Erin Jauch has an important decision to consider over the next few months: Retire as a repeat world champion in double mini-trampoline or resume competing and return for another world competition in two years.

The 21-year-old from Crystal Lake, competing for Team USA, took her second consecutive title at the Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships on Sunday in Odense, Denmark.

Jauch trains with her mother, Stacy, the owner and head coach at Fox Valley Tumbling and Trampoline in McHenry. Erin performed her less difficult skills in the preliminary round and saved her tougher ones for the finals, which she executed almost flawlessly.

Jauch scored 71.1 on her two finals attempts to repeat as champion, with Stacy, an assistant coach for Team USA, beside her as she finished. After sticking her dismount, Jauch saluted the judges, smiled and walked over for a huge hug with Stacy.

“I placed my lower difficulty routines in prelims, like I did last year, which I barely got into finals,” said Jauch, a 2012 Crystal Lake Central graduate. “But I had my strong ones in finals, and that’s how you get a gold medal. You have to take a little risk, but it works in the end if you strategize correctly. There are so many little mistakes that happen. That’s so hard about repeating for a gold medal. I wasn’t too confident, because you have to hit four perfect routines, more or less.”

Jauch was seventh after the preliminaries, with eight spots qualifying for the finals.

“It is an amazing accomplishment,” Stacy Jauch said. “I was super-excited because I was actually there as a coach and was able to be on the floor with her. We had the more difficult passes with good form that was able to win it for us.”

Jauch’s older sister, Amber, used to compete in trampoline and coaches with Stacy at her gym. Their brothers, Ryan and Trevor, wrestled at Central and at Northern Iowa. Ryan graduated from UNI, while Trevor still competes there.

Erin Jauch planned on retiring last year after winning the title, then reconsidered.

“I was going to go out on top and I decided to go another year,” she said. “Then, I was going to retire this year, and now people want me to stick around and go to the World Games [in Poland in 2017]. As of right now, I’m probably leaning toward retirement. I’m going to take a few months off and see where that brings me.”

Erin plans on working out at Ryan’s gym, CrossFit MFC, located in the same complex as Stacy’s gym. She wants to let her body heal and think about her future. She will finish her associate’s degree at McHenry County College this semester and plans to enroll in a radiology technology two-year program at Harper College in Palatine. She also will continue coaching younger tumblers at Stacy’s gym.

“I know I’m going to take time off and let my body heal, for sure,” Erin said. “If I miss it a lot and need to come back … you can’t really predict how you’re going to feel. I don’t know. I want to see how I feel when I take some serious time off.”

Erin believes doing cross-fit training will help with her need to be active. Stacy is not certain her daughter is done competing in trampoline.

“I don’t know if she’s finished yet,” Stacy said. “We’ll have to see. To hear the talk with the other [Team USA] athletes, I’m not sure. That’s going to be up to her. If she wants to do it, I’ll support her. That choice is up to her.”