EUGENE, Ore. – Many kids grow up looking up to their fathers and wanting to become doctors, firefighters or policemen to be just like dad.
Former UW star Jeremy Taiwo grew up in Renton wanting to be like dad too. The difference, however, is that his father, Joseph Taiwo, was a two-time Olympian who’d competed for his native Nigeria in the triple jump in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games.
“I knew what my dad was, and I was like, ‘Well, I probably should be an Olympian. That’s what I want to do,” Taiwo said in an interview last month.