- October 2016
Personal Statement
My name is Kameron Smith and I am currently a Senior at James Campbell High School. I am an aspiring business major in hopes of owning my own hair and nail salon. While focusing on maintaining a high GPA, I am also diligently training year round and working towards the goal of representing my country in the 2020 Olympics.
Track update: 6/24/16
Aloha I just finished my junior year and now preparing for my senior year of high school. My last update for the NCSA site was the end of my very successful freshman year. A lot was learned from that first year. Up until my junior year I was a two sport athlete, always fit and ready for the risk of injury that playing soccer could cause... so I thought. In my sophomore year I strained my hamstring playing soccer, and at this point I knew I would have to give up soccer. The hamstring issue effected my training for my sophomore track season, not good unfortunately. I then attempted to come back in my individual events which were the 100m, 200m, and 400m. Mid-way through the season I came to the realization that there wouldn't be enough time for me to meet my expectation for this year. At this point my focus had to shift to my two time consecutive 4x100 state championship relay team. With this new challenge and the grace of GOD we successfully won and defended our state title. Once sophomore season was over the main focus became coming back stronger for my junior year. Rehab started right after states. It lasted about a month, and at this point we found a strength training coach to prepare my body for the up coming season. He identified a couple of my weaknesses that we would need to strengthen to move forward. One of these weakness was my core and left ankle. He also started me on an Olympic weight lifting program which was new, and definitely worth it. My goals for this year were 11.8 in the 100m, 24.5 in the 200m and 57 in the 400m. I was able to start working with my mechanics coach in November 2015. We were so excited to have this new power to work with. We worked hard to get me ready for competition. It felt so good to run without any tape, wraps, or trips to the trainer. My times started higher than I expected, but dropped 3 tenths of a second everytime I touched the track. Training and weekly competition was on track. Injury free and peaking at the right time. I qualified for states in all four of my events, winning all of my heats during trials. Ready to run and win in the finals. First up was the 100m, last day of the season. Out the blocks at the end of my drive phase I felt something in my lower ham, this is not good. Strained ham, I go down at about the thirty meter mark. My season was done, could not finish the meet.Let's take a moment to take that all in... That lasted two weeks, now were able to get back on the horse. Rehab just finished in the middle of June. All professional advice given , is to not compete in the summer track season. I am taking that advice and starting my journey to my record setting senior season. This season I have a full and dedicated team, strength coach, technical coach and nutritional coach. With GODS will, I will leave this state with my name in their record book.
Academics; My sophomore year was great, I was a 4.0 student on principals list all 4 quarters. Junior year advance placemeant courses became apart of my academic career and I was able to maintain a GPA of 3.75 on honor roll. Senior year I will still be taking advance placemeant courses and preparing for SAT, and ACT testing, and I will update this site with all my results. I look forward to communicating with all coaches that may be interested in my abilities to represent your college, or university for the next level of my track career.Mahalo for taking time out to following my progress.
