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“I feel like she has a good chance. If she wants to train hard enough, she can get there. I think if you want something so bad, you’ll do whatever you can to get it. But it’s also important to have balance because she’s 16.”

Having balance

Reece is also aware of the importance of having balance in her life and says she’s still, in many ways, a “normal teenager”. She likes to hang out with friends, go to the beach, shopping, swimming, or to Pilates.

She’s made plenty of sacri ces over the years for her gymnastics.

Reece does her schooling remotely online so she can focus on her training schedule and routine, and says she misses seeing friends in between classes.

“But then I also think, ‘why? Why am I doing this? Because I want to achieve my goals. It’s worth it’. And I can hang out with them after gym.”

Reece says gymnastics is a hard sport and she likes having that challenge in her everyday life, as well as all opportunities it provides her with.

Ebony says gymnastics prepares people for a lot more than just a life of competition.

“You not only learn gymnastics, but you learn valuable life lessons – self-discipline, self-motivation, self-accountability, doing things for yourself. at’s what gymnastics is, because it’s you against yourself.” you