ayla kell played payson in make it or break it.
ayla kell played payson in make it or break it.
who plays payson in make it or break it?
ayla kell
bullet::::- payson keeler (played by ayla kell) is the top female gymnast at the rock and one of the top ranked female gymnasts in the nation. she is a driven and dedicated professional who seems to live only for gymnastics. unlike the other girls, she seems uninterested in boys and is more wary of causing trouble. when marty leaves the rock she initially feels the most betrayed of all the girls, however she approves of sasha as the replacement coach. alone among the girls she sees sasha's strict disciplinarian style of management as a positive thing. she falls during her uneven bars routine at nationals and suffers a lumbosacral fracture, which is believed to be a career-ending injury. crushed, payson seems to give up on her dreams and enters a regular school where she struggles to adapt and falls in with a group of slackers. however, the keelers hear of an experimental surgery which might allow payson to compete again. despite her parent's concerns, payson goes through with the operation and makes a full recovery. however, in the months between her injury and recovery, her body has changed in ways which make her previous, power oriented, style of gymnastics difficult. with sasha's help, she develops a more artistic style of gymnastics and successfully petitions onto the world's team. during her training she develops a crush on sasha and impulsively kisses him, but he pushes her away. payson immediately realizes her mistake and apologizes to sasha who explains that he understands. however, a tape of the kiss, edited to remove sasha's refusal of payson's advances, gets sent to the national committee and results in sasha retiring. payson and sasha have made amends since he returned from romania. she falls on her ankle at worlds but came through for her team, her parents, and sasha when she did her last vault flawlessly and stuck the landing on one foot. payson is the most determined and serious of all the gymnasts, even though they all share the same ambition. she is swayed by max, but says that she will not let a boy "get in her head and mess with her game." but eventually ends up confessing her feelings for him. he ends the relationship in season 3, and she starts dating a new boy named rigo, to whom she loses her virginity. payson is one of only two characters to appear in every episode; the other is kaylie cruz.
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season three opens with payson, lauren, and kaylie heading to the american olympic training center as they prepare for the 2012 london olympics. they deal with a new coach and teammates, including up-and-coming gymnasts. max and payson have a relationship through letters; on the first day payson receives a letter in which max breaks up with her because he's confused. later payson, lauren, kaylie, and austin are having a conversation based around the breakup and austin admits to the group that max was bisexual and that they shared a kiss on the night of the party which leaves all three girls stunned. an uninvited gymnast, jordan randall, convinces coach macintire to let her train with the group, causing tension. coach mac pairs up the girls, forcing kaylie to live and work with kelly parker and lauren to work with payson. kelly is not good enough for the olympics and leaves gymnastics. austin does not make the olympic team and blames kaylie. jordan reveals that a former coach, coach keagan, molested her when she was young. desperate to ensure her spot on the team, wendy drugs kaylie with a cold medicine containing a banned substance. after austin and kaylie reunite, then lauren, payson, and jordan tell the ngo that they are boycotting olympic tryouts unless kaylie is allowed to perform. lauren discovers the secret wendy has been hiding and exposes her, getting wendy kicked out. the season three finale culminates with the five girls, payson, lauren, kaylie, plus jordan, and finally colleen, being chosen to represent the u.s. in the olympics.
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