Article: These three gymnasts like family to each other Pasek, Phillips, Krajchovich headed to state this weekend.(Sports Extra)

Byline: Jerry Fitzpatrick Daily Herald Sports Writer

The three gymnasts have trained alongside one another for so long "you lose track after so many years," says Bret Krajchovich, a senior at Cary-Grove.

Krajchovich can't remember with certainty how many years he and talented training partners Roger Pasek of Dundee-Crown and Matt Phillips of Jacobs have been working out together.

Has it been eight years? 10? 12? He's not sure.

Of one thing he is certain: these are his training partners, not his teammates. At least not in the traditional sense of the word.

"In the end, gymnastics is an individual sport," says Krajchovich. "It ...

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