The first Olympics I've watched was 2004 where it took place in Athens, Greece and Michael Phelps was a teenager and collected 6 gold medals and 2 bronze medals that year.

I was watching it with my parents and my brother in the living room cheering for Team USA. I didn't really knew the Olympics covers Swimming back in 2004, because I thought it only covers Track and Field.

So, here I am watching the Olympics with my family and I was cheering for Michael Phelps to make history and break the record in swimming which he broke few that year. My parents were ready to cheer when Phelps was going to compete for his event, and my brother didn't care about swimming, all he cared about was Team USA Men's basketball.

When Michael Phelps was preparing for his race, I was asking parents “How is it like to be an Olympian?” My dad responded “Well, it's probably the hardest job to be and you have to practice everyday. If you want to be an Olympian, you have to start now.” Then I told him that I wanted to be either a police officer or a journalist when I grow up.

Although my mom didn't want me to become neither, she wanted me to become a nurse because it's a good career field.

“Be a nurse! I don't want you to be anything besides a nurse.”

I didn't want to be a nurse but it would be a good job for me because you get to take care of people who are hurt or sick and you get paid a lot.

I always think about being a journalist. For journalist, I love to talk to people about sports and love to communicate. I grew up watching ESPN every day and night with my brother in our bedroom and get to see the journalists talk about sports on TV.

During my Junior year in High school, I always copy and paste words after words out of ESPN and try to act like I'm sportscenter.Then, one of my friends told me don't do that because that's not the good thing to do. So I stopped doing it and switched to analyzing in my own words on Twitter.

So back to the Olympics story, being an Olympian as my dream job wasn't my thing until last year when I was a college freshman at Arizona State University and I still go to that school.

I told my friends that I want to be an Olympian as a Long Jumper/Triple Jumper. They were kind of surprised when I told them. But they didn't doubt me or say that I didn't make it, they just believe that I can do it.

I've started running Track and Field when I was in 7th grade and started jumping when I was in 9th grade. I wasn't the best but I was described as one of the hardest workers on the team and I appreciated that.

I got an offer from Fairleigh Dickinson University for Track but I decided to go to Arizona State. Even though I didn't get an offer from their track team but I decided to try out for them instead. The reason I wanted to go to Arizona State for 3 reasons:

1. I’ve always wanted to go far in college.
2. Good Journalism school
3. I want to get out of the cold weather including snow.

I've had a lot of people motivated me on my high school track team especially this one kid named Rahi Shah, who was a phenomenal distance in High School.

During my Senior year in Indoor Track, I was very upset because I didn't get picked for this meet called “The Last Chance of Meet” which is an event for people who are close to qualify. So he came up and talked to me about Richard Sherman comments on being picked in the late round in the NFL Draft and how he improved in running. He really motivated me and I will never forget that day.

Later that year during Outdoor, I've improved in jumping and had goals in me but I didn't meet it. However I did performed and finished my track career very well and I was really happy about it.

After my high school track career was over, I talked to my jumping coach about challenging myself and trying out for Arizona State's track team.

She told me to go ahead and try out for them.

I've always wanted to jump for a college track team because I love track and field and I want to challenge myself and the others.

When I went to college for my freshman year, I've been training but thought myself that I wasn't ready for college track because the way I was practicing. However I didn't give up or quit so I decided to keep training and let my goals stay alive.

In 2016 or this year, I watched the Olympics by myself and it felt weird watching by yourself but not your friends or family. Then I was watching the world's fastest man Usain Bolt running in his last Olympics ever and of course he dominated everyone in all of his events like he always does.

After watching him dominate his Olympics race, I went to the gym and worked on my endurance and speed. Then set a goal which is represent Team USA in the 2020 Olympics, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan and I really want to go there.

I tell myself “Always believe in yourself and prove the doubters wrong.” I forgot who made this quote but I love it. Whenever I start to go to train or set goals for myself, I think about that quote whenever I'm going to start my day.

A lot of people will try to doubt you or say a lot of crap about you but you have to prove them wrong and make them feel stupid. They're the ones who are challenging you and against you. Of course I have doubters out there and I will always make sure that they're my motivation and prove them wrong.