Already home to America’s first HBCU gymnastics team, Fisk University hosts a joint meet in January that will unite America’s Black women head gymnastics coaches.
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Tarver, the first Black gymnast to win an all-around championship in the National Collegiate Athletic Association while at the University of Georgia, was named head coach of her squad in March.
Last year in August, a TikTok video showing Fisk University student gymnast Zyia (@zyiaalexys on TikTok) and her teammates springing, flipping and spinning at its first gymnastics practice went viral, amassing over 750,000 views and 290,000 likes.
“Sometimes gymnasts that are Black and brown are looked at as not having the ideal body type, or they don’t have the right lines or things of that nature,” Tarver noted previously, according to theGrio.com. “So if they are not the superstars, they have a tendency to get overlooked a little. This is an opportunity for them to have a place because I understand how that feels, and I invite those girls to come on our team.”
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