The junior gymnast knew she had competed well in front of the home crowd at the WVU Coliseum at the 2017 NCAA Morgantown Regional Championships on April 1. She smiled when her name was called during the award ceremony, and she waved to her friends and family when she received a bouquet of flowers for her 39.325, fourth-place finish in the all-around.
But – did the Pennsauken, New Jersey, native completely comprehend that she had just made program history, earning the WVU gymnastics team’s 19th individual NCAA National Championships qualification and first since 2014?
“I wasn’t putting the pieces together,” she recalled through a big laugh.