FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Caleb Foster has plenty of experience and knowledge to share.<\/p>\n
After all, he was a double CIF State champion in the long and triple jump for Clovis North High School. <\/p>\n
Then, he was a three-time team National Champion and two-time All-American at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n
No matter how you measure his accolades, though, Foster feels that injuries robbed him of more. <\/p>\n
“There wasn’t a single year in college where I was healthy the whole year,” he said. “My college career was very rough, and so last year, it was less of ‘Oh this took me out’ and more of ‘Oh here we go again.'”<\/p>\n
A calf injury wiped out most of his senior season – by then, Foster transferred to Oregon – yet that hasn’t stopped him from jumping to the next phase of his athletic career. <\/p>\n
“I think now, being out of college, there’s just no pressure. It’s like I’m just doing this for the love of the game,” said Foster.<\/p>\n
Competing for sportswear company VS Athletics, Foster jumped over 26 feet at the West Coast Relays two weeks ago. His father believes the mark sits close to Olympic territory.<\/p>\n
“If he jumps over 27 feet, he’s got a very good chance of making the team,” said Robert Foster, a former two-time Olympian himself. “There are not too many guys right now jumping that far.”<\/p>\n
These days, the younger Foster is training under his father for a shot at the World Championships and the 2028 Olympic Games<\/p>\n
“Definitely unfinished business,” said Robert.<\/p>\n
Robert Foster has coached Fresno Pacific University (FPU) track and field for over a decade, becoming head coach in 2024.<\/p>\n
So, in addition to training Caleb for the first time since high school, he hired his son as jumps coach at FPU. So far, the athletes love it.<\/p>\n
“Coming here to Fresno Pacific, you’re not really expecting to have someone that crazy in the building every day,” said freshman jumper Micah Vossler. “He just jumps so far… Watching him practice with us sometimes, it’s really cool to see where we could be at.”<\/p>\n
Watching Caleb coach makes the elder Foster a proud father.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of humbling at the same time, because I poured into him,” said Robert.<\/p>\n
And as Caleb said it himself: “Why not pour back into the same area that I was poured into?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Caleb Foster has plenty of experience and knowledge to share. After all, he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-261745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}