This project explores what happens to a personal story before it becomes a book. It examines how lived memory takes narrative form and moves into public life.

Centered on my experience as the first girl to compete on a varsity high-school wrestling team while also competing on an elite, private all-star cheerleading team, the work examines the collision of strength, femininity, visibility, and expectation within a young woman’s body. It considers how that formative chapter evolves as it is remembered, interpreted, and reframed over time.

Rather than presenting a finished memoir, the project remains in development. It exists in the space where narrative is still being formed and asks how meaning shifts as lived experience moves toward literary and visual life. The work is evolving toward screen adaptation and is grounded in process rather than resolution.