With the 2026 NIU gymnastics season on the horizon, Kiera O’Shea was gearing up to take her senior season by storm. The senior all-arounder was practicing one of her tumbling passes during final touches before the Huskies took the floor during NIU’s annual Red-Black exhibition on Dec. 19. Then she heard an unmistakable pop — the sound of her Achilles tendon rupturing. The tape on her left ankle ripped, and she went down on the floor. O’Shea’s s…
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