Kupets Carter’s ‘legend’ status creates unique coaching experience for GymDogs squad

In a venue where an array of memories have been made, it’s commonplace to reflect on the past and how it has led to the present. Sydney Snead does so prior to a meet at Stegeman Coliseum, but it’s not about her past seasons at Georgia, at least not in this instance.

It’s about her coach, Courtney Kupets Carter, and the face of Georgia gymnastics that is plastered across the arena. The hard-to-miss sight is a 40-foot mural of the program’s most-decorated gymnast hung behind the back-wall scoreboard, and it gives Snead a flash of amazement each time she sees it.

“I’ll look over and say ‘Courtney, how does it feel to be in center?’” Snead said. “It’s kind of funny because it’s like ‘You’re still…