Gymnastics programs are expanding at HBCUs with the help of advocacy organization Brown Girls Do Gymnastics.
Fisk gymnast Morgan Price won the all-around national title at the USA Gymnastics women’s collegiate national championships April 13. Fortunately, she knew a parent who was on hand to describe the scene: Morgan Price and Kyrstin Johnson, gymnasts from historically Black schools, sharing an embrace as they finished in the top three during the USA Gymnastics women’s collegiate national championships April 13 in West Chester, Pa.
There, she would compete under an African American coach for the first time. And she relished the community around her, surrounded by teammates who could do her lashes, hair and nails the way she liked. In this year’s final, Price twirled off the uneven bars and stuck the landing to clinch the national championship with an all-around score of 39.225. She also earned first-team all-American distinction in vault, bars and floor. Teammates Liberty Mora and Aliyah Reed-Hammon were named second-team all-Americans in the balance beam and vault, respectively.Johnson, the Talladega freshman who hails from Baltimore, scored a 9.
Like Price, Johnson wanted to attend an HBCU, hoping to compete at a school where she felt she would not need to change herself to fit in. But midway through her high school career, none had gymnastics programs. After Fisk’s announcement in 2022, Johnson committed to the Bulldogs but later switched allegiances after bonding with Sims-Fletcher.
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