Jordyn Ewing’s path through gymnastics is anything but textbook. Few athletes from Halifax, Nova Scotia, make their way into the NCAA and even fewer for gymnastics specifically. During her club career, she advanced through the high-performance track under TAISO Gymnastics, making her senior debut in 2019 after two seasons as a junior elite. Starting in early 2020, right before the start of the pandemic, she began competing under Halifax Alta, where she trained with a larger and older group of elite gymnasts.
Though the timing of her move wasn’t ideal, Canada’s East Coast was the first region in the country to resume a sense of normalcy, dubbing itself the “Atlantic bubble” during the initial year of distancing practices. It was during this phase, with roughly two years of high school remaining, that Ewing began considering collegiate gymnastics. She shared that her coaches at Halifax Alta “really pushed me to that level, started reaching out to schools for me, and helped me with that process.”
One of the major factors in her readiness for the NCAA were the resources available to her through training at Alta, which works along with the Canadian Sport Institute’s (CSI) Halifax location to develop their high-performance athletes. Programming through the…
