FAYETTEVILLE — Many aspiring Olympians took the Games’ coronavirus cancellation with a heartbreaking jolt, then realized it’s for the best.
Brooke Schultz, the University of Arkansas junior diver with an NCAA 1-meter championship and NCAA runner-up, and a host of national and international 3-meter honors, processed it slightly in reverse.
Schultz and fellow Razorbacks women’s diving teammate Maha Amer, a 17-year-old Egyptian Olympian at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, redshirted this 2019-20 season preparing for their countries’ Olympic trials while still coached by Dale Schultz, the Razorbacks' diving coach and Brooke’s father.
Now all that preparation idles with the Games for Tokyo postponed to 2021.