Huntyr Hamilton is a small town girl who grew up outside of Pendleton Oregon. She has been in gymnastics since she was 6 years old. She is now 14 and she is currently going to Mid Columbia gymnastics academy in Tri-Cities Washington.
Huntyr did dance when she was a little girl and she wanted quit. A few years later she wanted to get back into it so her mom suggested that since she like to do flips and cartwheels that she tried gymnastics. So that is what she did. She ended up enjoying it so much she stayed with it.
So she started going to Gary’s gym here in Pendleton and she advanced so quickly and it became easy for her, that her parents decided that the only help she would get would be in Tri-cities so they started taking her over there. She has been there ever since and is still going.
Huntyr says an ordinary day for her is she gets up and has to be at school at 8 am then her parents have to get her out of school at 12:30 every day then she drives over to Tri-cities and they start their practice. It lasts for about 5 hours. After that she goes to subway and heads home, showers and gets ready for bed. Huntyr states there is not a lot of time to hang out with her friends and do other things because you have to be so dedicated to the sport. She says its so hard to say no when your friends ask you to go to the mall,or go to the movies .
Huntyr wants to be in the 2020 Olympics so she has many goals that she has to set for herself. You have to go to practice everyday, you have to workout to stay in shape, not being lazy when you go to practice, and give it your all. Huntyr is in level 8 right now. In two years she will be able to be considered elite, if she qualifies. That means that once you hit level 10 you can try out for the U S team. Then she plans on going to college at a Utah University in Salt Lake. She is going to try and get a scholarship to go to the University, and continue on with her gymnastics.
Her favorite event is beam. She also does the bars, vault and floor. The hardest move that she is learning right now is a double back handspring on beam. She is working on getting a back handspring back layout step-out
which is a back aerial out of a back handspring on the beam. Which she will need this flight for level 9 and 10.
Huntyr wants to live in Salt Lake city Utah. She plans on opening up her own gym and be a coach.She said”the coaches should have some experience. So then we can help the athletes at her gym.Its very helpful when your coach can show you what to do and not just tell you because you need to know what it looks like.Its a great job and you get to help young athletes achieve their dreams.
In 5 years Huntyr sees herself preparing for the Olympics. After the Olympics she plans on getting a full ride scholarship to The University of Utah where she will compete gymnastics there throughout college.
Huntyr has suffered from some minor injuries.She has broken her wrist from carrying a spring board.She has also hurt her back.She has been doing too many back handsprings.After these injuries happened she had to figure out a way to pump her up before practice and so she decided to listen to music that pumps her up,she also enjoys thinking of funny things that she has done with her friends in the past.
Huntyr loves gymnastics and plans to stick with it her whole life.she enjoys it more than anything. She has always loved gymnastics and always will even when she gets older. #gymnast4life But right now she wants to take it one step at a time.
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