Suni Lee talks pressure-packed freshman year after winning Olympic gold, how she's able to balance stresses

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Sunisa "Suni" Lee has accomplished more at 19 years old than many do in an entire lifetime.

Lee won an all-around gold medal as part of Team USA’s gymnastics squad at the Tokyo Olympics last summer and enrolled at Auburn University where she would win an NCAA championship on the balance beam, an SEC championship at bars and finish runner-up in all-around. Not to mention she was named an NCAA First-Team All-American, SEC Freshman of the Year and an All-SEC member in her first year with the Tigers.

Lee can make it look easy on the gymnastics floor – whether it is on the beam or on the bars – but she told Fox News Digital in a recent interview she felt more pressure to stand out because of her success at the Olympics.

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Sunisa Lee, of United States, reacts as she poses for a picture after winning the gold medal in the artistic gymnastics women's all-around final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 29, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

"I think in the beginning of the season, I actually didn’t put any pressure on myself, and I was enjoying it. But I think toward the end of the season, I kind of let social media get to my head a little bit and that’s when I started putting a lot of pressure on myself and I felt like I was kind of deteriorating throughout the season," Lee said. "Now, I’m just kind of letting my body heal and my mind heal and I’m ready to get back out there and compete again."

Lee said when she first arrived at Auburn, she came with the celebrity of being a gold medalist and that going to school at first was not an easy experience.

"I think it was a really hard