About Me and Athletic History Part 1

The in style then was pants to the boobs, apparently

ABOUT ME

I like Superman, unisex names, and photoshopping pictures to make myself look younger. Being as silly, sometimes crude and obnoxious, as humanly possible is my goal in life. I don't even know how I'm employed at times. When I'm not on my mountain bike, I enjoy relaxing at home flipping through Netflix for 2 hrs and running out of time to actually watch anything. I also enjoy cleaning avoidance unless Hoarders is on. That motivates me to dust off that broom. Now I guess I'm going to enjoy blogging. I like math, science, questioning everything, and getting my butt blown up by cursing 8 yr olds when I have time to online game. What can I say, I'm a huge nerd!

I LIKE SPORTS

Actually there's a lot more to me than that but I'll concentrate more on my athletic history. The first athletic thing I remember doing was running around when I was 3 or so with my uncles in the yard playing football and soccer. Sometimes they'd even use me as the football. We'd also wrestle in the house, play kickball, volleyball, they'd trip me as I was running and I'd go down hard laughing.

Holy lips, Batman! Luckily I grew into them.

Supposedly my mom tells me that she knew I was athletic before I was even born by kicking her to death and doing jumping jacks on the way out. Oh Mom! So you knew I was athletic and saw me wrestling around playing football with your brothers and you and dad put me in tap dancing first? Did I seem like a tap dancer to you? ME in my shiny sequined dresses, pink tights, bows, and little kid make-up? Those who know me can imagine the torture to this tomboy. They finally realized though. My mom so eloquently explained her realization to our local paper when they did an article on me in high school:

Paper guy: "So Mrs. Morelock, how did you get her into sports?"
Mom: "Well we had her in dancing but she was such an awkward dancer we put her in soccer instead."

Quoted in the article the whole town read including my friends. I never danced at a high school dance again. I never really did anyway. Makes for a funny story now though. Love you, Mom!

After the tap dancing fun, they put me in a ton of sports from recreational teams eventually to the more challenging traveling teams. Soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball, everything except underwater basket weaving. Soccer was my main one for a while but when we moved to AZ they weren't as into out here yet, so basketball became my main.


Senior yr State All-Stars

To make a long story short (HAHA yeah right) I'll do bullets from here on out:

HIGH SCHOOL

• Had awesome coaches I can't thank enough for pushing us to be our best.
• State Champions in Basketball and several close but no cigar years.
• State runners-up in girls track with only 10 girls.
• Individually all-state and district for track and basketball. A couple years all-district volleyball.
• Traveling softball teams during the summer.
• Colleges were interested for basketball mainly but some for a combo of the sports.
• I was a little nervous coming from a class of 55 to go to a university so chose to stay local and small with a jr. college that is known for its athletic prowess and good academic standings with teams - Central Arizona College (CAC)
• I would be able to do basketball and track after my basketball season. Track team wasn't sure what to do with me since I was pretty decent at a variety of events.
• Post High School did a heptathlon during the summer, which includes the javelin event.
• I like to throw shit far - I was the best out of my family in rock skipping.
• First time throwing the javelin, broke the meet record went on to compete at a big 5 state meet, borrowed a girls javelin from a state that has it and won it all.

I loved my track team and coaches! I'm head locking a couple of teammates



National Champs Basketball

CAC

• Track team found out about my javelin and decided I'd concentrate on that and the other throws.
• Basketball and track teams rocked it and I came away with two National Championship rings my 2nd year.
• Individually, I did pretty good in basketball. Got my fair share of playing time, had some key moments that helped us out in Nationals, and had All-American academic honors.
• For track despite only having a couple of months to practice fully after basketball, I improved a ton and started winning a lot of meets eventually breaking records and crap. I won our AZ College Championships both years and was National Runner-up both years. 
• This wanna be WNBA player was now trying to decide what the hell to do next since I was getting way bigger offers to throw this little ole stick I didn't even know this event existed two years prior and I'd been doing basketball all my life. Whodathunk, right?! Life is funny.
• My first recruiting trip was to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for javelin. I fell in love . The wonderful atmosphere, coaches, team members, the head coach looked like my grandpa and it was close to my family in Missouri, I cancelled all my other trips. All signs pointed to Go Huskers!

National Champs Track and Field