Kara Patterson arrived at Duke Energy Convention Center Saturday morning to coach her gymnastics students in a downtown tournament.
But before the meet was over, she had traded in her Adidas warm-up pants and T-shirt for a white wedding gown – and had become the blushing bride in a surprise wedding planned by her fiancée, Army Staff Sgt. Ray Hignite, and her father, Brett Patterson. …
Patterson, 20, is a coach at Gym-Nation Gymnastics and Cheerleading in Mason and a student at the University of Cincinnati who has been a gymnast since she was 8. …

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Her new husband is deployed to Afghanistan for 12-14 months starting Jan. 1st.
