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It sounds like your recruitment process was a bit unconventional, but it led you to a good place. It's great that you took advantage of the opportunities presented to you and utilized the skills you've learned. It's also admirable that you have a supportive coach who focuses on encouraging athletes to follow their dreams and keep pushing. Your advice to younger athletes about striving to improve every day, both in sports and academics, is inspiring. Keep up the hard work and continue to be a positive role model for others.

Kaitlyn Eger | Youngstown State Track & Field

I've been trying to just take , like , stay consistent with some things , trying to do some more like yoga , meditation or just doing some like journaling , writing down my thoughts , so I cannot , so I can more get out of my head and focus on what I'm here for . I guess my recruitment process was kind of weird but not really . I never really even thought I was going to get recruited anywhere .

Kaitlyn Eger | Youngstown State Track & Field

I guess my recruitment process was kind of weird but not really . I never really even thought I was going to get recruited anywhere . I was off of an injury , so I was just kind of running down the runway and jumping just to see what it would look like .

Kaitlyn Eger | Youngstown State Track & Field

Um it's hard because athletics is how I stay balanced with school , so that I really that as an outlet , but staying organized helps with my busy schedule that I have day to day and at least reminds me where I need to go when . From a young , like a university-wide , I see that everyone is trying to at least take advantage of the opportunities that are given to us . Um , we've had several meetings about different NIL companies and um platforms that we could do and seeing them take advantage of it is amazing .

Kaitlyn Eger | Youngstown State Track & Field

Have questions for they were answered . And then there was a couple of brands out there that you got to reach out , talk to , kind of use those skills that you learned . And so um that was probably an unforgettable experience there .

Kaitlyn Eger | Youngstown State Track & Field

I think my main thing was just trying to find a coach that blended with me , and I didn't know it at the time , but now he's probably one of the better coaches that I could have asked for . If another pole vaulter was to come up and ask me why YSU , and if they were trying to get recruited here , I would tell them that strictly like my coaching , or from my coach's standpoint , Um , a lot of coaches tend to get frustrated with athletes or get really upset when things don't go what they had hoped , but our coach was , um , thankfully he's amazing and he doesn't get , he does get mad . There's some meets where he does get frustrated , but he doesn't take it out on us .