Jonathan Parker '20 Recruiting Profile

My name is Jonathan Parker I’m from a city called Port Gibson located in Mississippi I wasn’t born with the gift of being the fastest or strongest, but I was given the opportunity to work for it

From a young age I would go outside and run and lift on tree limbs trying to get stronger I wanted to be Superman and I worked like it I had that philosophy and that mind set all throughout my high school career I would run every single day even outside of practice and in the off season no matter if it was cold or raining because I feel as if obstacles are going to be put in your way to stop you from getting better and it’s up to you as a person to ignore those obstacles and push through and that’s what I did because I wanted to win and be better i would lift weights every day for at least two hours workouts such as 

Bench 315

Squat 475

Dead lift 510

And a 35 rep cool down 

All that’s so that I could maximize my peak performance as I ran for a longer period of time and I love to work and loved how I can feel myself getting faster and stronger when I put in the work and that mind set is what drives me to chase my dream even on the college level I have the mind set that ima come in as the new guy and work all day and night to become THE GUY