162, ranking 26/98 gymnasts with the fourth highest rank on the Australian team. On the floor exercise, she attained a qualification rank of 57T and score of 8.850, ranking 57/98 gymnasts with the third highest rank on the Australian team. In the Women's Individual All-Around (AA), Moorhouse placed 20th out of 98 gymnasts, cementing her third place on the Australian team. In the Women's Team All-Around, Moorhouse, alongside the rest of the Australian gymnastics team cleared 8th place ahead of Brazil by 0.35 points but fell behind Spain by a narrow 0.325 point margin.

Moorhouse retired from competitive artistic gymnastics in the following year at the age of 18.

In 2014, she was a part of Life Saving Victoria as a sports events administrator and began expanding her Olympic career as part of the Victorian Olympic Council appointed an honorary officer. In 2017, she was promoted to board director of the Victorian Olympic Council.

In 2018, she was hired as a high performance manager at Waverly Gymnastics Centre focusing on "mentoring the next generation in achieving their goals".

Personal life In December 2017, Moorhouse was engaged to Tom Stainforth. The couple got married at Jack Rabbit Vineyard on 5 November 2018. On 2 January 2020, Moorhouse gave birth to son William Walker Stainforth at St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne.