‘MEN AND WOMEN NEED TO FIGHT TOGETHER FOR EQUALITY’
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, HAS always been home for me, it laid the foundation. Even though my family didn’t have all the things that we probably wanted as far as materialistic items, there was a lot of love in our home, a lot of motivation and a lot of push to be the best that we could be.
When I first started running at the age of 9, I wasn’t one of the best girls. In my first competition, I finished last. But what I loved about it was that it was fun. So I just said to myself: If I can improve a tenth of a second when running, or half of an inch if I was jumping, that meant the work that I was doing was paying off. Eventually, I started thinking that maybe one day I could get some hardware and be on a podium.
But it wasn’t until I was 14, when I saw the’76 Olympic Games on television, that I thought, “Maybe one day I can go there.” We
