Easter

Its Easter Weekend and it was my first Easter here in New Orleans. We had a meet at LSU on Saturday where I competed in the long jump, 100m and the 4x100m relay. I had a personal record in the 100 running 11.06, which was good. We are traveling to California later this week to compete at UC-Irvine on Saturday and Sunday. The church that I have been going to here in New Orleans also held an Easter service at Tulane in the Dixon Hall Auditorium. I got there a couple hours early to help out by passing out doughnuts to people on campus telling them about the service. The service went really well and the music was awesome. As for classes I am finished. We have a reading week and then final exams will start. I have 2 finals and a presentation then I will be done with junior year…that’s hard to believe. I just got back from a bike ride and there was some crawfest going on at the fly by Audubon Park. I rode my bike through it and I saw some pretty interesting cars around there. After that I just rode around Audubon and stopped to check out the pond then right as I was about to get back on my bike a couple of ducks were right next to me. Hoping for a good end to the semester and a safe trip to California.

Knoxville, TN

We had a track meet in Knoxville, TN this weekend. My cousin is also on the Tennessee football team and they had their spring game this weekend as well. The team got into Tennessee on Thursday and I got to visit with my cousin for a little bit at the track after warm ups. My grandparents, aunt, uncle and my cousin’s grandparents saw me run the 100m on Friday. The meet was also streaming live online, but I forgot about the time change so my mom didn’t get to watch it. One of my aunts though did get to see it said she saw my grandma and my aunt in the background. I was able to spend the rest of the day with them and we went around the campus and into a couple of the athletic facilities. One of my aunt’s big sisters from her sorority lives in Tennessee so we met them for dinner. I had a blast and they were a lot of fun. It was a buffet and it had some great shrimp. I competed in long jump on Saturday and I had some great jumps but I barely missed the minimum measure mark, which was still a PR. It was unfortunate that they didn’t measure it, but I’m excited to take that momentum into the LSU meet this weekend. The spring game was that afternoon and I was able to watch most of it. My cousin is a quarterback and he got in for a series and we got to hear his name over the loudspeaker, which was cool. It was a good weekend and I am thankful I was able to be around family for a little while. Knoxville is a neat place. Our flight back from Knoxville was scheduled to leave at 6:45am but it was delayed until 1:00pm so we flew all the way to Minneapolis, Minnesota from Knoxville then flew from Minnesota to New Orleans. It was an interesting path back to Nola, but I got my boots shined during the lay over.

Home stretch...

We have a little over two weeks of classes left in the semester. We had a meet at South Alabama this past weekend and it went pretty well. We had a handful of personal records and came away with some good memories. I noticed that one my coaches had on two different shoes so I got a kick out of being the first one to notice that and my grandfather that lives in Pensacola also came to the meet. I threw the javelin, long jumped and ran the 100m. I did well in the long jump and missed the finals by a tenth of a meter. It was my best jump this year (6.5m) and a good improvement. Going to hit the 7-meter mark here sometime soon. We have a meet at UT-Knoxville this weekend and we are only taking a handful of competitors. My cousin also has his spring game this weekend so my grandparents will be in Knoxville. We have our last SAAC meeting tonight and we’ll probably be finish up planning for our banquet that is in a couple of weeks.

Rangers off to a great start 9-1!!!