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Siilats, the NCAA indoor champion a year ago, is a seasoned veteran in elite competitions, having competed in the World Championships for Estonia before transferring to Harvard two years ago. Grant, on other hand, would have never imagined three months ago that she’d be at NCAAs, and World Championships are a distant dream...
...strategy is risky because in order for her to win if she has missed at lower heights, she has to clear a higher height than all the other competitors. Such is exactly what happened when she won at 2001 Indoor NCAAs, when she missed several lower heights but was the only competitor to clear at 1.86 meters...
...Indoor NCAAs, she cleared her third jump at 1.86 meters to win the meet. At last week’s meet, she came close to pulling off a similar feat at 1.83 meters to move up to second place, but to no avail...
Siilats felt going into the meet that the odds were stacked against her winning another NCAA title. She had been unable to practice sufficiently due to her injuries from the indoor season and what she considered a lack of adequate high jump facilities at Harvard...
Siilats’ injuries dated back to the indoor season, where she pulled her glute muscle in her upper hip while stretching just three days before the NCAA meet. Under her coach’s recommendation, she still competed and placed 10th...