Joy Egwu '21 Recruiting Profile

My name is Joy Egwu, I am about to enter my senior year In high school. I believe I started the whole NCSA process around my sophomore year, but really got into it as I learned more summer time 2020. My first sport that started for me was swimming at age 5, didn't like it at first, but just like that I was good at it and liked it continued to do it up until I moved too Midland Tx, due to really focusing and always being busy with track. The ruling process for me started my 7th grade year I signed up for X-Country, had no idea it was until it came to the day I was told what it was and all, I still wanted to try it to do something other then swimming. As soon as I started my first day my coach noticed on how I was sticking with the kids older then me, so she moved me out of group with the younger kids similar to my age and all, and moved up. I enjoyed X-Country, meets and all were great, but I just didn't love it. So my freshmen year was my last time running in X-Country, because when I moved to Midland,Tx my sophomore year practice was early in the morning to where my mom was already off to work and did not know a soul, I really hated the fact that I had to move from a place I was raised and born (Houston, Tx) and where I had all my friends at and family I just hated Midland, but I got use to it. Ended up not being able to attend XC practice since I still couldn't find rides to practice and all, so my coach insisted that I should just try Sprints and stick with the track team, and see how it goes. I have never fell in love with running sprints and learning new things and all & getting better and better at it, so the open 200 / 100 meter dash along with relays became my thing and I just never been so happy, Ive been threw so much like, I might not be as great as all these girls have been since day one, but I give it and still am to get Great to where I want to succeed in this sport I will give up anything just to be Great. I don't care for the money and all this is something that makes me happy in life, and track is not easy at all, some days I honestly don't know how I am able to do the workouts or things to get me better, but I always remember there is never going to be an easy way out to anything you want in life or get to in life. "THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY, IF I QUIT, HOWEVER IT LASTS FOREVER". Hopefully everything I typed was understood in a way, but moral of the story I want it and I won't stop until its all achieved ( I WANT TO BE GREAT, I WANT TO LEAVE MY MARK). ~Joy~