All-American Iowa gymnast honors his group’s legacy with a graphic design galley

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – When he discovered the 2021 season could be Iowa males’s gymnastics’ final, Evan Davis stated he was harm.

“For a very long time there was a number of hate in the direction of the college and people who find themselves liable for the choice making,” Davis, an Iowa senior, stated.

However Davis quickly had a change of coronary heart. The graphic design main had another season to complete, and a senior challenge to begin.

“After I first began the primary couple brainstorming concepts I actually wished present that we had been betrayed,” he stated. “However as I began researching this system, there was nothing however love.”

Within the fall of 2021, the Iowa males’s gymnastics group had its remaining season, and Davis – together with teammate Bennet Huang – turned Iowa’s remaining All-Individuals.

The legacy of the group lives on in room E-450 within the Iowa Visible Arts Constructing, with Davis’ senior challenge.

Davis says identical to in gymnastics, graphic design is about enchancment and reaching new heights.

“Every challenge I’ve been doing, I’ve tried to get grander and greater and see how far I can push myself,” Davis stated. “That’s one thing that I’ve actually discovered from gymnastics. That dedication, the grind and understanding learn how to hold pushing myself till I discover out what my restrict is.”

The challenge celebrates the group, from its earliest days, to its remaining season. It is going to be taken down on Saturday, March twenty sixth, at 10:00 pm, however the group’s legacy lives on within the GymACT, a non-NCAA group for school gymnastics groups.

As for Davis, he’ll nonetheless be setting a excessive bar.

“That’s form of what this challenge was,” Davis stated. “Determining how far I may push it, one step additional, I nonetheless really feel like I’ve room to develop.”

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