A RECORD-SETTING CHAMPION JUMPER!!!!

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER!!!!

DID YOU KNOW MY MOM WAS A RECORD-SETTING CHAMPION LONG JUMPER????

SHE GREW UP IN EUROPE. EVERY YEAR THEY HAD THESE BIG TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS.

THEY WERE NATION-WIDE!!!

SHE WON YEAR AFTER YEAR IN LONG JUMP.

ONE YEAR, A RIVAL SCHOOL'S TEACHER  ACCUSED  MY MOM OF OVERSTEPPING THE MARK ON HER TAKE-OFF. THAT'S BECAUSE MOM HAD JUST SET A RECORD FOR LONGEST JUMP EVER, AND THE OTHER SCHOOL'S TEACHER WAS SURE THAT THE RESULT WAS NOT ACCURATE-HOW COULD ANYONE, EVEN A SMALL, SHORT GIRL LIKE MY MOM JUMP THAT FAR?????

THE JUDGES HAD NOT RULED MY MOM WITH ANY VIOLATIONS - THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A CLEAN JUMP.

HOWEVER, THAT OTHER SCHOOL MADE SUCH A GARGANTUAN  FUSS THAT THEY RULED THAT MY MOM WOULD HAVE TO JUMP AGAIN.

SHE DID AND SHE SURPASSED HER PREVIOUS JUMP TO SET A NEW RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT????

AND WITH EVERYONE WATCHING - IT WAS A CLEAN TAKE-OFF TO BOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAY TO GO, MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEN I PERFORMED AS A SNOW FLAKE IN THE SNOW SCENE IN THE NUTCRACKER, I WAS SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN TO DO THE BIG JETE SOLOS THAT OPEN THE DANCE.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!