Intro

Hello and welcome to episode number 13 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the accomplishments of high school and collegiate cross country and track and field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan.

In this episode, we will talk with Sadie Dykstra, a sophomore at Yale High School. Sadie burst onto the high school track and field scene last year, making a statement by earning Division 2 All-State status in the long jump and 100/300-meter hurdles as a freshman. She returned her sophomore year undefeated the entire regular season in all four events, winning four BWAC and regional titles. Ranked as a state favorite, she lived up to the hype: at the 2024 Division 2 state finals on Saturday, June 1, Sadie won the long jump in 18 feet, 0.5 inches, the 300 hurdles in a time of 45 seconds flat, was second in the 100 hurdles in 15.19, and anchored her 4x400 relay to fifth place in 4:06.99, helping Yale earn a second-place team finish with 39 points. Sadie is also an accomplished volleyball and basketball player, playing on the varsity teams since ninth grade and earning multiple accolades in those sports as well, including BWAC All-League and MVP. We’ll hear from Sadie about her training, goals, reflections on the recent state finals, and what she is looking forward to next season and beyond. She has a great mindset and her favorite quote is from Yoda: "Do or Do Not. There is no TRY".

Once again, thank you so much for tuning into today’s Blue Water Running podcast. I can’t wait to feature more cross country and track and field athletes from the Blue Water Area…stay tuned because it might just be YOU!

Until next time, I’ll leave you with this quote by Edwin Moses, an American former hurdler who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record in the event four times.

“In any competitive environment, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them, and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing. Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.”

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