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“It’s so warm in Jamaica all the time,” Palmer said. “And it’s so cold here. It’s like summer is coming and it’s spring now and it’s still cold. Like we went to Texas [March 26-28] and it Frank Gogola was so nice. And then we had to come Sports Editor back here and it’s like 30 degrees.” T @FrankGogola The DeKalb winter afforded Palmer DeKalb | Freshman jumper with her first taste of snow. She said her Chennel Palmer didn’t know exact- relatives in the United States brought ly what she had signed up for when her a winter jacket and other winter she joined track clothing before she came to NIU. and field 100 or “That was not a fun experience,” so days ago. Palmer said of the snow. “It was my Palmer came first time seeing snow, and it irrito the United tated me every day.” States from Jamaica in January HHH Chennel Palmer to attend NIU. Freshman jumper While Palmer Palmer said the popular sports in said the competition level is higher, Jamaica, where the lowest the temgetting to know people is tougher perature gets is in the 60s, were crickand the grading in the classroom is et and baseball, but her family wasn’t harder than in Jamaica, the biggest into sports when she was growing up. change for her has been the climate. It took a stroke of luck for her to get
involved in organized sports. That lucky break for Palmer came when she was running around at recess in second grade. The school’s track and field coach saw her and sent her to join the school’s team at 7 years old. “For me [track and field] was just fun,” Palmer said. “But, when I reached high school then I started to take it more serious because it was like competitions.” The personal records came for Palmer when she transitioned from track events to doing the high jump at St. Andrew High School for Girls in Kingston, Jamaica. She cleared 1.7 meters in the high jump at 14 years old and 1.78 meters during her junior year. In February 2014 she set a personal record of 1.8 meters, which would top the NIU record if she can replicate the feat.
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