Page 29 - Final Inspirational Women Issue

INCREDIBLE KIDS OF SAN DIEGO

Ava Hansuvadha

HEADED FOR GREATNESS

By Nini Hodge

HIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT A student academically. When aspirations just like every
Tyoung superstar Gymnast she isn’t studying, she is other kid, she wants to be an
from Poway who is nine years bouncing around the house. Olympic Gymnast, she wants
old and already taking the To keep in shape for her com- to be the world's fastest read-
gymnastics world by storm. petitions, she has her own er, and as a career, she would
Ava Hansuvadha started tak- set of bars and a beam in her love to one day become a
ing recreational gymnastics home. teacher.
at Poway Gymnastics at age Ava is the baby of the Ava has some unique
five. At age seven, Ava joined family and has two older talents aside from gymnas-
Pre-Team and competed in siblings, Andrew who is ten tics; she likes to impersonate
the Arizona Grand Invitation- and Shelby who is twenty, and imitate family members,
al and the San Diego Classic. though Ava claims she would friends, teachers, and coach-
At age eight, she advanced to like to be an only child and es, she also has a knack for
Level three and has com- would gladly trade her broth- re-enacting movies and TV
peted in nine meets for the er and sister in for a Pug. She show lines, she is really good
season so far, with two more currently has a cat named at it too.
coming up at the end of midnight that she loves very Fun Facts: Ava is silly and
April. Ava is so dedicated to much, but she still wants a very animated. She is full of
Gymnastics that she prac- Pug. energy and is usually non-
tices Tuesdays, Fridays, and Ava is just a simple girl. stop go-go-go. I personally
Saturdays for 4.5 hours each She attends Tierra Bonita Ele- think that Ava is headed for
day. We could potentially be mentary School and has lots great things, I for one am on
looking at the next Simone of friends. She loves doing "TEAM AVA," thank you to her
Biles. Her scores are excep- activities with her family such Mom Andrea, for sharing all
tional in every meet in which as watching movies and TV of this info with me I hope
she competes. shows like "Fixer Upper." She you all stay tuned for my next
Considering the fact that loves to travel and especially article where I will be featur-
she is just nine years old her likes the beach. You can often ing another AMAZING kid Photos courtesy of Ava Hansuvadha
top ranking scores are pretty find Ava flip-flopping all over from San Diego County,
impressive. She does all of because she rarely sits down.
this while maintaining very She is an avid reader and
high grades. In addition to loves the quiet time when
being an amazing gymnast, she does get to read a good
Ava is also an exceptional book. She has dreams and

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