Nina Keys

Junior

She became a junior in 2025, In March, she helped her teammates take gold at the Rhythmic Challenge. They made their international debut at the Aphrodite Cup in Athens, being 11th overall and winning bronze with 10 clubs. In May, they won bronze in the All-Around as well as silver with 5 hoops and 10 clubs and in teams (along Natalie De la Rosa and Anna Filipp) at the Shining Star International Tournament. The group went on to win all three golds at the Elite Qualifier. Keys then participated in the Pan American Championships in Asunción, taking silver in the All-Around and with 5 hoops, bronze with 10 clubs. On June 20, the group from Burlo was again named the national junior group for 2025–2026. In late June, she was selected for the 3rd Junior World Championships in Sofia, winning an unprecedented silver in teams along groupmates Sasha Kuliyev, Leyla Kukhmazova, Ziah Khan, Alana Hirota and Katherine Roytman and individuals Natalie De la Rosa and Anna Filipp. In August, they won silver in the All-Around and with 10 clubs as well as bronze with 5 hoops at the Junior Pan American Games.

For 2026 she switched back to the individual modality. In May she was called up along, Ziah Khan, for the Gdynia Rhythmic Stars where she was 7th with hoop and 4th with ribbon. Later she took silver at the Elite Qualifier, behind Filipp. She was then selected to compete with clubs and ribbon at the Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, winning gold in the two event finals and in teams (with Anna Filipp, Izabella Oleynik and Josephine Weber). The following month she won gold with ribbon at the USA Championships, being confirmed into the national team. In October she was called up for a choreography camp to select gymnasts for the national senior group for the upcoming season. She made the group alongside Goda Balsys, Nida Balsys, Isabel Borges, Annabella Hantov, Ziah Khan, Kristina Lee, Greta Pavilonyte, Elizabeth Semenova, Alaini Spata, Kalina Trayanov and Natalia Ye-Granda.