Five-star freshman Charlotte Booth brings international experience with Team Great Britain to Auburn
Here's the story of how Charlotte Booth made the long journey to Olympic alternate, and how that experience is sure to help her in her college career.
Charlotte Booth had her bags all packed for a quick trip to England.
It would just be a week. She’d been invited to a short, one-week training camp by Team Great Britain, just for some of the depth pieces on the Team GB roster to work on some upgrades while the Olympians started their prep for Paris in another camp, the main camp, over five weeks. She was in the side camp, the development one, but she was still excited about it and was glad to be invited.
She was headed to one more practice stateside on a Friday morning, set to fly out on Saturday, and that’s when her mom got an email.
“I barely was done reading the letter, thinking, ‘What is this?’” Erin Booth recalls. “‘She’s now made an Olympic alternate’?” Then her phone started pinging with texts telling her it was important she checked her email right away — and then the words on the screen started to register:
Charlotte had just been promoted.