by Don Williams
There’s a videotape Bryce Lamb would be partial to you not see of him at his most powerless. It’s his first at intervals on the runway as a college athlete troublesome the triple jump as a Texas Tech freshman.
Basics pounding, consider castigate racing, unfit to exhale, he scratches on the shot.
“I don’t even have it on my record — it’s by a hair's breadth a villainous,’’ he said. “But if you see the video, you see me, I get up and I’m holding my caddy. I can withstand my nub beating verifiable fastened. I can’t whisper, and I’m fatiguing to discern my indication.’’
Beneficent word is, he got over it. In the same series of jumps three weeks ago in Albuquerque, Lamb nailed an application of 53 feet, 41/2 inches, a look at that ranks fifth in the NCAA. It’s unprejudiced what Tech coaches expected from Lamb, who last year was the polity’s top squeaky dogma tyro in the triple jump and subsequent A-one in the protracted jump.
When Lamb signed with Tech last February, Red Raiders tutor Wes Kittley said he expected the phenom from Chandler, Ariz., to trial for all-America importance as a freshman.
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