Quick Questions

SENIORS

• Avery Lee

  • Q: What motivates you to participate in track?

  • A: “I like running.”

• Eliza Burnham

  • Q: What is something you look forward to every track season?

  • A: “I look forward to getting close to my coaches and teammates the most.”

• Elizabeth Speed

  • Q:  Do you like cross country or track better? Why?

  • A: “Cross country because I like the team family dynamic.”

• Jerrion Ealy

  • Q:  How do you prepare to train for track compared to the other sports you play?

  • A:  “Is that a trick question?  The reason I run track is to train for my other sports.”

• Mary Price Montagnet

  • Q:  Do you have any pre-race rituals?

  • A:  “We really value our baton. I know it sounds really weird, but before each race we take our shoes with the spike on it and then we scratch a little mark in the baton.”

• Shae Lumpkin

  • Q:  What advice has carried you through track?

  • A:   “Keep running. Just keep running.”

JUNIORS

• Alex Stradinger

  • Q:  How do you prepare mentally for a race?

  • A:  “I just don’t think about it until right before.”

• JC Polk

  • Q:  What do you like most about pole vault?

  • A:  “Kind of the fact that no one does it, it’s my one thing that I can excel at.”

• Price Loposer

  • Q:  What is the biggest misconception about running track and field at Prep?

  • A:   “No comment.”

SOPHOMORES

• Callie McKinney

  • Q:  “Why do you like sprint more versus distance?

  • “First of all, it’s shorter and it’s much easier to train for, but you still have to do a lot.  The times are completely different, and you don’t have to pace yourself, you just go out and run.”

• Haley Carter

  • Q:  What’s one thing you can’t live without during track season?

  • A:  “My spikes.”

• Olivia Sasser

  • Q:  What’s your favorite memory of track season?

  • A:  “When I won state championship for JV and Varsity.”

• Preston Speed

  • What’s your pump up song that you listen to before a race?

  • “Definitely Mo Bamba.”

FRESHMEN

• Havens Smith

  • Q:  What did you learn from getting bumped up to varsity last year?

  • A:  “Accountability. You’re part of the team , and you have to really try your best.”