Editor’s note: TJ was somewhat muffled and hard to understand for he first half of this podcast, through no fault of his own. We hope you’ll try to listen anyway, and at about halfway through (the 15:14 mark) he becomes much clearer.
Tejaswin Shankar is Kansas State’s fifth national high jump champion (six if you count indoor) and he might be the most unlikely. The Indian national record holder tells us how he grew up playing cricket before switching over to track and field, which wasn’t an easy decision.
But it’s safe to say everything worked out and he took us through his Eugene experience, capped off by the winning jump on his final attempt to clear the height everyone else had missed three time.