Future Plans Include Gymnastics for Alicia Boren
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | Gymnastics
After she finishes her degree, Alicia Boren would like to use the skills that have earned her 14 All-America honors in pursuit of a stunt double.
Alicia Boren has been performing her gravity-defying gymnastics skills for years.
It helped the 14-time All-American to become a four-time Junior Olympic National Level 10 all-around champion, win 44 event titles as a Gator and become the 2018 Southeastern floor exercise champion.
And after she graduates following the end of this season, she has decided to pursue a career that will still allow her to continue doing amazing tricks with her body: being a stunt double.
"I personally think that it's a very hard job and a very important job. Because a lot of these actors or actresses don't want to risk getting hurt," Boren said. "All I do here is step up and get the job done and play a role for my team. And it's just a different role for someone's team somewhere."A final bow at home for senior @gymdiva02!
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Instead of going home to Franklin Lakes, N.J., she is thinking of moving to Atlanta, where she said there is one of the biggest demands for stunt doubles for movies.
"My parents laugh at me," she said. "But I remind them you laughed when I said I wanted to go to big meets, or when I wanted to go to college. And look at me now."
Boren's parents, Alice Tucker and Curt Boren, transitioned from encouraging their only daughter to advance to college to cheering her at every Gator meet – home and away - during her Florida career.
In addition to her goal of becoming a stunt double, Boren has aspirations of returning to gymnastics as a college coach at some point after taking a break from the sport.
She said she would want to model some of the qualities from each of her coaches now, Jenny Rowland, Owen Field and Adrian Burde, if she did coach her own team.
She would want Burde's passion and technicality; Field's ability to relate to his gymnasts and Rowland's ability to make her gymnasts believe in themselves.
"I just want a little bit of something from each one of them to become the best coach I possibly could for whatever team that I could, hopefully, coach for," Boren said.
In what will be her last meet competing in front of Gator Nation after for years, she reflected on what she will miss the most: the fans and their passion.
"They support me, they support my dreams," she said. "That's definitely something I'll miss the most, is just Gator Nation itself that has your back. I know that every Gator fan anywhere has everyone's back."
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