I am going to have to make it by the end of the summer.” “I think about it all the time, whether or not I want to go back. “It isn’t out of the question,” she said.
So even though she may be leaning towards staying at Utah and continuing her collegiate career, nothing is set in stone just yet. Training for the Olympics is no easy task and requires a significant commitment. The deadline for a final decision for McCallum is the end of this summer. “They will ask every once in a while what I am planning on doing, but they are pretty respectful of boundaries and don’t neg at it too much.” “We kind of each have our own things,” she said. Her teammates at Utah have on occasion asked her about her plans for the future, not to an excessive degree, though, much to her relief. “It is kind of hard, because I feel like I have to, just because they are, but I don’t want to feel like I have to just because they are.” “It is a touchy subject and it is hard because all my teammates from the Olympics are going back,” she said. Grace McCallum’s return to competition couldn’t have gone much better.Another year, another third-place finish for Utah.
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McCallum’s teammates at the Tokyo Games - Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey, plus alternate Leanne Wong - have all announced their intentions to try and qualify for Paris, and she freely admits that she has felt pressured because of it. “I mean, I love elite too, but college is a completely different feeling, so less stressful.” And I have just been having so much fun with it.
I have never felt so much support from a gymnastics community. “Just because I love it here (at Utah) so much. “I am still thinking about it, but I am leaning towards more college,” McCallum said. She hasn’t decided yet, though she knows the deadline is coming up. Standing on the floor of Dickies Arena following the 2023 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship, McCallum was frank. Olympic team and compete at the Paris Games in 2024?
Will she leave college gymnastics and the University of Utah, even just temporarily, and attempt to make the U.S. FORT WORTH, Texas - It is a question that Grace McCallum has heard before.
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