Road to State

I titled my blog, "Road to State" because i think my senior track season was the most life changing experience in my life. I had started to run track in 7th grade and i ran on a summer team for the head coach at my future high school, Franklin High School. When i finally started my freshman season, i had gotten to know many of the members of the track team and began to get comfortable with the level of competion offered in high school. I moved up to varsity at the end of the season and my track team and I had worked to become one of the more competitive schools in our section. As the years passed, many of my teammates made it to to CIF State Meet and I had only made it to the meet on the relay team, never on my own. As my senior year approached, I had trained and worked as hard as I could to make my dream of going to the state meet come true. I stated running right after football ended and would lift weights after practice, sometimes to 8pm. As the season started up, I soon became one of the top sprinters in northern California and was undefeated coming into section finals. At section finals, I won the 200m and placed second in the 100m while setting school records in both of my events. I had finally made it to State. When I traveled down to LA for the meet, my father reminded me of what i had done and why I was here. He said, "You're not here to compete, you're here to win." As the first day went by, I had qualified for the finals. When finals came, I placed 3rd in the 100m and 6th in the 200m. Throughout my season, I had gotten publicity and recocgnition in the newspapers and at school. I had run times that qualified my to get a scholarship to UC Davis and I had proven to myself that withe hard work, your dreams can come true.