The day Kamila Pawlak switched gyms from Aerial to Metroplex in 2018, there were a lot of tears. Aerial was the club that introduced her to gymnastics at the age of two, that oversaw her progress over the next 10 years, and that gifted her with lifelong connections. Although, upon leaving, she knew that “great things” were to come, she couldn’t have envisaged how great such things would be. Five years later, Pawlak is the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2025 and has recently committed to Oklahoma, the No. 1 school in the country.
Since moving to Metroplex, Pawlak’s gymnastics has undergone constant and steady improvement. In her first year at her new gym, she competed level 9 for the first time, winning the Texas state meet and the bar title at the Western championships. Two years later, after the shortened 2020 season, she qualified to her first Nastia Liukin Cup, and was crowned both the Texas state all around champion and Region 3 vault champion.
Then, in February 2022, came the turning point. Pawlak won the junior title at the Nastia Liukin Cup in her second consecutive appearance. The victory gave her more confidence in her abilities as a gymnast and raised the stakes, too. “It made me raise the expectations I had for myself and motivated me to work…
