In the 100 breaststroke in 2004, as Puyallup's golden girl and two-time Olympic champion Megan Quann, she was out-touched at the wall by rival Tara Kirk of Bremerton to finish third by 11-hundredths of a second at the trials, missing the Olympic team.
Four years later, at the trials earlier this month, Jendrick eked out an Olympic berth by one one-hundredth of a second, beating none other than Kirk.
That's the story from a recent article in the Seattle Times on the two local Olympians. When interviewed further, Megan Quann Jendrick admitted that when the training got tough and she would want to ease up, she would remember the narrow loss by 11-hundredths of a second and she would continue to push herself.
How many times do we just plain quit instead of giving it just a little more effort. Maybe in that 'little bit more' we would find the 'win'. Don't stop. Don't quit. Be a Megan. Come back after four years of training hard and win. Just a little more effort is all it might take!!
MTC!
Mark
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