A FORMER coach of Filipino-American gymnast Aleah Finnegan hopes she can achieve more milestones for the country after bagging gold and silver medals in her national team debut in the Vietnam Southeast Asian Games last May.
“Aleah is so beautiful and uplifting that she can give everyone the hope you are looking for in your country’s women’s artistic gymnastics,” said Terin Humphrey, a former coach of Finnegan at the Great American Gymnastics Express in Missouri.
“Aleah was still itty-bitty when I coached her at GAGE together with her elder sister Sarah, who was also on the US national team,” said Humphrey, a double silver medalist in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. “They (the Finnegans) have such a great and hardworking family.”
The coach was among the elite instructors in the Legend Performance Camp jointly organized by the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines and the Flip It Forward charity group at the MVPSF National Training Center in Intramuros over the weekend.
Humphrey said that the last time she was able to chat with Finnegan, now a sophomore and a member of the Louisiana State University varsity squad, was last June after the birth of her second child.
