To say this was an exciting 2024 season is such an understatement!
All of the work you put in throughout the year to get you where you want at the end starts the day you step on campus for preseason and doesn’t end until the last routine of your last competition. And then suddenly, it’s all done. It is truly such an odd feeling. Every day, you have a set schedule, you see the same people, you do relatively the same thing, and then, suddenly, you have all the time in the world. And it is super hard to fill this absence.
For this day in the life, I’ll be sharing my experience with the ending of season, the transition into post-postseason, and what this time looks like moving forward. Along with how I navigated this, I got the opportunity to speak with two athletes at North Carolina: Julia Knower, who is going into her senior season, as well as Camryn Rueda, who is coming off her first year.
Although there are many highs and exciting moments throughout the season, this three to four month span is incredibly exhausting. “Gymnastics is one of the hardest sports physically, but also the most demanding mentally,” shared Knower who is coming off her third season as an all-arounder. Competing at this level each week presents hidden challenges and a continuous…
