Background
The transition for high school to college is one that every kid dreams about. You're finally moving away from home, going out on your own and beginning to find out who you are as a person. For me this was one milestone in life that I could never wait for. I remember as a little kid I always told my mom that I wasn't going to stay in Arizona for college. As a mother I'm sure that's exactly what you want to hear from your baby, but she seemed to be okay with it. Sports were always a huge part of my life growing up. Heck! Sports are practically what made me into the women I've become today. I can still remember all the different activities I tried growing up. I always wanted to by a gymnast! I tried gymnastics for a little while but it was just to boring in the beginning for me. I wanted to do things right away, not just sit there and do the same thing over and over again. So my dream of becoming a gymnast died when I was about 5 years old. I know some people might think "Awe, how sad" but lets be honest here, we all know I would have never made it very far in gymnastics when just the thought of a roller coaster scares me. So I went on to the next best thing, Track and Field. Most of you know the story of how I fell in love with the sport. And yes the story of me wanting to be a "tractor" is 100% true! I remember days going to practice really young and being the only kid out there with a group of adults. I had no idea what Track and Field was and neither did my mom! But what we did find out, was that I was good at it! We should have got the hint with all the free snow cones I got from beating all the other kids to the foul balls during baseball season. Or all the quarters my bothers coach gave me for the baseballs I brought back to him. I won so many races and got some many ribbons and medals. My mom used to tell me that I wouldn't let her leave the track unit I got my medal. It wasn't until I got older that I started to really focus in track and fell in with the sport. My very first track coach is who made me start thinking about track as a future in my life. He would always ask me what school I wanted to go to and why there. Most of you are probably thinking that from the very beginning I wanted to go to Oregon. Spoiler Alert!!! My top school for the longest time was University of Texas Austin. I loved everything about the Longhorns back then and couldn't think about going to any other school. But this was only because my older brother Tanner was the biggest Texas fan alive and still is. Growing up I wanted to be just like my brother. I wanted to do all the things he did, hence the reason I thought I could play baseball or even football. When I was younger I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I cheered for all of my brothers sports teams and I did different camps with high schools to get better. But there was always something about the bows that I just couldn't get over so I just stuck with track until I found out what basketball was. I never thought I would love basketball, let alone miss playing it. I always thought about playing in college but everyone told me not to, that I should just focus on track because 'I could be really good at it'. To this day there is still a part of me that wishes I was playing in college.Family
I was born in Phoenix, Arizona on May 21, 1995. I grew up with my mom, Jan, and my older brother, Tanner. Growing up my brother and I were like every other pair of siblings. We fought, argued and got along on rare occasions. My brother was my rock and still is. He's been there for almost every game or meet that he could be at. He thought me how to play basketball and sometimes even would let me play video games with him. My brother is more of the soft-hearted one in the family. He's so caring and loving, I like to think of him as a big teddy bear. My mom is probably the best mom around! You're probably thinking 'yeah okay, every kid says that about their mom' but this time its true! My mom has gone through so much to get me and my brother where we are today and be the people we are today. She raised us on her own with no help from our father! She worked countless hours just so we could have whatever we wanted. She had the best support system behind her to make all of this happen. My aunts and uncles along with the help from my grandmas are the reason I'm able to make my dreams into reality today.College
Okay! Enough about the background, lets get to what everyone wants to know. What it's like being an Oregon Duck? Coming into to this track program has made me realize so many things about myself that I never thought about before, good and bad! One thing that I always find myself saying is "No one said it was going to be easy, they just said it was going to be worth it". This quote is what I tell myself almost every day during practice. I was never a year round athlete for Track and Field. I always was playing sports and, like usual, the seasons always over lapped. All of high school I would go from the court right to the track. So this was my very first time doing year round training and also competing in a real indoor season ever! I came into this year as almost just a trial run and see how things go. In the beginning things were good. I was figuring out how to lift and that our coach was no joke! This was a huge change from what I had always had in the past, and I will say, some days I still have a hard time adjusting to him. But everyday seems to be getting better with him and the same goes for the social aspect of my life. College is suppose to be the best four years of your life. You meet new friends that could last a lifetime. So far that hasn't happened for me yet but I still have hope. College has been an interesting ,to say the least, transition for me. Classes have been going really well and I've decided to major in Journalism. I want to do Sports Broadcasting in the future and maybe some photography but I haven't decided yet. So stay tuned as I begin this journey of my life and decide my future. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
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