69: World Champ Kayla Williams with her Alabama coach Sarah Patterson

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🗓️ 8 January 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The pride of West Virginia, 2009 World Vault Champion and member of the 2012 Alabama NCAA Championship team, Kayla Williams. We discuss:

The unusual origins of her triple full side-pass
Her climb from the JO ranks to World Champion in just months
Why she chose to move to Mary Lee Tracy's gym.
"Chuck and go" elite-gymnastics versus college requirements
Her plans for the future

Next we chat with Kayla's coach, arch-enemy of Georgia's Suzanne Youclan, wearer of sequin gowns, University of Alabama's six-time NCAA Championship winning coach Sarah Patterson. We discuss:

Handling fear in adult athletes
Her opinion on early recruiting
Injuries the elite code could cause for NCAA athletes now
Routine strategy: reward versus short landings
If Sarah DeMeo be the first ever to compete an arabian double pike in college
The role athletic directors have played in NCAA parity
Advice for Men's Gymnastics - no fans means no institutional support

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0:00.0	It was never really my goal. My triple didn't start as a side pass, but at our gym we had kind of like an older floor and we had so many holes in the floor that when I would tumble for my triple I would hit the hole and you know it would send me
0:15.0	spinning cricket or over-rotating or something like that so my coach would just take out a step
0:20.0	like avoid the hole and so finally like I took out a couple steps and I was
0:24.4	finishing my triple in the middle of the floor so we just choreographed it to go
0:28.0	sideways.
0:31.0	This week Kayla Williams from Alabama and her coach Sarah Patterson.
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0:58.0	This is episode 69 for Wednesday, January 8th, 2014.
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1:14.5	Jimtronet. Today we're bringing you an all-interview show and before we get to that I want to give you
1:19.3	you guys a couple quick reminders and that is that we have our listener survey up so make sure to stop by the
1:24.6	website and give us your opinion so we can make the show better for you.
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1:40.0	Also, NCA season starts in earnest this weekend.
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