After a two-year stay at the Mill College and the University of Wisconsin, she returned to teach at her old college, whose name had been changed to the Peking Women's Normal University in 1925.
她說：「如果不是父親讓我免於纏足，我不可能到上海念體育，更不可能有機會出國進修。」在美國的頭一年，高梓就讀於米爾女子學院的體育系，這是一所很重視生活教育的學校。一年之後，她轉入威斯康辛州立大學體育系。