 I came to ASU because of a generous academic scholarship and the opportunity to pull vault on the track team and I also love the location and I like ASU's focus on research and sustainability. So I'm a pull vulture on the ASU track team. It's really important to kind of stick with the routine so that means getting enough sleep and eating well and then I spend a lot of time visualizing just kind of seeing the vault in your head and thinking about the things that I want to work on and then at the end of the runway you're holding the you just focus in on a couple of things and then just let it loose. Linda, Linda's one you don't have to worry about you know she has everything that you want kind of a little crazy but always wanted to do more. I've walked away many times and I'll see Linda pop back out here on her own time and and do it because if I wrote it down on a paper she's going to do it. You have to be fast and strong for folding so we do a lot of running separate workouts and lifting weights four times a week. Coach Burrell is great because he just loves pull vaulting. He's a volunteer so he's out there on his own time and he just will do everything he can to help make the team better. I would say it's been it's been fun more so just I just appreciate just her desire because she's got the mentality that you need. Somebody that really really wants to be good it doesn't mean you're always going to be good but she's got what you really need the wants. I love my teammates and I really just love being part of the team getting to travel and compete at the division one level. So my freshman year I PR'd by about a foot and vaulted 12 feet and I've been working up since then. My goal is to go 13 this year and I would really like to compete at the Pac-12 conference meet. I got started in research through the NASA space grant program so I submitted my application and they paired me with a mentor Dr. Chris Groppy. My main area of research is learning to design and build radio cameras like the one that's taking a picture of me right now. Most radio telescopes have cameras that have only one pixel which is like trying to make a picture with a light meter. You have to do it point by point and what we do in my labs learn to make cameras in the radio which it turns out there's been very little work done on that so far and what Linda's helping us do is design and build an automated system to help measure these radio cameras because we have to measure how well each pixel works and that takes a long time if it has to be done by hand. For what we want to do in astronomy we want to learn how new stars and planets form and the places where new stars and planets form are these big clouds of gas and dust and space called molecular clouds so we need cameras to be able to take pictures where these stars are forming and we need to look in radio light because these clouds of gas and dust are invisible and optical light. So I have to program the motor to spin at a certain rate and then I also have to collect the data that's coming in from the receiver and I also have to send commands to the receiver to change certain parameters so there's basically three different things that I need to control and so part of that is developing software to integrate all of that and for me it's kind of about curiosity I think humans have a natural urge to explore so research is how we can learn more about the universe we live in. Working in research the whole idea is we don't already know the answer they're doing something no one has ever done before and it's very gratifying to see a student tackle a problem maybe thinking at the beginning that they can't do it but they can do it. So I won't lie and say it's easy to be a student athlete in engineering but it's definitely possible and it can be really rewarding.