Like, for example, Morgan White. Back in the "dark quad" era. America needed a shining light. By late 1999, Vanessa Atler had dimmed. Morgan had some sloppy things here and there, lacked power, and IMO, did something kind of funny with her arm placement.
That said, she came a long way between 1999-2000, especially between Nationals, where she fell on vault, to Trials, where she landed her Yurchenko 1.5. THAT was a big deal for her. Morgan was so teeny and fragile and lacked a lot of confidence, I think, but to her, just getting that vault to her feet was huge. She may not have been Elise Ray that year, but just watching her "grow" and improve over that two-year period, to making the team, I found to be very touching.
And then she broke her foot.
Another one is Courtney Kupets. While I could never get into her strange choices of floor exercise music, and choreograpghy that lacked grace, MAN you have to give it to her for coming back from not one but TWO torn Achilles tendons. In an interview recently I heard on an NCAA competition, whomever the commentator was (can't remember), she noted what a true champion Kupets was, because in the interview, Kupets made note of how she actually looked forward to the comebacks from injury, and fighting her way back. Wow, who likes that?! Who looks forward to that? Who doesn't want to scream and throw a fit an an injury like that?!
Also, as a side note, Kupets needs to teach the world how to do Tchatchevs, Never seen a better one from anyone.
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