Natalia Mendoza '27 Recruiting Profile

My collegiate goals are to become the best version of myself in order to uplift others to the best of my ability. I was once told "Track and Xc are individualist sports and I would never understand what its like to be on a true team", but to me that isnt true. You dont have to have 20 people to be a team you might just have 10 or 7 but that doesnt change the fact you are a team. What makes a team a team is how you work together to collectively be the best. My coach taught us to make eachother better, weather that meant by words of encouragement,helping eachother out with our running form, or keeping up with eachother. A team's strength isnt in its numbers but in its heart and determination, in collage I want to become the best runner I can be and work as hard as it takes to get there along with my teammates.