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Herriman High Graduate Talks About Competing in 2022 Olympics
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She was a star athlete at Herriman High School with 16 state titles in track and field. Kaysha Love was also named the Gatorade Athlete of the Year her senior year at Herriman High. Now, her drive, tenacity, work ethic and natural ability has Kaysha going for a gold medal in bobsled at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
On this episode of the Supercast, Kaysha Love joins us from the Olympic Village in Beijing, China to talk about how her experiences at Herriman High School, along with a fierce, competitive nature prepared her for competing on the world stage. It is an inspiring conversation with Kaysha that you don’t want to miss.
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Anthony Godfrey:
Welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. She was a star athlete at Herriman High School with 16 state titles in track and field. Kaysha Love was also named the Gatorade athlete of the year her senior year at Herriman High. Now her drive, tenacity, work ethic and natural ability have Kaysha going for a gold medal in bobsled at the 2022 Winter Olympics. On this episode of the Supercast, Kaysha Love joins us virtually from the Olympic Village in Beijing, China. She talks to us about how her experiences at Herriman High School, along with a fierce competitive nature, prepared her for competing on the world stage. It is an inspiring conversation with Kaysha that you don't want to miss.
We are excited to have Kaysha Love on the Supercast today, an Olympic athlete and a graduate of Herriman High School. Kaysha, thanks for joining us.
Kaysha Love:
Absolutely. Thank you. It's an honor to be even on your guys' podcast. I'm so excited to take you guys along on my journey here in Beijing.
Anthony Godfrey:
And you are in Beijing, that's pretty incredible. And you are hours away from being part of Opening Ceremonies. How does that feel?
Kaysha Love:
It's so surreal. I will say I've been out here for about a week now and like, up to this point, everything kind of just felt unreal. Like, it didn't really hit me that we were at the Olympics and yesterday I actually got my first experience to have an unofficial training. I got my first training runs on the Olympic track and that's when it finally hit me. And then this morning when I woke up, I just realized like, today's the day, it's Opening Ceremony day. This is a day I've been waiting for for so long. And it's just like one of the many steps, and one of the things that has just been in my goals and in my prayers and to actually finally have the day be here is just, it's such an exciting feeling. And then on top of it, in LA we had team processing where we were able to try on our gear and it kind of gave us a little taste of what the Opening ceremonies was. So trying on the gear there was just so exciting. So I'm very excited to be in Opening Ceremonies and wear that beautiful fit.
Anthony Godfrey:
That's exciting. And you get to keep it?
Kaysha Love:
Yeah, we get to keep it. Yeah.
Anthony Godfrey:
One of your many souvenirs. That's pretty awesome. So tell me, what have they talked to you about leading up to Opening Ceremonies? What kind of instructions have you received about that?
Kaysha Love:
So, I mean, there's definitely lots of different things that I think that other Olympic games didn't have to necessarily deal with, with the exception of the 2020 games. There's lots of COVID protocols that we have to follow. We're constantly getting PCR tested. That's an everyday daily COVID test that we're all required to do. And then with Opening Ceremonies, we’re required to take an additional COVID test before and after leaving all of our separate Olympic Villages. And then getting there, they've also kind of broke down little sections of like, ‘Hey, we have like snack things here. It's gonna be a long day.’ But they're just really emphasiz