Like so many aspiring gymnasts, Savannah Hodges’ career was over before she could buy a lottery ticket.
It was a torn meniscus that claimed her, along with a broken arm and an ACL sprain. The doctors said that if she kept competing and training at high intensity, she could risk serious damage to her knees.
And Savannah Hodges is not the kind of person to put 99 percent of herself into something, much less 50 percent.
She was not even out of Tucson High before she realized she could not do it in college, but she stayed active, stayed fit and definitely stayed competitive.