Competing at the USAG national championships is exciting, one that not all athletes get the opportunity to experience. Bridgeprot head coach Lorraine Galow has had the privilege of doing so as an athlete and now a coach, leading her team to new heights after so many years of uncertainty at the university.
In the past four years, there have been major changes made to not only the gymnastics program at the University of Bridgeport, but to the school overall. During COVID, there was talk of shutting down the program all together, the possibility of other colleges buying out the school, and the team being left without a head coach, among other obstacles. That being said, when Galow took over, she was essentially starting from scratch. She put together a new team, recruited new athletes, and took in transfers with the ultimate goal of getting Bridgeport back on the map.
“[My freshman year], we didn’t qualify as a team, but I qualified as an individual,” Galow said. “When we missed out at the first championship, it was very telling that we should have been there as a team. We had the capabilities…and we really thought we could win it.” Fast forward to the following year when Bridgeport won the first of six consecutive titles. To get back to that period of…
