Trying hard to make a point about the value of love and support making a difference between success and loss brings me to 9:30 am on Saturday morning at Liberty University.

9:30 was the listed start time for the Girls Long Jump and we all knew it would be a hot 🔥 minute before Corrie Delp took the stage for the first of her three attempts.

Envision that you are going to a 2pm movie 🎥 at the local theater in Galax. You know that you have to sit through 20 – 30 minutes of advertisements and previews before you get to the reason you were there. For good measure, the air conditioning in the theater stops ✋ working and now you can add another level of discomfort to the equation.

Corrie Delp went from being mentally prepared to perform from around 10:30 to not making her first attempt until just after 1pm. Three and one half hours after  the event started our Junior finally got to come out of the limited shade and run down the trail that led to the pit of sand.

Surrounding Corrie was her Mother, two Sisters, Dad/ Coach, teammate and Boy Friend. Together ❤ this group kept Delp at an even keel across the long, long waiting period. Just how relevant is staying in the correct frame of mind ?

Two young ladies in Class 3 cleared an amazing mark of 18 feet ➕ during the regular season. Neither one was around for the Finals. Yes, it takes a great deal of athleticism to perform on the biggest stage of the season but to get past the heat, humidity and 210 minutes of can we start already……. it takes a Village and trust me when I say , Corrie Delp had one in Spades ♠️.