one time i went to texas..

as you may or may not know. i found myself in Lubbock, Texas last weekend. that place is wicked awesome. i might someday find myself in a hick town in texas y'all. you never know. 

PHOTO DROP!

don't hate, the sun looked like a giant tomato and i was unable to capture it's beauty. but this did look sorta cool..

duck face. and soooo happy to be off that wretched bus. 13 hours is waaay too long!

this is Kami Humphrey, she's a heptathlete, and on my team. we were roommates. we may or
may not have gotten to be best buddies on that trip. love her.

the wretched bus.

texas tech has the sickest stadium.
also. these are the jumper boys. we all qualified for nationals.
Khalil, Jarell, ME, Deante, and Eddie.
for some reason everyone besides deante and i thought they had to look tuff. #lame

this is the stadium. it was basically this big circus tent..

Lindsay Pew (toro throwback)
 i look exhausted. yikes.

 they be thuggin..

sometimes this happens. i choose to embrace the person i am.. 

very excited.

 they barged in our hotel room dressed like this.. they had finished competing that night and decided to have some fun..  i guess it was an attempted "strip tease" i took other pictures.. 

not exactly PG.. they're goofs. i love them for it.

 (Deante and Eddie)

toro throwback. Devon Quick, Me, Lindsey Pew
we all run track for different schools. well not run. i jump and they pole vault. it's chill..

my team is the best. i love them. even if they constantly remind me how weird i am. 

look who's weird now.  this is their "not all there kid" face #priceless

so indoor nationals was unreal. i loved every second of it. totally overwhelming though. i tried not to be nervous. and i did pretty well but when you're surrounded by all african-american girls with crazy weaves and obvious athleticism, you might get a little uneasy.. anywho. i didn't do as well as i would've hoped and that's okay it's a stepping stone and a look into what's really out there. the competition is real.
so after i was finished competing i'm sitting on the bench with my team and we're just waiting for the distance kids to finish. the Pima throws' coach, Jared, walks over to me. and says that there's a coach (meaning non JC scout for a real college) who wants to talk to me. Now, Jared has teased me all weekend, he's like Chad where he's totally unethical and nothing like the high school coaches i had. So i was like "dude, if you're messing i'm gonna punch your face, because i know very well that i'm not good enough for any school to want me yet." he laughed and said he was dead serious. Kami told me to be confident. so i followed jared over and thrusted out my hand to this 6'5" 280 lb. guy. his shirt boasted he was from Louisiana Tech and i was rather jittery. here went the convo.
Coach: Do you throw hammer?
Me: huhhh? no. i uhh. i jump. triple jump...
Coach: well you need to throw hammer.
Me: thanks for thinking so.. why?
Coach: you literally have the perfect body type for a hammer thrower.
Me: (i smile, i've been told i should throw before) do i? well i've always wanted to throw..
Coach: did you ever do gymnastics?
Me: yea for ten whole years
Coach: perfect, so you know where you body is in space and stuff? (i nod) so any olympic lifting..?
Me: in high school, but just kind of squatting and bench now and dumbbell stuff.
Jared interjects: ask her what she squatted last week? he does..
Me: uhh. 315...? (quietly)
Coach: (he's literally trembling with excitement) you would be so perfect! you're low to the ground,(you mean short, dude?) but your arms are surprisingly long. and obviously you're strong.
Me: but don't you think a triple jump/hammer thrower would be super weird. like that's not a normal combo
Coach + Jared: it just shows how much of an athlete you are!!
so it went on and on. and they apparently have a good jumps program and he told jared to start me on throwing hammer. so yea. i'm convinced i'd be good at it. it seems pretty cool. and i want to be able to offer more to a college than just triple. then maybe they'll offer me more ... $$$ soooo. now i just gotta convince Chad to let me. it's literally a zero to none chance because he's a piece of poo, who doesn't like to share his athletes. "they have everything to gain, and i have everything to lose". and he thinks i'll get hurt. hurt in throwing? dweeb. it's gotta happen. i want to throw sooooo badly!

here's what hammer is.. don't worry i didn't know what the heck it was either, i was just smiling and nodding half the time while that coach talked..

sweeeeet. M