Track&Field Love

Every since I can remember I've been surrounded by athletes. Both my parents trained athletes and they were both athletes at the collegiate level. As a little girl I always loved to run, whether it was being chased by a dog or purely running on the track while my parents trained. At that age I wasn't in sports yet, except for the ballet class my mom enrolled me in. Ballet didn't last long though, I mostly refused to participate at age four.

As time went on, the summer that I was going into the fifth grade is where track all began. I was entered into summer track on a team called Power Sports. At my first meet ever I competed in long jump and the 100m dash. I had never done those events in my life, but won both events which sparked my interest in track. As more time went on I was enjoying track more and more, and also competed in other events like the 200m dash and 100m hurdles. The hurdles became my ultimate favorite real quick.

Skipping ahead a few years I got a scholarship to run Track at The University of Oklahoma my senior year of high school. You may be wondering why I'm now running track for the UofA, and that's because I transferred due to Oklahoma not being the perfect fit for me. Running track for Arkansas has been a dream of mine for awhile, and now that I'm here fulfilling my dream it makes school and life more enjoyable. Although track may suck sometimes, it has taught me a lot in life and has taught me how to face adversity. It's an individual sport, but to us without our teammates we would never survive practice.