Getting yourself familiar with the new regimen of going to college sports , just anything , anything in that um in that regard . College is a lot different from high school . Uh , the collegiate level is a lot different from the high school level .
College is very different from um . College is very different from the high school experience . Uh , College itself is a whole other level of team commitment .
All right , stand by while I have you here . Um , I wanna know , uh , mental health challenges , you know , what mental , did you have any mental health challenges , uh , during your high school , um , that you had to struggle through to , uh . You know , with your sport and everything .
So , uh , moving forward to this year now , um , competing as a freshman , um , what advice would you give to other fellow freshmen , um , or incoming freshmen for , uh , years to come ? To be able to acclimate well the college environment , um , rather than being in high school , whether that's uh speaking with teammates and coaches , um . Getting yourself familiar with the new regimen of going to college sports , just anything , anything in that um in that regard .
COVID actually impacted track a little bit and my sports experience because it was in the middle of the track season of freshman year that COVID hit , which Kind of devastated me as an athlete because I was very passionate about the sport and passionate about running and for the season to be cut short so early was really hard for me . And then sophomore year obviously was just getting back into it after a full year of remote learning , so that was difficult for me as well . But junior and senior year were kind of the years where I discovered and truly locked my passion for the sport , um .
