Track and Field seniors give their thoughts on their motivation for their final season.
By: Sophia Rodriguez
Miley Macleod, ’25, says she will participate in the high jump for her senior year, which she has never done before. She says she originally got into Track and Field because, “I played soccer my whole life, so playing soccer and being fast, I just thought the track would be fun. Just seeing the environment, and it’s really good, and it’s a good sport to play and do.”
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To mentally prepare for a big meet and stay motivated, Macleod says, “you just really have to stay out of your head because if you’re in your head too much then you’ll overthink it and you’ll do bad. The pain goes away really fast. It will hurt during [practice], but after it goes away”
The biggest challenge Macleod says she has overcome is “a big meet. Going against really good people and you’re thinking in your head that you’re so much worse than them, but you just have to do your best to try and beat them.”
Macleod says she describes her season so far as “open-minded.”
Nicholas Ramirez, ’25, says what got him into track and field this season was his “friend Samuel Ortega. He moved away last year and he was a really great thrower for track and field, and since I was a friend of his, he persuaded me to join. And other than going out there to be friends, I liked the throwing part of the track. I’m not much of a runner, I like throwing events.”
While mentally preparing for a big meet, Ramirez says he likes, “to hype myself up a bit and remind myself that I can do good I just need to go through the steps on how to execute.”
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“I stay motivated because of the people around me. [In] throwing at least we have a very positive environment, we’re very friendly with each other and it’s not overly competitive in a way, so we are kind of there to help each other and get better, so I think that’s how I do it for the people,” says Ramirez.
“I feel like my biggest challenge would be being able to do the track itself. I’ve been flooded with all these other things but personally I’ve made time for track and try to have fun with it. I would like to try but I would like to see what college I’m going to and if they offer it.”
Since Ramirez has been able to improve since last year, he describes the season with one word: “improvement.”
Sophia Rodriguez
Sophia Rodriguez, class of 2027, is in her second year of journalism at Redwood. She focuses on writing about school sports and enjoys sharing game highlights and player stories.
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