Morgan Price does not just make history. She breaks it, walks away, and does it again somewhere else.
The former Fisk University gymnast became the first HBCU gymnast to ever score a perfect 10 in collegiate gymnastics. She did it on bars in February 2025 at Temple University, a flawless routine capped by a full twisting double back dismount that sent her teammates sprinting across the floor to tackle her in celebration. The score shattered her previous career best of 9.90. It also shifted what every Black girl watching gymnastics thought was possible.
One year later, she made that same history at a different school. Price scored the first perfect 10 in the 24 year history of the University of Arkansas gymnastics program, sticking a Yurchenko 1.5 vault against Kentucky on February 20, 2026. One gymnast. Two perfect 10s. Two different programs. Both firsts.
This is the Morgan Price story. And it is the story Flipped, the Coffee Bluff PIctures and Baller Alert Films documentary now streaming on BET, was built to tell.
From Texas To Nashville: The Choice That Changed HBCU Gymnastics
Morgan Price grew up in Texas and dominated Level 10 gymnastics before college. In her final two seasons as a club gymnast she collected ten Texas state titles, eight regional titles, and four top three finishes at nationals. Every SEC program wanted her. She had her pick of any gymnastics powerhouse in the country.
She chose Fisk.
In 2022, when head coach Corrinne Tarver was building the first ever HBCU women’s collegiate gymnastics team from nothing, she asked recruits one question. Do you want to make history. Price said yes. She turned down established programs to walk into a school with no gym of its own, no conference affiliation, and no blueprint. She became a founding member of a team that did not exist yet.
Her reasoning was not complicated. Growing up in gymnastics, Price rarely had teammates who looked like her. At Fisk, she would be surrounded by Black and brown gymnasts. That mattered more than any scholarship offer from a top ten program.
Three Seasons. Six National Titles. One Perfect 10.
What Price did at Fisk is the stuff of legend. Over three seasons in Nashville she won six Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics National Invitational Championship titles. She captured back to back all around championships in 2024 and 2025. In 2024, she swept every single individual event title at nationals, floor, vault, bars, and beam. Nobody had ever done that as an HBCU gymnast. Nobody came close.
She was named the inaugural HBCU Sports Female Athlete of the Year in 2024. She took home the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Amateur Female Athlete of the Year award the same year. She earned First Team All American honors three times. She built a career high of 9.95 on beam, which stood as the highest score in HBCU history at the time.
Then came February 2025. The perfect 10 on bars. The moment the entire sport had to reckon with what a Black girl from an HBCU could do.
The Transfer That Ended An Era
In May 2025, Price announced she was entering the NCAA transfer portal. The decision came after Fisk revealed it would be shutting down the gymnastics program, citing scheduling and recruiting challenges that the university could no longer sustain.
Price went to Arkansas. Her older sister Frankie was already there, competing for the Razorbacks. The reunion made sense on paper. But it also marked the end of something bigger. The face of HBCU gymnastics was leaving the HBCU space. The program she helped build was closing. An era ended.
“I’ve accomplished so much here, and I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve built at Fisk,” Price said in her statement. “But I feel ready for a new chapter and new challenges. I want to push myself even further in my final year of eligibility.”
Coach Corrinne Tarver, who had recruited Price to Nashville and watched her grow into a national champion, was gracious. “Morgan’s leadership and excellence have set a standard for our team and for HBCU gymnastics as a whole. We wish her nothing but the best as she takes this next step.”
History In The SEC
On February 20, 2026, Price walked up to the vault in Fayetteville against Kentucky and delivered a Yurchenko 1.5 that stopped the building. The scoreboard flashed a perfect 10. It was the first in Arkansas program history. It was her second perfect 10 in two years. No HBCU gymnast had ever done what she was doing. No Razorback had ever done what she was doing.
“I love making history,” Price said after the meet. “I wanted to get a 10, and I didn’t really care when, how, or what event, but today I got it.”
She won the all around that night with a 39.575. Arkansas tied Kentucky at 197.125. The moment went viral within hours.
What Morgan Price Means For The Legacy
Fisk gymnastics will end at the close of the 2026 season. The program that Price helped launch will be gone. But her fingerprints are on every HBCU gymnastics conversation happening right now. When Wilberforce announced it was formalizing its program. When the HBCU Gymnastics Alliance started collecting signatures to sustain the movement. When young Black girls saw a team full of gymnasts who looked like them for the first time. All of that traces back to what Price built in Nashville.
She is the story Flipped wanted to tell. She is the reason the story matters.
Watch Flipped on BET.com and the BET YouTube channel to see Morgan Price and the rest of the Fisk team that changed collegiate gymnastics forever.
