Where is Kerri now? The job of legendary Olympic gymnasts is amazing
Former American gymnast Kerri StrugThe name returns to the headlines, but her life has brought attention to her life since bringing Americans to gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Deadline Reported on Wednesday, September 24 Stranger stuff actor Millie Bobby Brown Will play bastards in an upcoming biopic, now 47 years old Perfect. The film will tell the iconic story of climbing to the vault on an ankle with a severe ankle injury at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. As part of a group affectionately known as the “Great Seven”, Struger and her teammates won the first gold medal in the women’s team competition.
Nearly three decades later, Strag is a long way from the gymnastics mat.
The former Olympian is now working as a program manager at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Juvenile Justice and Crime Prevention Office in Washington, D.C.
“I help nonprofits – tribal and government programs that get federal funding and make plans for high-risk youth.” “So, I feel like I’m still providing some identity to the United States.”
She added: “I want to tell young girls to believe in themselves and your dreams, not your fears. A lot of times we have real obstacles, and sometimes we make ourselves imagine our own things. But you have to focus on what you want and it doesn’t always get better.”
Strager encourages young women to use “these setbacks as motivation.”
The Olympian founded the university at UCLA just weeks after winning the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and later graduated from Stanford University in 2002 with a master’s degree in social psychology.
Although she eventually landed on her feet (she was already used to it), he admitted that it was difficult to get used to the post-Olympic things.
“All I want to do in my life is to go to the Olympics and win gold medals,” she told her. Sports Illustrated June 2008. “And I started to go to college [at UCLA] A few weeks later, that was a transition. I’m used to someone who controls every move and tells me where, what to do and how to do it. The first few months were a little difficult. ”
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After a brief teacher in San Francisco, Strug served as a special assistant in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Treasury.
Strug began his current work at the Justice Department in March 2005.
“If you told me that when I was in Atlanta, I would work as a project manager at OJJDP, I would laugh.” Sports Illustrated. “But at the same time, I think I also know I’m not going to be a fitness coach or a master. It’s important for me and others to prove that I can succeed in other areas, too.”
Struger married her husband Robert FischerIn April 2010, the couple shared two children: son Taylor13 years old, daughter Alayna11.
