By Johanna Gretschel, FloTrack: Link
When Sydney McLaughlin won the Gatorade National Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year award on Tuesday, for the second consecutive year, the world junior record holder told the press that she won't be returning to her specialty, the 400m hurdles.
Instead, she said, she'll focus on the 100m hurdles and long jump during her freshman year at the University of Kentucky. This is an athlete who made the 2016 Olympic team as a 16-year-old, so needless to say, several Olympian short hurdlers are, well, "shook."
So who didn't tweet? That would be no other than World record holder and US champion Keni Harrison, who trains with Edrick Floreal at the University of Kentucky -- aka, she'll be McLaughlin's training partner next year.
Harrison told FloTrack before the USA Championships that she wants to try the 400m hurdles during the off year in 2018.
