NORMAN — Gage Dyer knows his story isn’t the norm.
The junior OU gymnast knows that starting gymnastics as a teenager and quickly moving up the ranks to compete at the U.S. Championships and for the only school he ever considered isn’t something that happens to everyone.
Dyer remembers coming home from Norman’s Victory Gymnastics after his first practice — just a few weeks removed from his 13th birthday — and being crushed.
“I thought there was going to be no hope, because I couldn’t do a pull-up,” Dyer said. “That was how far behind I was.