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First HBCU gymnastics program, Fisk University, will shut down after next season because of scheduling, recruiting challenges ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fisk University, the HBCU where North Texas gymnast Morgan Price made history as the first gymnast from an ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Fisk University will discontinue its gymnastics program, the first in HBCU history, in May 2026.
HBCU gymnastics will lose its flagship program at the end of the 2026 season. It's a tremendous blow to HBCU gymnastics as a ...
Fisk University — which started the first Historically Black College and University women's gymnastics program in 2023 — will ...
In a press release, Valencia Jordan, the Director of Fisk Athletics addressed the rationale behind the university's choice to ...
Fisk University gymnastics program is reportedly set to end following the conclusion of next season in 2026. Fisk University, ...
Fisk University's gymnastics program - the first in HBCU history - is shutting down. The Nashville, TN-based HBCU announced ...
Forty-one years. That's how long it took after the first NCAA gymnastics championship in 1982 for an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) to have a gymnastics program of its own.
Fisk University put a gymnastics team together after sensing an opportunity to encourage Black women to compete in the college sport. Ayla Oby and Brielle St. Vil working on the balance beam ...
Now, Muhammad is a gymnast at Fisk University – the first historically Black college to have an NCAA gymnastics team. “I went from being on a team with one Black girl to a team with a bunch of ...
Fisk University made history in 2023 as the first historically Black college or university to field a women's gymnastics team ...