"That’s what happens you get mentally tired, but then physically tired which also plays a mental role. I’m hoping not to let that emotional aspect get to me because we all know when you let too many emotions get to you, you tend to take the easy way out and I can’t do that. I have to wait until it’s done.”
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.