TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama gymnastics team signed Corinne Bunagan, Lilly Hudson and Jordyn Paradise to National Letters of Intent, head coach Dana Duckworth announced on Wednesday.

Sarah Grunbok wondered how much of a detriment her youth would be. There was the inexperience, of course, and the difficult adjustment to becoming a head coach unexpectedly and learning on the fly.

Naked men exercising in open-air plazas. Stalwart bodyguards at Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. Diminutive teenagers rocketing off of the ground into a dizzying sequence of flips and jumps. These ...