At one point or another, we have all used jump roping to wow a playground buddy or to get the blood flowing for a particularly brutal gym regiment. But when a young Cece Fatta, CC ’25, found a crumpled flier tucked in her backpack that advertised jump roping classes at the YMCA, she had no idea that after 12 years of training, a World Championship in Oslo, a teaching stint in Germany, and countless regional performances, she would be a hop, skip, and jump away from wowing 20 million people on live television.