Another season and another semester over and done with. This one was better than the last and I will never forget what happened. I set out to qualify for my first National Championship ever and I did just that. Despite not racing quite how I wanted to once I got there, it was an experience I will never forget. Now, that has passed and I am trying to survive finals week and preparing to head home for Christmas. But when I leave North Carolina this Friday, I will not be coming back...
Starting in January, I will begin anew at Eastern Washington University. It is time for me to move on to (hopefully) bigger things and do so a lot closer to home. I have known I was leaving at the end of this semester since last school year. I am leaving for personal reasons that no one else is responsible for. My coach, teammates, and school here in NC have been incredibly good to me, and I hate to part with them, but I know this is the right move. I hope to carry the success I found this season into the DI level and grow even more among the fierce competition that awaits me. I know, with the right mindset, I can achieve BIG things.
With all this being said, I want to say thank you to my coach for doing all that he has to help me be successful these past 3 seasons, to my teammates for constantly pushing me and encouraging me to fight for my dreams, my competitors for providing amazing competition for me to run with, and all my friends I made in school for doing your best to make me feel at home here. I will miss each and every one of you and wish you all the best of luck.
"Succes isn't how far you got, but the distance traveled from where you started."
-Steve Prefontaine
Very nice, but sad too
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