Thomas Moriarty '24 Recruiting Profile

All through out my sport career I've  always been obsessed with form. It doesn't matter if its swinging a golf club, spiking a volleyball, or high jumping, I'm always pushing for perfection. I look up to people like Zack Bradford and Kajsa Bergqvist who have practically perfect form. 

At the begining of my freshmen year I was 5'9" at only 120lbs. I didn't care much at the time, but at the end of last season my struggle with pole vaulting really pushed me to work on my strength that I had been neglecting. I started plyometrics and calisthenics at home, though with not even a year of work im barley pushing 140 at 6'1". The only thing other than my strength thats limiting me is my schools track program. We don't have much funding to the point where we've had the same polevault pit and standards for starting on 14 years. The pit has formed a buttcheek where everybody lands, and last season the extension on one of our standards went from some wood my grandfather made, too a broken hurdle, a mettal rod, and a ton of tape. Because of the lack of funding we've also never had proper coaches, as our coaches are all volunteer alumni like this year coaches Logan and my old teammate Ava. Though I've been lucky enough to have my grandfather next to the pit and right at the end of the finish line since middle school when he got me into the summer track program (witch is one of our few sources for funding the track team). His coaching has gone from me asking what I need to do to get better, too right as I walk of the pit I already know what went wrong or what felt weird and the exact reason why. Without my grandfather I wouldn't have been able to make it to where I am now. Im hoping that what comes with competing on a college track team, is a better program with nice equipment, coaches for both on the track and in the weight room. And hopefully access to a good diet, though I always have my savings and my dads old college recipes to fall back on. 

As far as my academics im not at all what my grades show. In my past 2 years of high school I've never had a test grade lower than a B, I just have trouble with completing and submitting all my homework. I understand everything going on in my classes more than fine, I just have trouble presenting it the way that schools want me too. I don't know why school is so hard for my grade wise, and I hope that that alone doesn't ruin my chances. Im excited to see more and more schools going back to accepting Sat and Act scores as I hope thoes tests and my track performance can save me from how much my grades from freshman and sophomore year have messed up my gpa. The gpa posted is only this years as if I add my whole high school pga its more like a 2.