Little Wonder Woman, Reign Biles, is making noise in the gym

She moves about the uneven bars with surgical precision.

Her small, muscular frame flies in circles as she makes her way from the low to high bar and vice-versa.

With her body extended, she swings in long circles before finally letting go of the bar — soaring in a beautifully choreographed series of twists and turns before sticking the landing.

There’s a moment of seriousness in her expression, which quickly gives way to a big grin. It may just be another day of practice for 8-year-old gymnast Reign Biles at the DINAMO Brown’s Gymnastics Center in Sanford, but that doesn’t make it any less serious.

For three hours a day, five days a week Biles trains at the center under the watchful eye of legendary Russian gymnast Alexander Tkachev — a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

The training is intense, but Reign doesn’t mind — it’s a passion she has had since she was a little girl, said her father Jeff Biles, a captain with the Winter Park Police Department.

“The way she got into it was not this last Olympics, but the Olympics before (in 2012),” Biles said. “She was almost 3, and so she saw Gabby Douglas and those five girls, and she was telling me, ‘Daddy, I want to do that.’

“So we took her up to the gym, because I was going to let her look around a little bit, and at that time she was a week away from being 3 — you have to be 3 to start — and she was amazed by it,” he said. “So on her third birthday we took her in and she never looked back — she has been there ever since.”

Biles knew his daughter was destined for big things from the beginning. When Reign first started, she would take her baby blanket with her to practice to takes naps on the pads during the day, because she would exhaust herself from training.

Five years have passed since, and her passion has spun into gold, so to speak. Although the first few years were just training (kids have to wait until they are 5 to compete), Reign made an immediate splash in Level 1 — where she went unbeaten in every competition all the way to a state championship.

The following two years were a bit tougher for Reign, who faced off against other gymnasts who had begun to develop into better athletes. At Level 2, she finished runner-up at states, while at Level 3 she finished a solid third.

With more hard work and training, this year, Reign was able to take the top-prize at the Florida State Championship in Bradenton — taking first place All Around with a score of 37.925 in the Level 4 division.

When asked how she felt to sit atop the rankings at the end of the day, Reign had a simple, yet to the point, answer — “happy.”

Although she will keep training, Reign will skip Levels 5 and 6 before going back into competition in Level 7 in spring 2019.

However, unlike many kids her age, Reign has big plans for her future when it comes to the sports she loves, Biles said.

“She wants to be a Gator; she wants to go to Florida, because the Florida girls gymnastics team wins the national championship almost every year,” Biles said. “She also wants to get out and have her own gym and train there — she thinks her gym is going to be called ‘Sassy.’”

Taking it all in — the practices, the growth of her as an athlete and person — has been just as amazing an adventure for Biles himself as it has been for Reign.

There’s a pride in his voice when he speaks of his daughter’s accomplishments on and off the mat.

“I love it, but you know she isn’t just building herself as a gymnast — she is building herself as a person,” Biles said. “She’s learning how to win, how to lose, how to train, and learning how to be dedicated and a team member.

“At some point in life gymnastics is going to run out and then life is going to take over,” Biles said. “So, she is learning all the good qualities of life by being a gymnast.”