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Introduction

My name is Megan, but most people call me Skaggs.

I’m a recently graduated student-athlete at the University of Florida with a passion for people & purpose. I built this website to connect with YOU.

For five seasons in NCAA gymnastics, the competition itself was one thing. The reason behind it was another. The Tiny Bow Project grew out of that second half: pairing a performance with a purpose, and using the platform I had to point a spotlight at causes that mattered to me.

What began with two tiny bows in my hair turned into ten causes across the 2022 season, each one carried into a different meet. This site holds the story of that project — the schedule of meets and causes, the charity beneficiaries, and a Giving Tuesday give guide for anyone who wants to keep the giving going.

Tiny Bow Project

Two tiny bows, ten causes

During my fifth and final season as a Gator, my competition hairstyle became double braids and two tiny bows. Each meet carried a different cause. Ten causes were selected that are close to my heart.

Most NCAA athletes receive four years of competition. I wanted my final one to mean something beyond a routine, a score, or a placement — so I let the bows do the talking.

This is the official site of Megan Skaggs, an athlete and student whose story is told in plain, honest language. The page opens with a simple greeting rather than a slogan, which sets the tone for everything that follows: a person-first introduction to someone whose identity was built gradually through sport, study, and service. The layout breathes, with wide margins and generous spacing that let photographs and words carry the weight instead of decoration.

Behind the project is a small idea that turned into something much larger. A competition hairstyle became double braids and two tiny bows, one for each meet of a final season. What began as a personal ritual quickly took on a purpose, because each bow was chosen to represent a cause close to the athlete's heart. The explanation is told with restraint, letting the idea speak for itself rather than overselling the gesture.

Choosing causes meant asking hard questions about what genuinely matters. Rather than treating a platform as a backdrop for attention, the project used a familiar ritual to point outward, toward communities and people who rarely get mentioned in sport. The pages that follow unpack how a hairstyle became a vehicle for advocacy, and why each individual bow was selected over the many others that might have been chosen.

The schedule section extends the same theme across a season, tying the ten causes to the rhythm of competition. Readers can see how a single idea developed over weeks and meets, gaining meaning as it accumulated. It is a quiet demonstration of consistency: the same small visual marker, repeated, each time carrying a different reason. That repetition is what gives the project its weight and its credibility.

Long before the bows, there was a student-athlete's routine of practice, coursework, and early mornings. The site speaks to that transition from competitive life to what comes after, and to the question of what remains when the training schedule disappears. Sport offers structure; purpose has to be built deliberately, and the project was one attempt to build it before eligibility ran out.

There is a graduation thread running through all of it. The closing of a chapter at a university creates a natural pause, and pauses invite reassessment. Where the athlete had been defined by a roster and a scoreboard, the bows offered a different lens, one organized around connection, learning, and service. The site frames that shift not as an ending but as a starting point for continuing work.

Connection is the underlying idea. Bow by bow, the project reached outward toward people and problems, and each selection says something about what the athlete wanted to learn by paying attention. The site's editorial style, with its airy spacing and understated typography, mirrors that intent: nothing shouts, everything is placed carefully, and the reading experience is allowed to proceed at a human pace rather than a promotional one.

For visitors, the site offers a contact route, a menu of pages, and the story behind the signature look. Small details matter here, since the entire concept rests on noticing them. The result is a portfolio that documents an athlete's final season as a series of deliberate choices, showing how a personal style, a school community, and a set of causes can meet in a single gesture and keep meaning well beyond the last competition.

Tiny Bow Ribbon Pack

Wear the cause alongside Megan

The Tiny Bow Ribbon Pack was priced at $35.00 and included ribbon for one person to wear all ten cause ribbons in their hair alongside Megan that NCAA gymnastics season.

• Ribbon for 1 person to wear all 10 cause ribbons alongside Megan.
• Membership to the “Skaggs Squad” — access to exclusive meet-and-greets and experiences throughout the 2022 NCAA Gymnastics Season.
• 20% of the sale of the Tiny Bow Pack was donated to the charities represented in the Tiny Bow Project.

Details of the pack are on the store page.

Giving Tuesday

A guide to giving

GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a global movement to encourage generosity. The give guide on this site points visitors toward causes they are passionate about, with donation links for organizations including A21, The Trevor Project, Charity: Water, and others.

If you would rather give on your own terms, start with the Giving Tuesday give guide and research the cause that matters to you first.