I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
When I started training at the age of eight, my dad used to encourage me.
I'm competitive in everything I do. And that started young. Heck, I started racing bicycles when I was 3.
Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.
I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.
Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.
I actually think the last time I stood with a race medal around my neck was after an eighth grade cross-country meet. I was gawky and 65 pounds soaking wet, and running 10 miles a day was no big deal.
