“So I started running freshman year at Bartlett High School for cross country. My coach was over-working me, and I was not aware of this at the time. After my cross country season ended, I started my freshman year of track. I was running and out of nowhere I had a sharp pain in my leg. I went to the doctor and they said that I had a stress fracture in my fibula. I went to physical therapy to heal it. After it healed, I got a knee disease again from running too much. As soon as I got over this, I had an achilles where I had to taken even more time off. A couple months after it healed I was running and I again felt the same pain in the same leg as the first time I got injured. I again went to the doctor and found that I had another stress fracture, but this time it was in my tibia. This put me out for about eight months doing physical therapy and trying to get it healed. I finished out my sophomore year of Bartlett, transferred to Arlington my junior year, got a new coach, and everything has been great since. Now I am a one of the best cross country runners in the state, and I am striving to be the best I can be.”