Local track team takes it to the Junior Olympics

This local team is fund raising for their journey to the Junior Olympics this year. 

Justin Peyton Fulton is one of about 75 members of Olympus Track club that are making the trip to the Junior Olympics. He will be racing the 100 meter and 200 meter. It’s not every day that you come across athletes like this. These kids are fast.

“So I get into the blocks, it’s like, nothing on the side of me, it’s just the track, and then, when I’m running, it’s just like I can hear nothing, just my footsteps,” track star, Justin Peyton Fulton said.

For the 100 meter he is 3rd in the nation, and in the 200 meter he is 6th overall.

“I’m trying to get first (place), overall, and I’m trying to get 11.6, that is a national record. And then for the 200m, I’m 6 overall. I’m trying to knock that down to 3rd of 5th (place),” Fulton said. 

The race is just not about him. It is about his team, Olympus track club, the elite sprint club in Lincoln that helps athletes develop from the mind to the body.

“Every single last one of them actually have the same sort of energy and passion for getting better every single day. It doesn’t matter if it’s an 8–year–old or it’s an 18–year–old, every last one of the athletes come out with a energy to actually get better every time they step out of the track,” head coach, Raymonn Adams said. 

“We warm up together. We support each other when we’re running, like when someone else is running and everybody is yelling, screaming, it’s just cheering them on,” Fulton said. 

His teammate Keziah did not make the cut for the Junior Olympics, but says she is still with him every sprint of the journey.

“What I hope is like, that I can be more supportive and not feel like I’m left out because I didn’t make it. Most of the time when you don’t make it, think about your team,” track star, Keziah McIntosh said. 

The fundraisers are helping the team get to Sacramento and for Keziah’s trip for the Junior National Young Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. this summer. She was nominated by her P.E. coach. 

“And now going to regionals and now going to Sacramento, to California, I think that they’ve understood now the benefit of hard work,” Adams said. 

Keziah has a gofundme called YoungLeadersNow for her trip to D.C. 

They also accept donations to help Justin and his team at OlympusTrackClub.com.