Cindy McClintock (Tragedies and Triumphs)

Cynthia "Cindy" Nicole McClintock (born 1 January 1979) is an American gymnast.

Biography
Cindy was born in Maplewood, New Jersey to Bryce and Kathy (née Duczyński) and her parents moved to Palm Beach, Florida in 1986, unable to any longer tolerate the frigid northern winters.

A quiet and shy girl, Cindy mostly played alone with dolls but when she was five became obsessed with the gymnasts she saw on TV as her father watched the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She would bend her Barbie dolls to conform to those perfect vertical shapes and try to bend herself as well. Seeing her interest, her parents signed her up for gymnastics lessons but nearly withdrew her when Cindy did a series of handsprings down the stairs.

The solo concentration involved in gymnastics was something Cindy found quite agreeable, and she went all-out in the sport. It was perhaps inevitable, then, that she would be recruited by Gunther Schmidt to train for the Pan Global Games in nearby Fort Lauderdale, in 1994. Although she failed to make the cut for the 1995 games, Cindy was encouraged to stay; Coach Schmidt assured her that she had already improved a lot and still had room to improve before the 1999 round.

The next year, Cindy began to break out of her shyness shell when the boisterous Marlene Cristiano and the highly social Kimberly Hart joined the team and took a liking to her.

Along with Kimberly and Marlene, Cindy competed in her first international gymnastics exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 1996.

Cindy is a Catholic, as are her parents.