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 .
We're number 4 , our long jump team #4 in the country right now , so I feel like that speaks for itself . Personal goals I got for myself slash my team this semester or this season , it's definitely the first thing , you know , keep pushing each other at practice , just keep helping each other out because , you know , as a team we all , we all need each other to succeed . The goal is to end up being taking the number one spot .
And I remember around that time a lot of coaches was hitting me up , but um sadly because of how I was slipping up freshman sophomore year of high school , my grades couldn't really , I didn't really have the grades to go D1 and I had no choice but to go JuCA and my first year of my juCA it wasn't really the best and in my second year when I came back I started picking up on stuff and um . I started hanging around the right people and my coaches was definitely getting me right and I ended up landing at Young So State and ever since I've been here , you know , um , it's been going well so . That's my story .
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 . Freshman year of high school , I was around the wrong people .
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 . Freshman year of high school , I was around the wrong people . My grades were slipping .
