Fisk University Gymnast Becomes First HBCU Gymnast to Win a National Collegiate Title
- Tiffany Rigby

- Apr 18, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 18, 2024

Fisk University made athletic history again last week when gymnast Morgan Price became the first HBCU athlete to win a national college gymnastics championship. Price also was named USAG First Team All-American in the All-Around. She joined the Fisk gymnastics team in 2022 when Fisk became the first HBCU to have a gymnastics team.
Price won her title in the USA Gymnastics women’s collegiate all-around competition with a total score of 39.225 compiled over four events. The total score was broken into four parts like the floor exercise (9.850), the uneven bars (9.850), the balance beam (9.725), and the vault (9.800).

The gymnast competed against athletes from other schools including Talladega College, another HBCU that started its gymnastics team last year. Price says she committed to working harder this season after not achieving her goals at nationals last year.
"I just knew that all my preseason work and offseason work really paid off," Price says of her pursuit this time around.
Today, in addition to striving to be the best gymnast, Price says she has her sights set on following in Coach Corrinne Tarver's footsteps and being a head gymnastics coach at an HBCU. Fisk University launched the first gymnastics team at an HBCU in 2022 and Head Coach Tarver, who was the first Black gymnast to win an NCAA all-around title in 1989 has been leading the team since.








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