ATHENS, GREECE • Heading into this year’s U17 World Championships, Morgan Turner felt like she had something to prove, because, after winning a bronze medal last year at the World Championships in Amman, Jordan, she believed that the bronze began to outshine the gold she won the year before. In this, she believed that she needed to win gold because people saw her differently, and she took it personally.
U17: Turner puts the ‘gold’ back in her name

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