Golf is my main sport, but in the spring I run track for Poolesville. Freshman year I did the 100m hurdles, the 300m hurdles, high jump, and both sprint relays.

Hurdles are humbling. There's no faking it — you either get your steps right or you don't, and everyone watching knows which one happened. My best in the 100m hurdles came in our first meet against Watkins Mill, and I spent the rest of the season trying to get back to it. The 300m hurdles is a different kind of hard. Everything hurts by the last hundred meters and you still have three hurdles to go.

High jump was new for me this year. I cleared 4'0" at my first scrimmage and matched it a couple more times during the season. I'd like to get higher next year — there's a lot of technique I haven't figured out yet.

The relays were my favorite part, honestly. Golf is just you, all day, every round. Running the 4x100 and 4x200 with my teammates was completely different — you're nervous for other people, not just yourself, and when a handoff goes right it feels like all four of you did something together. We ran 53.87 in the 4x100 at Mountain Bash, which was a good day.

People sometimes ask why I run track when golf takes up so much of my life. The honest answer is I like it. But also — hurdles teach you to commit. You can't half-jump a hurdle. You go, or you crash. That's not a bad thing to practice.