Its been a long season. I thought back to how much work I put in in contrast w/ my recent akeles tendonitis. I rehabed da hell out of the injury and I felt somewhat ready to go. After the 10+ hr bus ride to Penn State my jump practice a couple days before Big Ten Conference Championships was nothing more than straight booty. I couldnt get off the ground and felt like I was carrying 10 lb rocks in my shoes. My approach felt pretty good and I guess that is all I could make sure was right. I knew come showtime that I probably wouldnt feel that way so I tried as much as possible to keep the head high and confident.

Confidence- is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective.

Something I believe is the most important part of High Jump as an event. I felt good over 6'8 all the way through to 6'11.5". At this point it was just 4 of us. Minnesota's Fisher, Indiana U.'s Droudin and Penn State's Fritz and I, the only one with misses at the previous heights. In the end i missed out on a PB(personal best) and the standings resulted with some of the top jumpers in the nation giving me a thrashing. Ill go to the last chance meet this weekend to get another shot at 2.18 which is probable to be the magic # for NCAA National qualifying.