Tanvi Mayya hasn’t had the perfect high school athletic career. The Sycamore senior has competed in varsity-level gymnastics since her freshman year but has dealt with injuries on and off that have changed her competitive course.
Last summer, between her junior and senior years, Mayya sustained the most severe setback that put a speed bump in her senior year goals.
While attempting a new move set on the uneven parallel bars, Mayya landed hard on her right arm with her elbow fully extended. The damaged ulnar collateral ligament sidelined her for the next few months and altered her plans for her final year of competitive gymnastics.
Some high school athletes buckle under the unpredictable changes injuries can bring, but not Mayya.
Her coaches, teammates and friends say Mayya has an outgoing and positive outlook on life.
“She makes everybody around her better. And she’s been such a help at Country Day to show them how to deal with situations, how to be resilient, how to not give up, how to take failures as a chance to do better,” said Steve Connor, Mayya’s high school coach and head coach of the Cincinnati Country Day gymnastics team.