They support everyone on the team and it's like regardless of , you know , if you would like somebody outside of track or like if you like there's no drama , it's like very a very professional friendship and I think that's what It is so important on a team is that your teammates hold you accountable and they have that level of professionalism and you're not all just like buddies and you're all like , you know , they're not , they're not influencing you to do anything bad or , you know , they're , they want the best for you and that's so important . It's important to not lose sight of your goals when you are pursuing a D1 scholarship . But it is also important to take time to really love the things that you're doing because you're going to be doing this for a long time .
Wherever it takes you . Youngstown State is like a smaller D1 school , so you get more of an individualized perspective when it comes to , you know , academics or even athletics . Like it's very 1 to 1 , like even with my advisors , it's very one on one .
I knew I wanted to do cheer and either track or volleyball , um , but I ended up coming here for track , obviously . I got recruited for javelin and um some advice that I would say uh to younger athletes is to go in there ready to retain some knowledge , ask some questions , you know , like , uh , really gain a familiarity with uh the school that you're going to be attending . Um , you don't want to go into anything like blind and , oh , I didn't know this was going to happen .
Um , I do weight , hammer , and javelin . I started my athletic career in competition cheerleading . Um , and if anyone listening has done competition cheerleading , they know it's very by the book .
Like it's important to , you know , pay attention and retain information . So actually my first , uh , my first like recruitment , like when the first time I came here , um , it was a football game and I met my whole team and Uh , it's important to build like a chemistry with the team , even if you don't know if you're going to go to the college , you know , per se , um , do not base your , um , your choice off of What anyone tells you , like , uh , your friends might want to go to this school or your parents might want you to go to this school , you need to do what is best for you . You're becoming an adult , um , so you need to make an adult choice by yourself and , um , go with your heart , follow your heart .
