Index4INDEX Card 245: Kerri Strug 2

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

-- Kerri Strug

For more about Kerri Strug, keep reading....

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About the Quote

Even if we're the best at something, we can always do better. We should be string to make today's personal best tomorrow's baseline performance.

Part of striving to be the best is doing things unknown to our own experience. If we're used to winning by 2 points, what's it like to win by 20 points? If we catch 50 throws to us, what's it like to catch 75? If we can throw a ball at 70 miles (113 kilometers) per hour, what's it like to throw the ball at 90 mph (145 kph)? If we know how to swim sidestroke, what's it like to lean to swim using the buttlerfly stroke?

Sometimes doing the unknowen to us is simply doing what we know for a longer time and with a bit more effort. We already know the mechanics of what we do, we just have to do it longer.

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Some (More) Information about Kerri Strug

With Béla Károlyi as her coach, she underwent the demanding and rigorous training required of champions at the highest levels. He did it with Nadia Comăneci in his native Romania; he later did it with Mary Lou Retton when he was a naturalized citizen of the United States; now he would do it with Kerri Strug. At the 1991 US Gymnastics Championships, Strug took 1st place in the vault. In doing so, she became the youngest female ever to win an event in the history of the US Gymnastics Championships.

Kerri Strug qualified for the Olympic team going to the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games. She helped that team win the Bronze Medal. However, she was edged out of the individual all-around finals.

The period between the 1992 Barcelona Sumemr Games and the 1996 Atlanta Sumemr Games was difficult for Kerri Strug. Béla Károlyi retired from coaching, so she needed to find a new coaching staff. Along the way she moved to Florida, then Oklahoma, then Colorado. Although they were good coaches, none could offer her what Károlyi had. Debilitating injuries such as a torn stomach muscle didn't help matters for her. A fall from the uneven bars in competition caused her back muscles to be pulled, and that cost her 6 months for needed healing.

Béla Károlyi ended his retirement to resume coaching, and Krri Strug went back to her former coach. Although he focused on new gymnast and teammate Dominique Moceanu, he still gave her the training she needed to qualify for the Olympics in Atlanta. Media attention went back to Károlyi as expected, but it had shifted from Strug to Moceanu; this allowed her to train in peace.

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