I’ve watched this jump plenty of times and gone over it even more times in my head. As I already wrote in my previous post, this jump had me hyped to take my 6th attempt; to say the least. During the jump itself the first thing I realized was that I had landed on the [...]

** Please check Keni Burke – “Rising to the Top” for those who need a little help with the song reference. ** After being in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico since last Saturday morning, I was pretty eager to get the show on the road and Thursday night’s competition couldn’t come soon enough. I had gotten to watch [...]

I did say in my last post that I would eventually share some of the things I learned while hopping around from meet to meet in Europe earlier this month. In Gateshead I was fortunate enough to be roomed with one of my competitors. Yes; I said “fortunate.” Usually this would slightly annoy me, but [...]

Wow! That’s about how I feel after getting back to Virginia after my first true tour on the European track circuit; but not the sort of “wow” you might expect. For all the glitz and glamor that many outside the track and field world think goes with being on the circuit, there’s a WHOLE lot more grit [...]

This past Friday I had the opportunity to spend a few hours at the Haitian Embassy, considered to be Haitian soil, for an event put on by the National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians, in conjunction with the Haitian Sports Foundation and the US Olympic Committee. The event was a prelude to a solidarity [...]