For Bailey Lovett, her fifth year of college gymnastics has been a major balancing act.
Lovett is currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate degree at the University of Arkansas School of Law while completing her COVID year given by the NCAA in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lovett’s decision to pursue law school didn’t start out when she was younger. In fact, it was only a couple of years ago that the thought entered into her mind.
Lovett’s desire was to stay in the sports world, an area that had become familiar to her due to her time in gymnastics. Her main interests were in the behind the scenes duties, specifically contracts. Lovett had the opportunity to meet with people working behind the scenes in college athletics and it was during her meeting with the General Counsel, the legal representative of the university, that she knew that was her ultimate career path.
Her first step to making that happen was taking the LSAT. The fall semester of her senior year was spent studying for the exam, which Lovett called the hardest part. “[It’s] lots of training your brain to think in a completely different way,” she described of the process. Luckily, it only took her one try to get the score she desired.
The second step was to submit her applications. Besides…
