Ellie's High Jump Junior Year

Ellie trained hard the summer after her sophomore year with Coach Ray in preparation for having an amazing jumping season her junior year.  Shortly after school started, her coach let her know that he was moving to coach jumping in Arkansas, so he wouldn't be around to help her this season.  That was pretty devastating to her, but she had trained hard so she felt like she could still do really well this next season.  She spent the fall going to the gym and working on jumps when she could.  Then we traveled to Lubbock and University of Houston for indoor meets.  Shortly after that, the outdoor school track season started. She worked really hard, but she never felt as confident this season as she had last season and she didn't go as far this season.

She also started the season doing long jump so that she had two events for college recruiters.  It ended up being really hard to do the two events because often she had to run between events and she would just be exhausted by the end of one of them.  She stopped doing long jump after a few meets.

She had a lot of fun this season, especially with her high jump friends!