Most Olympic hopefuls don't try to juggle collegiate and elite training. Jade Carey needed it to fall in love with gymnastics again.
The Jade Carey who comes to the phone is not the expected Jade Carey. She’s been described as quiet, reserved, shy. Yet the woman who takes the phone in Corvallis to chat with a stranger is, while perhaps not effusive, certainly engaging. She cracks a joke about an athletic department staffer and mutual acquaintance and bounds into a conversation about her college gymnastics experience at Oregon State. Advertisement She has, to say the least, a lot on her plate.
” The goal all season has been to do the seemingly undoable — pursue excellence, without jilting Olympic training. To the untrained ear, it sounds decidedly uncomplicated — do gymnastics for Oregon State, which in turn equates to prep for the . It is not that simple. Advertisement At the risk of sounding crass, college gymnastics is easier. To score a perfect 10 requires more precision and far less from Carey’s very sizable bag of tricks.
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