Surrounded by friends, family members, coaches and teammates, Proctor’s Tamiah Washington signed her National Letter of Intent to sign up for Texas Tech Wednesday. Washington will head to Lubbock, Texas to sign up for the track subject workforce future fall.

“It felt actually like a second home to me,” Washington stated of Texas Tech. “The coaches have been pleasant, the athletes by themselves have been good, students were great. It is really a small city, but college alone is truly huge. So it just felt like the whole city was just surrounded by the college or university alone, which felt truly good.”

Washington will sign up for the Crimson Raiders with lots of accolades currently beneath her belt.

Not too long ago, she broke the Section III very long leap file with a distance of 19 toes, 4 inches. At a junior Olympics qualifier in New Jersey above the summer, Washington experienced a distance of 39 toes, 5 inches in the triple soar. That would have been fantastic sufficient for the file in Section III, but currently being that it was not a Section III occasion, it did not depend versus the history. She at present is ranked fourth in the country for long bounce and fifth in the state for triple soar.

Although these position come with pressure, Washington takes advantage of it to gasoline her.

“It’s form of a large amount of pressure getting quantity four since you want to keep relocating up in that rating and you want to preserve carrying out better and just being improved than the upcoming individual,” Washington reported. “But just to be in like the best 10 at all, it really is like a actually massive privilege, and I’m content that all the function I have place in is paying out off.”