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With over 90 student-athletes converging for an empowering winter dam-able event in Gill Coliseum, it proved that a sport knows no boundaries. Aiming to prosper the joy of sport and growing inquisitively amongst budding gymnastics enthusiasts, the NCAA gymnastics often run meet-ups to ensure that more talent booms into the sport in the coming future.

Oregon State University, which owns Beaver Gymnastics, recently posted on a social media platform a video of young talents tapering the art of excellence in the guidance of the already well-renowned athletes. Hosted by the senior gymnasts, this seemed an amazing way to bring out the flair in those young minds.

NCAA Gymnastics’ role in flourishing the young talents

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The Oregon State Gymnastics, also highlighted by the name of Beavers, shared an Instagram story that demonstrated a heartfelt display of young children trying to balance on a beam. Cheered by the senior athletes, the joy of the young participants knows no bounds, and because of this, they get encouraged and more inclined towards the sport of gymnastics.

The NCAA Gymnastics has always been ahead of its league to contribute to the amplifying sport. The NCAA women’s artistic gymnastics aims to lay the foundations of life skills such as perseverance, patience, trust, and managing risk on the field. A non-competitive program, with ongoing classes for kids aged 2 to 18 years old, including parent-child classes, the student-athlete programs are targeted to progress each gymnast through learning skills at their own pace.

Preparing them to be future stars, let us recapitulate a student-athlete’s journey through the NCAA gymnastics and how she progressed to being an OSU senior as a 2023 PAC-12 Academic Honoree, this while.

The glorifying journey of a student-athlete

Just as the present budding talents have started to practice their routines on the floor, vault, and beam, to advance to being a future star, a prominent student-athlete name in the history of Oregon State Gymnastics needs a mention. The struggles of being a first-generation student-athlete have not been simple, but worth it. For instance, Ariana Young’s wobbly, yet consistent journey to her professional career is worth a mention here.

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Young picked up gymnastics at the age of 6. It was her mother and then her trainer at OSU, who pushed her to dive deep into the sport while she had started to train then. The now-senior athlete admits that because of her strives, she has now been able to further expand her wings of glory. The student-athlete once said, “

I could go for the things I was originally scared of”, and she attributed that to her coaches and fellow gymnasts who assisted her in believing in herself.

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