After one season competing because the second HBCU gymnastics program, Talladega Faculty is halting its program.
The Alabama-based HBCU said in a launch that it doesn’t have the assets to proceed this system.
“Whereas the choice to discontinue the gymnastics program was undoubtedly troublesome, we stay extremely happy with our gymnasts, coaches, and their exceptional achievements. Their dedication and resilience have set a excessive commonplace, and their legacy will proceed to encourage, Talladega Faculty Interim President Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough mentioned.
“This strategic transfer is a part of our broader imaginative and prescient to place Talladega Faculty to be stronger and extra vibrant on all ranges, guaranteeing that we will proceed to supply distinctive alternatives for our college students,” he mentioned.
Talladega Faculty turned the second HBCU program when it launched in 2023, approaching the heels of the inaugural one at Fisk College which piloted one 12 months earlier.
This system produced a nationwide champion in its lone season. Freshman Kyrstin Johnson received the USGA nationwide title in vault this spring. She talked in regards to the influence that the HBCU had on her as an individual in addition to a gymnast.
“It’s one thing I simply began. I really feel like now that I’m at Talladega, I can truly be free to be myself,” Johnson instructed HBCU Gameday. “I felt like in J-O (junior olympics), I at all times needed to pull my hair up or put it in a braids. I’d see the opposite women braiding one another’s hair, doing this, and I’d be within the again struggling, attempting to take off my bonnet, attempting to put down my edges, and check out to verify the half was straight behind my head. However now I can simply do a wash and go. Let my hair out and movement and simply do my factor out on the ground.”
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