I’ve always a thing for athletics and team sports and at the age of four, I traded in playground games for tumbling mats and uneven bars. After a few months, I lost interest and that was that \u2014 the girl who would only grow to 5\u20192\u201d quit gymnastics. Go figure. Once I started Kindergarten I joined track and field, running the 100, 200 and 400 meter races and little did I know I wouldn\u2019t stop moving until I was 18 years old.<\/p>\n
I continued running and added cheerleading to my list of activities in first grade, continuing to do that until the second grade. I then replaced cheerleading with basketball and thus began my athletic transformation from timid to aggressive. I played basketball for 6 years, third through eighth grade, playing all positions and moving up to the lead scorer and go-to player on the court (\u201cIf you can\u2019t do anything just pass it to Christine.\u201d – my eighth grade coach). As this was going on, track and field had been a growing love for me. I was one of the fastest on my middle school team, male and female, and racked up a bucket of medals in sprinting and field events before heading off to high school.<\/p>\n
Upon entering high school, I joined the football team as the only female member and remained as such all four years. I started at all levels (freshman, junior varsity and varsity) as a kicker at least once throughout my high school career, eventually landing a starting spot each season. In addition to kicking, I spent time with the wide-outs and defensive back learning play format and calls. I would eventually be named one of four team captains of the varsity squad my senior year as a varsity starter and four-year senior.<\/p>\n
I continued track throughout high school but stayed mainly in field events throwing discus and javelin after injuring my back running hurdles my freshman year. I ended my collective athletic career after briefly trying rugby in college, abandoning it to concentrate on journalism and reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve always a thing for athletics and team sports and at the age of four, I traded in playground games for tumbling mats and uneven bars. After a few months, I lost interest and that was that \u2014 the girl who would only grow to 5\u20192\u201d quit gymnastics. Go figure. Once I started Kindergarten I joined track and field, running the 100, 200 and 400 meter races and little did I know I wouldn\u2019t stop moving until I was 18 years old. I continued running and added cheerleading to my list of activities in first grade, continuing to do that until the second grade. I then replaced cheerleading with basketball and thus began my athletic transformation from timid to aggressive. I played basketball for 6 years, third through eighth grade, playing all positions and moving up to the lead scorer and go-to player on the court (\u201cIf you can\u2019t do anything just pass it to Christine.\u201d – my eighth grade coach). As this was going on, track and field had been a growing love for me. I was one of the fastest on my middle school team, male and female, and racked up a bucket of medals in sprinting and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14029,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions\/14029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}