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Heritage Christian Track Star Kya Crook has the top high jump mark in the national in this spring
High jump to say Easy Will not be fair for crocke? With the valid goals of reaching the 2028 Olympic Games to do this, it will discredit hours and hours of work to become one of the best high jumpers in the country.
Crook is one to say Natural It is more accurate in high jump. Because, well, Crook is a natural about everything he tries. She was riding a two-whee bicycle before 2 years of age (no training wheels). She broke her mother’s high jump school record in the first meeting of her new year (it would be in the middle school if they are counted). She could play football in college. Perhaps tennis too. Or basketball.
“My wife Julie and I wanted them to try everything,” her father, Val Kruk said about what and her younger sister Kenzi and younger brother Kaden. “We always strengthened the idea, ‘Let’s try everything.” … I think this is the biggest thing that makes him very good.
A senior of Heritage Christian, Crook made his name as a track and field athlete, already in a long jump to come to the state title and still to come up to high jump with his final high school. But his achievements are not limited to that effort. Or even competing only in sports. You can see him on the other side of the microphone someday as a reporter for NFL, NBA or Major League baseball game.
You will work hard to find more well Person Compared to Crook, which is a city female athlete of the year. The honor, which is in the 1950 dates and grows to include female athletes in 1979, is considered one of the top awards for the Indian-region’s senior high school athletes.
But his true game love is track and field. In particular, high jump.
“Every time I step on the track, it never happens, ‘O, I Pass To be here, “said Kruk. “I want to be out of here. I want to continue to be better. I want to be in practice. I love to be around my peers. I love to meet. It’s not a job; it’s something that I like to do. I think that’s why I keep better – you are better – you are better if you love what you are doing.”
The other finalist for the award, who has been voted by the Marion County Athletic directors, was in themselves both multi-spoke athletes, Anna Kaski of Bishop Chaatard and Kate Kubki of Cathedral. The award is towards athletic achievement, but the winners also display influential credibility in academics and their personal life. Generally, multi-sport athletes are considered single-game athletes, although it is not always the case.
Two weeks ago, Crook was described as a ‘wow’ moment with a 6-foot, 2-inch high jump that ranks first in the United States and was the second in the world for the under-20 age group. The jump is just an ingredient from the all-time Indiana High School Girls Record set by Norrwell’s Angie Bradburn in 1985. Bradburn has also held the state meat record 6–0.
Crook, who would continue his track career at the University of Arizona, achieved a success last year, won the high jump at 5–11 for the first time in a competitive event, including the Wood Memorial’s defending champion Josi Page, who went 5–10. As a sophistication, Crook won the Long Jump State title and was runner -up in the 300 hurdles.
But Crook also had larger places than the state championship.
“I was stuck for a long time on 5–10, 5–11 and it was getting a bit disappointing because I was close to 6 feet,” Kruk said. “Once I kill that 6-foot barrier, it just flipping something and I could get better. I am excited to see how this happens. It was great to see that big PR. My biggest goal for this season is to complete that state (6-0)
Val and Julie Kruk did not guess that their oldest child would get in high jump. way? Yes. The track went on a growing track on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts before going to college at Val Crook Anderson University. Julie (Meden Name Rainwald) was a football star, who was going to play at college at Liberty University.
Val’s background was in sprint. So, when Kya said she wanted to try to jump high in a summer with her club team, her father asked her to move forward and give it a shot. But he had not much to connect – first.
“We were like,” well you are fast and can jump away, “Val said. “But we did not know anything about high jump.”
Val prepared himself to speed up high jump, but coach Vik Johnson and Kama Kya have been placed in itself.
“I just learned to be silent and remain silent,” Val said with laughter. “I am mostly in time and coach.
As soon as Kya tried to jump high, she knew that it was for her. And despite his father saving any and all the credit, he said that the father-daughter time on the track has been one of the best things about his experience in the game. Val Arizona is associated with high jump coach Bob Carter, a technician of the event who has coached four colleges and several Olympians during his long career.
“Every ounce of free time is with my father, he is studying high jumpers and getting information from coaches,” said what. “They are getting information from ‘Coach Bob’, where I will be in the future. The work done in learning high jump to make me better is amazing. He and Vik are the best friends, so they actually work together well. There is no struggle or anything. The opportunity to be a coach by my father and coach Vik is really good.”
Crook actually came to high school, if he could have a game to move forward in football college. If not for its excellence in the track, it can happen. He scored 35 goals as a new person at Heritage Christian, helping Eagles in the Class A State Championship. She kept playing all the way through her senior year. “I really felt that I am going to play football in college,” she said. “I really did. It was not working, but I am glad that I was able to finish it and play football.”
The only reason did not work because he was very excellent in the track and field. Is the mother, Julie, drowned in high jump in high school, but did not stay with it due to football. But in 1994, she did a high jump 5-4 ‘what she was doing in 1994.
“I asked the coaches,” Can I try this? ” Although I really did not know how to jump high.
Kya could have already jumped 13 feet, 4 inches long by 10 years of age. She crossed her mother’s high jump record in seventh grade, although she did not break the record “officially” until her first meeting of her new year. Kya finished second in the state meeting that year, jumped 5-7.
As Kya has continued to pile up the honor and awards, it has become a role model for young athletes in Heritage Christian and Soca Speed Track Club, which Val and Julie began when the body was in primary school. But her position as a role model is beyond looking at children on the track.
“He is a very cute soul,” Julie said. “Even when she was younger, she could understand when a person felt that she was left out and she would like, ‘Come.” I love him, she likes to cheer on other people.
Kruk has the top time to move to the regional region in Lawrence Central on Tuesday in 100 (12.35 seconds), as well as top points in high jump and long jump. Younger sister Kenzi, a sophomore, qualifying for regional in 300 hurdles (45.55).
“She works,” Kenji said about her elder sister. “Every practice, she becomes 100%. She definitely pushes me. I really look at her and like to see her competition every week. I really get excited for her, but I am going to miss her a lot. I am very nervous when she leaves. We are very close and I like to talk to her every night.”
But Kenzi knows that his sister is on big and better things. Kya has aiming to compete at the 2028 Olympics at Los Angeles and to compete high in the college in Arizona. And when she has been competing under the road for years, she would prefer to work as a broadcaster covering professional football, basketball or baseball, and large track meats. And because she is no doubt about what she is, she will work to meet those goals.
She will not forget even those who helped her reach there.
“Prayer with my colleagues is probably one of the most special things I remember,” he said. “And all my teammates on the track team. For many of them, the track is not their number 1 game. We get children from football, football, basketball. It is such a big mixture of children and relationships that I am able to make, even though the heritage Christian is a very small school. I also love that I am prepared to compete with my sister. Am.”
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