“I am most passionate about gymnastics. It’s the sport I chose myself so it’s very personally to me. When I was younger I used to swim, but I ended up quitting because I got burnt out. But every time I feel like I’m starting to get burned out of gymnastics I get to try a new skill or work through something, and it makes me a better gymnast. And even through injuries, [gymnastics] has always been my place.

I had this big break off of gymnastics and the whole time I was still sitting at the gym with my crutches just wishing that I could do something. I just feel like gymnastics really shapes me honestly. Everything that I like to think about, I tie it back to gymnastics in a way.

It helps with my time management because it really takes up a lot of time, and I also have a job, and school obviously, so it’s really balancing out my time. And then honestly just working through my mental processes because although it is very physically challenging, you also really need to be mentally strong because you have to think through each skill one by one, and so just understand myself mentally. And it really helps my time management.”