For decades, young black gymnasts had to make a difficult choice about where to go to university.
For decades, thousands of black high school gymnasts have been faced with a difficult decision: either join a historically black college or university or keep their gymnastics careers alive.
Morgan Price, a 17-year-old freshman, had originally accepted a full scholarship to the University of Arkansas, which has a big athletic programme. But when she learned about Fisk's new team, everything changed. For years, the 47-year-old had been trying to get HBCUs to launch a gymnastics program. And for years, she was met with silence and rejection.There were scarcely any women of colour in gymnastics in the 1980s when Ms Moore was a young gymnast.
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