PHILADELPHIA – When a freshman leaves the comforts of home and moves to a new town for college, growing pains are to be expected. Leaving one’s family for the first time can be tough. Long phone calls and daily FaceTime sessions can help ease the pain, but nothing beats seeing your parents every morning when you wake up and each night before you go to bed.
West Virginia University freshman Tiara Wright considers herself lucky. No, her family did not move with her to Morgantown when she left her Wilmington, Delaware, home last August. Instead, they are making every effort to follow Wright throughout her first season with the WVU gymnastics team.