Still a survivor, Husker gymnast Lambert coming full circle

If you would've told Ashley Lambert nearly six years ago that she would be on the doorstep of completing her college gymnastics career, the Husker senior probably wouldn't have believed you.

“It’s kind of ... I don’t know," Lambert said before practice Friday at the Devaney Sports Center. "It’s just kind of weird. It’s just kind of unreal that I was able to make it all the way to the end."

First, some back story.

In May 2011, during Lambert's sophomore year of high school in Newport News, Virginia, a teammate collided with Lambert's head while practicing a vault. The accident separated Lambert's C1 vertebra and fractured her C6. An injury that severe often results in paralysis, but the…