The first summer, which was the summer of 2016, was a formative one for me. I mentally buckled down and began seriously training for track and field. The end result was that I was able to punch a ticket to the National Junior Olympic Championships for my second time since I began running at 14. The entire summer, I competed while nursing a lower back injury that happened during my football days, so the fact that I was able to weather the storm and make it to the Championships was very gratifying, and showed me that if I buckled down and focused on my goals, I would be able to achieve them.
The next summer was one in which I could