A New Year, a New Reality

Winter track is here and high schools in New Jersey have a new schedule for in-person work outs and competition. Selah has been working out at home and at a recently opened county part that has a track.

There aren’t any club meets in the North East all the way down to Virginia that are contesting high Jump. In fact if she leaves the state for competition she will have to quarantine for 14 days at home upon return. Her school currently has in-person attendance so is it worth it to miss valuable class time during her Junior year? So what do you do to keep up your abilities? Build your own field of dreams…

Recently we have been able to resume indoor workouts and now she will start competing too, for the first time in over a year! Here’s what she’s been up to lately.

Working on lateral jumping for HJ.
Building height

News Alert: Selah Dungey Breaks 17 year old school record as a freshman

Selah broke her third school record, this one for outdoor high jump with a jump of 5’3”. The old record stood for 17 years. She also has the indoor HJ record, and the 200m record as well. Interestingly she practiced throwing the javelin and if it was in a NJSIAA-sanctioned meet she would have broken NA’s record for that too! Next year 😉.

She broke the school record for HJ at home.

Colgate Women’s Games High Jump Champion

Selah won her third national title in high jump. This time it was a national meet for women in the famed New York Armory. It was a tight competion in that she came in to the finals at the #3 contented after 5 preliminary meets in the series. In each prior meet you are awarded points based on where you finished, 13 points for 1st, 11pts for second and so forth. The only way she could garner enough points win it all was to win the finals meet. Anything less than first place would leave her in 3rd place over all. So she tell mom “i guess ill have to come in first.” And with ice water in her veins, that’s exactly what she did!

The very best!