81: Jenny Hansen

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🗓️ 12 March 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jenny Hansen (R) with her coach Randy Lane.

Jenny Hansen is here! Follow her on Instagram as you listen this week and you'll be giggling along with us. The Wisconsin native attended the University Kentucky where she won three consecutive NCAA All-Around Championship titles between1993 and 1995. She is the only person to ever win three straight All-Around titles. Jen won a total of eight national titles. She accomplished all of this while competing as an individual, without a team to set up her scores at NCAA Championships. Then 14 years after her career ended, Make It Or Break It pulled Jen right back into gymnastics when she started doing stunts for the show. In 2011, she went elite again at age 37. We discuss:

Why you should never drink before taking a backflip bet while wearing steel toe boots
The sport that drew her to the University of Kentucky (Hint, it involves Fascinators).
Why she stayed away from elite gymnastics in her youth, but not as a adult.
The importance of fans when competing as an individual.
The ways in which trampoline can save your life.
How to describe your athletic lifestyle on blind dates when you are a stunt woman/gymnast/acrobat/horseback rider.

Jenny on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

38 year-old Jenny Hansen’s Beam Routine From The Final Elite Qualifier

“I want to inspire…show there can be longevity in gymnastics” – new Jenny Hansen Interview

37-year-old Jen Hansen Says That Her Comeback Isn’t Over Yet

Killing Age Stereotypes: 40 Adult Gymnasts to Follow to London 2012

Jenny Hansen on the cover on International Gymnast Magazine after winning her third NCAA AA title in a row.

Transcript

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0:00.0	And I know the whole Jesus is like looking at me.
0:03.0	And I'm thrashing around and we had just hops on top
0:06.0	and shelled me and like,
0:07.0	Jay, what is wrong with her?
0:09.0	And I'm like, I don't know.
0:12.0	I'm like, I don't want to be here anymore.
0:15.0	And she's like, oh, you hurt.
0:18.0	And I'm like, no, I'm like, you let me.
0:21.0	And I'm just until, and I just remember Colleen telling me going she was like I didn't know I just remember Colleen telling me going
0:26.9	she was like I didn't know what to do if I should stop the music but if I stopped the music then it would be dead cricket silence in the gym
0:35.8	so that I just didn't know if I should keep it going and my finger kept going back and forth from
0:42.4	stop to pause to play.
0:47.0	It's an all interview show today with the age-defying 38-year-old elite gymnast
0:56.7	and three-time consecutive all-around NCAA champion Jenny Hanson. Hey gymnast, elite sports band is a cutting edge compression backwormer that can protect
1:10.6	your most valued asset, your back.
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1:19.2	We've got your back.
1:20.4	This is episode 81 from March 12,, 2014. I'm Jessica from Masters Gymnastics, and this is the best gymnastics
1:28.1	podcast of all time bringing you all the greatest people from around the gym internet.
1:32.4	Today we are going to talk to Jenny Hanson and all the greatest people from around the gym internet.
1:33.0	Today we are going to talk to Jenny Hanson
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