The Ivy League colleges tend be well known in some sports and not so well known in others. One of the sports they're least known in is track and field, especially Harvard. As a young Harvard athlete at competitions, Brenda Taylor was shocked when athletes from other schools thought they were competing against Havaford. Yet the constant stream of people telling her she couldn't go far in the sport only motivated her further. While her college coach was pushing her to train for the Ivy's, she was already focusing on the nationals.
Very quickly, she realized that competition at college is different than at high school and decided that if she was going to continue she'd have to get committed. Since then, she never missed a practice. Her senior year of school, she won the NCAA's and after traveling the world decided to try for the Olympics. Her choice though, forced her to give up many of her achievements in college and to move to California so she could "run in circles for a living ". The first and most important step in her training process was finding a coach and she ended up with the best 400 meter hurdle coach in the country. Their first day of practice when she balked at the long training schedule he had given her, he told her to start focusing on the "possible part of impossible ". For her, the best part of her training experience was doing every day something she didn't know she could the day before.
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