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SANDY — Set back in the middle of an industrial complex, the building might not look like much, but students at Wasatch Trampoline and Tumbling have golden Olympic dreams.
More often than not, the kids hit their mark, whether it's doing nauseating flips and twists on the ground or acrobatics in the air.
Friday, they gathered to watch the Trampoline competition in the Olympics, and the athletes hope, one day, to compete for gold themselves.
"Of course, like every Olympics, we get a new routine and it's really fun learning the new routine and learning the new tricks that we get to do," said 12-year-old Cayla Patten.
Becky Walker owns the facility and has pretty high standards for her students, and takes them to competitions around the country.
"They all placed really well, most of them were all top ten athletes so it was really exciting," Walker said.
Wasatch TNT may have only been open a year, but they've already got some athletes making some big strides. At a recent national competition in San Diego, two of Walker's student athletes finished in second place.
"It's a lot of fun to go, this little team from Utah, and place well at a national competition," Walker said.
Her team is already looking forward to doing more than just watching the next Summer Olympics in Rio.
"I'll be 16, so I hope that Becky can coach me a lot and help me as much as she can and I'll be in the Olympics one day," Patten said.
Walker said that while her students don't often get trampoline athletic scholarships, many of these athletes turn their focus to diving and aerial skiing where those opportunities are more available and their training will be of good use.
