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I'm numb and devastated. I appreciate the decision to cancel season for my safety, but I'm devastated. Last outdoor season, I was at my best. I set a personal record every weekend for four weeks. The meet one week before Conference, I was ranked 10th in the hurdles. It was a home meet, all my friends were coming to watch me run and my mom was there.
It was my first event of the day, the triple jump, and I was excited and ready to show off the hard work I had put into the season and the last 10 years of competing. I was the first athlete up, it was my first jump on the day, and I tore my ACL. All summer I worked hard in physical therapy to get back. The surgeon said it was a 9-12 month recovery. I worked so hard.
I got cleared to compete in the outdoor season the Tuesday before the message was sent that my outdoor season was canceled. I didn't even get the chance to compete. I did not get the chance to redeem myself from such a tough injury and comeback. Unfortunately, I can't compete my senior year due to all the classes I'm taking and my internship most likely being moved to fall semester instead of this summer, due to COVID-19 shutting down all sports seasons.
My athletic career of competing in track for 11 years ended with a torn ACL and it's tough. It's tough trying to concentrate on online classes when I'm thinking about my internship, track, and how my teammates encouraged me to get back on my feet and keep pushing forward when it got hard to keep showing up because I couldn't do hurdles.
I am devastated and sad, and until I started typing this out, I hadn't been able to cry.
Track has been the love of my life and it's hard to let go of it.
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