AOTW: The best gymnast Alaskas had in years: Meika Lee taking 4th trip to Development Team Nationals [Video]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Tucked away in the Excel Gymnastics Gym in Palmer, Meika Lee has been training much like she’s done for the last decade.

“My parents just put me and my twin brother in the sport when I was 4″, gymnast Meika Lee said. “We had a lot of energy and they needed somewhere for that energy to go.”

At a young age, that’s how many athletes get their start — tossed into a sport simply because mom and dad said so. But for Lee, it quickly became more than just an after school activity. She’s been a Level 10 gymnast now since early 2020, a degree of difficulty on par with that of NCAA rules.

But if you ask her coach, her talent was already showing before she started her competitive career at the age of 6.

“When she was 7, I looked at the parents and …