I go to Young South State and I'm on the track and field team . Best advice I've been given from one of my mentors or coaches , um , shout out coach Mike . He , he always told me to always stay focused and throughout the books , sports , academics , life , just , you know , stay focused to like the bigger picture because I ain't come to , um , I ain't come to Young Sound State to like come here and just I guess like play around or whatnot .
Definitely since I've been at Youngstown , it's been way easier than it was at my junior college because first off we have a great academic staff like on campus to to manage I guess your time and to help you , you know , succeed . I get tutors all the time and it's free so I go to all that whenever I get a chance to sports wise um the best thing that definitely um I've been improving on since I've been here is , um , just , you know , being patient with it at practice , not trying to rush everything , taking my time throughout um practice times , making sure I'm going to practice on time and actually doing every single rep . Because every single like rep counts , like , you know , like back then I ain't gonna lie there was times that I used to get tired I'm I'm gonna just do one more song , but now it's like even when I'm tired I still push through because you know the winning mindset is like , you know , you got to finish when it's over you don't finish in the middle .
My recruiting um process really really really started way back , um . Coming in from coming in from Ghana , which is in West Africa , and then landing at Columbus , Ohio , where my family , um , I guess that's where we grew up at uh my parents put me in sports to keep me out of trouble and stay out the way and uh it kind of helped a little bit until the summer when school was over and I was hanging around around people and then going into high school it was like the same thing over and over again and then we found a solution by . Joining um club teams which over the summer like certain coaches they just host to you know keep the um sports or whatever going over the summer so I started doing that and my first team was great and then it went well , um .
And my indoor season's almost over going into outdoors , so I believe I picked the right school . balancing my academics and my sports career . Definitely since I've been at Youngstown , it's been way easier than it was at my junior college because first off we have a great academic staff like on campus to to manage I guess your time and to help you , you know , succeed .
Long jump in the in the country and I do truly believe with me my personal goal for sure is to be a first team All-American . I'm not going to say exactly when because um you know I believe in God and I believe that he already written my story so I'm gonna just let him , you know , just take control of my my journey and the advice I'll give to a younger athletes trying to go do one . Definitely do not rush the progress , you know , you can't rush greatness .
