Aspiring young Detroit gymnasts have a true friend in Wendy Hilliard

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Wendy Hilliard was the first African American on the U.S. Rhythmic Gymnastics Senior National Team.

Hilliard trained at Detroit recreation centers that became elite gymnastics grounds in the 1970s.

She founded the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation to provide affordable gymnastics training to youths in Detroit.

Before she was the first African American to make the U.S. Rhythmic Gymnastics Senior National Team.

And before her gymnastics skills were displayed on a global stage.

Future Hall of Fame gymnast Wendy Hilliard began to learn her craft at a collection of recreation centers that were unknown to most of the world outside of Detroit. In this instance, not only did good news travel quickly, but it also traveled beyond national and international borders.

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