My name is Dmitriy Treyger. I was born in Russia and my family came to the United States when I was three years old. Athletic activities have always been a big part of who I am, even since I was just a kid playing on the monkey bars. I would run around the park going between basketball, soccer, volleyball, and games like tag and manhunt. I only seriously started exercising during my junior year in high school. In my sophomore year I joined my school’s fencing team and in my junior year I joined my school’s gymnastics team. Ever since I joined gymnastics, it has become my passion. Although I am not the best at gymnastics (I only really specialize on three events: rings, high bar, and parallel bars) I began to pick up the sport very quickly and was chosen as captain during my senior year. During that year I realized that I could do fun tricks just about anywhere there was grass or a pullup bar and my friends started to know me as the guy who lived in a handstand. I would often get injured from pushing myself too hard. A few seconds after the picture of me on the rings was taken, I tore my rotator cuff. But my mentality has always been the same and will always be the same: I will push myself to my limit, and keep going.
