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Lai Lai Crawford is universally loved by everyone on the
USC track team. We competed in high school and college. She came to the
big meet to cheer us all on!
Someday, someone will beat my school record, but Lai Lai and I will
always have this in common: we were both USC school record holders! She
was the first Trojan over 56 feet and I was the first over 57.
Friends Forever! |
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Drake Stadium is at UCLA and has many
memories for my parents.
I now have formed a memory here. It is a memory of fighting hard,
struggling for incredible victories and suffering a few defeats.
However, the big meets are now ahead of us and we displayed the
incredible potential that exists with our track team by winning so many
events! The
best is yet to come!
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"Ducky Drake"
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Press Conference @ UCLA
A couple
of
things that I realized very quickly once I came on to the UCLA campus.
First—
we were all wearing USC gear and everyone was looking at us, and second—
everywhere you went you saw blue. Jesse Williams accidentally wore a
blue shirt
and immediately had to change because he didn’t “want to wear the wrong
colors”
to the press conference. Among the athletes who participated in the
press
conference were Noah, Kate, Adam, Virginia, Candice, Carol, Garry,
Phillip,
Roy, Jesse, and myself.
The press conference was pretty interesting. It was fun to see some
familiar faces.
I ran into Tony Veney—the sprints coach at UCLA. Tony was at
Oregon
when I was going on my recruiting trip to Oregon back in high school and
was a
former teammate of my dad’s at UCLA. UCLA provided everyone with
sandwiches,
drinks, and cookies for lunch—it was really good! Thanks!
It is the only time that you have Trojans and Bruins together in
the same room.
I felt that the athletes representing each school did a professional job
in their
statements and in answering the media’s questions. Garry, Virginia, and
I also
got a chance to get interviewed on Primetime and Fox Sports after the
press
conference—and that was a lot of fun as well. :) It was fun to see the
school that
both my parents went to as undergrads.
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