By Julia Ryan – Staff Reporter 

Junior Addy Barber recently qualified for SCC Championships in long jump during Jonathan Law’s indoor track season. 

Barber is a three-season athlete, participating in volleyball in the fall, and high jump and long jump for the indoor and outdoor track seasons. 

“My goal for this season was to meet my PRs from outdoors or break them,” Barber said. “I did meet my PR in highjump and broke my PR in long jump by 10 inches.”

Barber enjoys being involved on the track team and participating in the challenging long and high jump events.

“Jumping is fun to practice because it’s something that you can improve on every time you jump by just changing little things like switching which foot I jump off of,” Barber said. 

Barber’s coach is very supportive and encourages her to make the changes she needs to improve and fix her mistakes. 

“Addy makes my job easier because she cares about how/why she had a bad jump,” Law high jump and long jump coach Mr. Colon said. “Through that I have helped Addy become a consistent jumper throughout the season because it is very important to continue to jump further and higher.”

Track is both a team sport and individual sport but because Barber is a jumper, she competes alone. 

“I love high jump and long jump because every time i’m competing it’s me trying to improve my own jumps, instead of me against other people,” Barber said. 

Barber is just one of Law’s talented junior track members. Junior Tierney Fedigan competes in the 400M, the 4x400M relay, and the 4x800M. 

“Competing in track against other runners pushes me to be the best runner I can be,” said Fedigan. 

Junior Eshanika Shee said she loves competing in long jump due to its individual nature.

“I enjoy doing long jump because it is an individual sport that focuses on improving my own personal skills,” Shee said. 

Not only does track offer so much for the students at Law but it encourages people from all sports to join.

“Track helps me improve my running for soccer season and allows me to increase my endurance,” junior Natalia Michnik said. 

As an athlete, it is important to set goals and this is exactly what Barber is doing coming out of the indoor track season and entering the outdoor season.

“Indoor definitely prepared me for outdoor because I already am in shape for outdoor, so I will continue to improve my jumps for outdoor and hopefully break my PRs,” Barber said.