Megan Clark, pole vaulter, at the New York State indoor Track and Field Championship during her junior year of high school “The NY state indoor meet my junior year; I was scared to death. The indoor state meet was at Cornell and I’d just watched one of my training buddies fall in the box and fracture her fibula. It was the longest meet of my life. We were about 5 hours in at this point, and I just had to focus on hitting my cues and trust that I was prepared. It was the first meet that I figured out how to focus on cues, tune out my fears, and compete despite all of the distractions and external stimuli. And I won my first state title.” 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳? “If I could go back and give baby Megan any advice, I would tell her to take a deep breath and trust herself. She had no idea how good she could be.” #WhereIStarted #HauteVolée Second photo: Kirby Lee // kirby_lee