MyKayla Brooke Skinner Harmer (/mɪˈkeɪlə/ mi-KAY-lə; born December 9, 1996) is an American former artistic gymnast.

She also competed for the University of Utah's gymnastics team and was a two-time NCAA champion while also setting Pac-12 records for conference honors.

[12][13][14] Skinner competed at the Fiesta Bowl in 2013, winning every individual event except for the floor exercise, where she tied for eighth place.

[16][17] Skinner won a gold medal with the U.S. in the team competition at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China, contributing a score of 15.775 on the vault and 14.666 on the floor.

[19] As a senior national team member, Skinner was invited to the 2015 Worlds Selection Camp in September and October.

[citation needed] On April 25, 2019, Skinner returned to elite gymnastics to attempt to compete at the 2020 Olympics.

[23][24] In September, Skinner competed at the U.S. World Championships trials, where she placed fourth all-around behind Biles, Sunisa Lee, and Kara Eaker.

[25] Skinner competed at the International Gymnix meet in Montreal in March 2020 with Emily Lee, Lilly Lippeatt, and Faith Torrez.

[39] Utah coach Greg Marsden said that Skinner was "one of the top gymnasts in the world" with "the potential to get even better as a result of her passion for the sport.

"[40] In April 2015, Skinner announced that she would defer enrolling at Utah by a year to concentrate on making the 2016 Olympic team.

[41] Skinner enrolled at the University of Utah in 2016 as an NCAA women's gymnastics team member and competed in the all-around.

She was a national champion on floor exercise with a 9.9625 alongside Ashleigh Gnat of LSU and was also fifth on vault and eighth on balance beam.

[44] At the 2018 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship Skinner won silver in the all-around and tied for first on vault with Brenna Dowell of Oklahoma and Alex McMurtry of Florida.

She recorded the second-highest vault and floor exercise scores but placed fifth due to four gymnasts tying for the title.

[50] Skinner trained at Desert Lights Gymnastics in Chandler, Arizona, under head coach Lisa Spini.

[51][9] On October 16, 2019, Skinner announced on Instagram that she was engaged to Jonas Harmer, whom she met while studying at the University of Utah.

[54] Following being named an alternate to the 2016 Olympics, Skinner retweeted a photograph of the U.S. team with her picture edited over that of Gabby Douglas and included emojis deemed racist.

She attributed this reduced work ethic to the U.S. Center for SafeSport, an organization set up to reduce sexual abuse in Olympic sports in the wake of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, and to the retirement of controversial women's team coordinator, Márta Károlyi.

[59] Several prominent current and past American gymnasts expressed support for Biles's post and criticized Skinner's comments.