Aleksia Jump checks to make sure big sis Taygin’s throwing arm still works. (Christina Jump photo)
Go East, young woman.
Coupeville High School senior Taygin Jump is New York-bound after graduation, and she signed a letter of intent Monday to compete in indoor and outdoor track and field at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Founded in 1889, the school is an NCAA D-III school.
Jump is the third member of this year’s CHS track team to sign with a college, with Tate Wyman headed to Oregon Tech and Mitchell Hall off to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
One for the family photo album. (Amber Wyman photo)
The young woman who currently has the third-best hammer throw among all 2B female athletes was a two-sport star for the Wolves, also playing club and school volleyball.
In the world of track and field, Jump vied in eight different events, running sprints and distance races, carrying the baton in relays, and throwing the discus, javelin, and hammer.
At SUNY Plattsburgh she’ll be a Cardinal, and the school mascot is known as Burghy.
The school has some notable alumni, but I’ll skip past disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner to land on my personal favorite on the list — lanky actor Tim Robbins.
He’s the star of films like The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham, and the Coen brothers unsung masterpiece, The Hudsucker Proxy.
Jump’s teammates and friends celebrate her signing day. (Amber Wyman photo)
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