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Utah Utes gymnastics: DiLuzio overcomes injury
Utah gymnast could be all-around performer
As a sophomore, she's doing three now that she and trainer Tom Iriye have her leg "hot spot" under control, and she knows it's not going to turn into a stress fracture, which had been a midseason worry.
DiLuzio is visibly working more aggressively since an MRI a few weeks ago revealed the hot spot will not turn into a fracture. "It helps having that in the back of your mind. It might hurt for that minute, but it's not going to make it a season-ending injury if I do a hard landing or something," she said.
She doesn't know if it's actually healing yet and thinks it probably won't until she can rest it long-term. "I think Tom is just doing a good job of making it manageable. It's not going to go away this year, but all the treatments are making it manageable. I can still do gymnastics. I can still do everything."
She's done them all the last three meets and hit career-highs on floor (9.925 at UCLA Feb. 24) and beam (9.85 at Florida March 14). As a freshman, she had a career-best 9.925 vault and finished second in the NCAA vault championships at Utah.
Now that she's able to do vault, beam and floor regularly, the question for the future is if DiLuzio will ever get to become an all-arounder in college.
"Um, I think so. I hope so. I don't know. We'll see," said DiLuzio, who said she's quite happy in gymnastics, having fun training and competing, and in her life right now.
"I don't know if that's ever going to happen," coach Greg Marsden said about whether DiLuzio can come back from last year's elbow injury to some day do bars.
"It bothers her elbow," he said, "and her elbow flares up for everything else," so it's not a good idea for her to even train on bars now.
"And she doesn't particularly like it and that would be an understatement," said Marsden.
"It kind of scares me," she admits. A powerful tumbler and vaulter, DiLuzio thinks that's because she doesn't get to use the power in her legs much on bars. "I don't know if I just trust my legs, or I trust my power. Bars is completely opposite.
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