Tony,
In which event(s) did your daughter compete? Indoor, outdoor or cross country?
Living in Arkansas, I’ve attended many indoor track events, watching my Razorbacks usually winning. It’s the winningest program of any sport in the U.S. with 42(!) national championships.
Track competitors are pure athletes, and the competition is amazing to watch.
She was indoor and outdoor track. In high school she did long & triple jump, 300m hurdles, 400m, 4x400m & 4x200m.
She earned a Division I scholarship to Central Michigan University where she competed in the heptathlon her freshman year and then the 400m hurdles, 400m and 4x400m her last three years.
Her 4x400m team were MAC conference champs her senior year. The CMU women's team won conference the season after she graduated, so it was a little bitter sweet sense she was one of the kids recruited to help rebuild the women's track and field program there. She got her degree in Biomedical Science and now lives in Colorado.
She ran in a high school AAU event at Arkansas. That was her first time on a banked indoor track. The University of Michigan has one as well.
Yeah those SEC teams are tough, big time athletics there. I love watching their men's basketball team. I think Eric Musselmen is a hell of a coach.
Her high school has produced quite a few Division I track and field athletes. They currently have a pole vaulter at Ohio State and a sprinter who transferred from Kentucky to Tennessee. They've had athletes in the Big Ten, MVC, OVC and the MAC.
I'll forever be a fan of track and field. Crazy athletes. We had a lot fun following her career and the other women she competed against since high school.