The silver medalist just landed her the biggest gig in her sport.
INDIANAPOLIS — An Olympic silver medalist is inspiring Indiana with her continued pursuit of new goals.
Sam Peszek won team silver in gymnastics at the Beijing Games in 2008.
She graduated from Cathedral High School and went on to UCLA.
An entrepreneur, Peszek created her own business called Beam Queen Bootcamp. She lives in Austin Texas now and travels the country teaching young athletes about balance – in their sport and in life.
In addition to that, she’s pursued a career in broadcasting and her work in the 16 years since the game just landed her the biggest gig in her sport: analyst for NBC Olympics in Paris.
It’s an honor she’s still processing as she looks back to where the dream started.
“I majored in communications, UCLA, and I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster and really just worked hard and kept putting one foot in front of the other and got …