Arizona GymCats welcome new faces, new experiences as they host UCLA in home opener
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Maybe Arizona GymCats freshman
Jessica Castles should have known her experience in NCAA gymnastics was not going to be a typical one. When she took her unofficial visit to Arizona, it wasn’t at all what gymnastics head coach
John Court had described.
“The first time I came here, John promised me warm weather,” Castles said. “And it snowed that day.”
Just a few years later, she was sitting in McKale Center as a University of Arizona student-athlete answering questions about another snowy day in the Old Pueblo. Not to mention those questions about life as a student-athlete over 5,000 miles from home during a pandemic.