In a Lackawanna Track Conference meet against Dunmore, the sophomore won the 100, 200, 400 and long jump to help the Lady Chiefs post a 107-31 victory.\u00a0Then at the Walter Godek Twilight Invitational, she was the lone three-event winner.\u00a0Hill won the 100 in 13.01 seconds; captured the 400 in a school-record 58.70 seconds; and took the 200 in a school-record 26.05 seconds.<\/p>\n
Family: Father, Graig; mother, Daniela; sister, Brooke<\/p>\n
Coach: Linda Stephens<\/p>\n
Thoughts on your performance: The Dunmore meet, I didn\u2019t really feel good that day. It wasn\u2019t my best performance, but I did it to the best of my ability. But coming out of that, it gave me some confidence. I felt really good Thursday night (at the Twilight Invitational) and I knew I was going to do something good. I just kind of felt it. I feel like I always am a person to run scared. That day, hours before, I kept telling myself that I\u2019ve never really had a good opportunity to show everyone how much work I actually put in. The countless hours of training, driving everywhere, practice, after practice. I really just wanted to show everyone how much hard work I put into this. I\u2019m not an ordinary person, I can do hard things. It was so nice to get that feeling of people knowing my name a little bit.<\/p>\n
You won the 100 at the Twilight Invitational by .01 seconds over North Pocono\u2019s Pia Zangardi. Talk about that race: Honestly, I thought Pia beat me. I thought I was definitely second. Then all my friends came over and told me I won and I was very shocked. I haven\u2019t run the 100 (until this season) since my eighth grade. So I was coming in thinking I\u2019m just going to have fun. I ran it and won and I was just ecstatic. I was so happy.<\/p>\n
How did that help set you up for the 400 and the 200 later in the meet: After the 100, I was like, \u2018This is going to be a great day.\u2019 I had so much adrenaline coming off the 100. Then after I won the 400, I was like, OK, I\u2019ve got to get a three-peat in the 200. And I won it.<\/p>\n
How about setting school records in those two races: Going into the 400, I was going to look at the clock, but then I was like just push to the end and I don\u2019t really care about the time. Then my teammates came rushing over to me and told me the time (58.70) and it was like a dream of mine. I had a hard time really breaking a minute and knowing I did 58 was like genuinely crazy to me. It was an insane moment for me. Going off the adrenaline from the 400, I told my coach and said, \u2018Let\u2019s set it a little lower.\u2019 Obviously I want to break 26, that definitely is an upcoming goal. So I was like, \u2018Let\u2019s get 25 today.\u2019 So I wasn\u2019t really thinking of the school record. But I was just genuinely happy to break my own school record. I feel like that is such a cool thing to say.<\/p>\n
Goals for the rest of the season: I have a lot of goals. This is kind of a longshot, but I want to win the 100, 200 and 400 at districts. I want to place at states in the 400. And probably to break 58 (in the 400) and break 26 (in the 200).<\/p>\n
It seems like the 400 is your favorite event: Definitely. I just absolutely love it. It\u2019s a full-on sprint, but It gives me a little more time to think situation-wise. It definitely is my favorite race. It\u2019s definitely the one that hurts the most, but it\u2019s a good one.<\/p>\n
How did you get into track and field: My seventh-grade year, I didn\u2019t want to run track. My mom kind of pushed me to run track. I didn\u2019t think I would like it. I was really into gymnastics and I actually quit gymnastics to do track. But my mom was a track athlete, my dad was a track athlete and even my sister did it.<\/p>\n
Other sports I play: Soccer, football cheerleading<\/p>\n
Favorite teams: College-wise, Penn State. My family are big Penn State people. And pro, the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n
Favorite food: I love everything, but probably steak. It\u2019s my favorite, especially after a hard practice.<\/p>\n
Cake or pie: Pie, definitely. Apple pie.<\/p>\n
Favorite school subject: Biology.<\/p>\n
Athletes I admire: Anna Hall. I look up to her because she\u2019s very God-driven. She talks about her faith and how it\u2019s pushed her in her running abilities and excel. And then my best friend and teammate Naomi Rude. She\u2019s a high jumper and she\u2019s amazing. She pushes herself to her limits and inspires me a lot to push harder.<\/p>\n
Superstitions and rituals: I actually have a lot, so I\u2019ll give you my top three. I always eat pasta the night before every race. I feel like that\u2019s kind of common. I wear the same hair ribbon in my hair. I eat the same lunch every time before a meet \u2014 rice with chicken and broccoli.<\/p>\n
If I could have any superpower, it would be: Teleporting or reading somebody\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n
One word to best describe me: Passionate<\/p>\n
App I use most on my phone: Instagram<\/p>\n
Funniest teammate: I\u2019ve got to say Naomi Rude. We could be in the hardest workout and she always makes me laugh.<\/p>\n
Three people I\u2019d like to have dinner with: Anna Hall, Tate McRae, Zach Bryan<\/p>\n
Future plans: I want to go into the medical field and help people. I definitely want to run track in college. That\u2019s what I\u2019m pursuing and hopefully I can get some offers by the summer of my junior year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a Lackawanna Track Conference meet against Dunmore, the sophomore won the 100, 200, 400 and long jump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7804,305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-172691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-athlete-of-the-week","9":"tag-high-school-sports","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}