Gymnast Who Became Viral

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A sports article called The UCLA Gymnast Who became Viral,is written by Joy Resmovits she describes the forward of this young girl making a difference. A girl named Sophia DeJus made a difference to UCLA. She made a difference by doing acrobatics in a gym. This article states that Sophia DeJus made her own rules. She did her own thing to change the rules of UCLA. They don’t usually allow gymnastics in UCLA so she made her own rule of allowing gymnastics to UCLA. In UCLA she did her thing she wanted to make everyone be happy and let her be there role model. So in UCLA Sophia DeJus was really proud that she did gymnastics with no one telling her to stop. So in this article Sophia Dejus did her own rules! GIRL POWER!!!

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