When the bell rings on the first day of school at Oak Hill Elementary in Severna Park, 9-year-old Katie Ours will already be here, in a large warehouse that has been converted to a modern gymnastics facility in nearby Odenton.
As her former classmates settle behind their desks Aug. 23, bubbling with the excitement and anxiety of a new school year, the tiny fourth-grader will be stretching and bending, leaping and flipping ? a top student embarking on a very different kind of educational journey.
Along with seven other girls about the same age, youngsters who more or less have become her extended family, Katie will be here at Win-Win Gymnastics until 2:30 p.m. every day, five days a week, pursuing her dream of athletic glory. Then she and the others will go to school, at their homes.
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