The 21-year-old had her final college season with Boise State end abruptly thanks to a ruptured Achilles tendon in her first event of the season back in January.
She is also back in her family home in Halswell after deciding to return home last month amidst the Coronavirus outbreak.
The season-ending injury also curtailed her hopes of competing at her second consecutive Olympic Games.
However, the 12-month postponement of the Tokyo event may offer McGregor an unlikely chance to resurrect that dream.
“When I heard the Olympics had been postponed, obviously it was the right decision but I was initially sad for all the athletes who have to peak at a certain time for that event,” she said.
“Then I saw on twitter people saying I might have an opportunity now and I thought: ‘Well, yeah, maybe’.”
She said it wasn’t as easy a decision as many people would think.
“It is tempting but what people forget is I’d have to put in four to seven hours of work every day for the next year-and-a-half to get there so they don’t know the suffering and work that goes into it.”
McGregor said she had made peace with her season coming to an end.
“I guess I got a bit of a head-start on everyone else when it comes to having the season taken away from you,” she said so when the Coronavirus happened, everything happened so quickly that I thought it was best to get home.
“I haven’t had a period where I haven’t been working out every day for like four hours so it’s been nice to be home and I’m enjoying it so far.”
The Christchurch School of Gymnastics competitor, who is studying health science will decide once her injury heals if she wants to prepare for a potential Olympic campaign of whether she will continue her study into medicine in New Zealand or Australia.
Boise State was ranked 12th in America last year.
She was a major part of why her team won a sixth consecutive Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference title where she was named all-around conference champion last year.
McGregor was a dominant all round gymnast and was Boise State’s team captain in 2020.
At the 2016 Olympics she finished 41st in the all round category and 13th in the vault.
She said having done a lot of her training in Christchurch as a teenager alone, she had enjoyed the grand scale of collegiate gymnastics in America over the past four years.
“At times it was lonely doing it here and then when I got to the senior ranks I did a lot of training on my own so college has been a completely different atmosphere and one I have enjoyed.”
In spite of some big decisions in the near future, McGregor said she was just enjoying being home.
