Trayvon Bromell

thumb|Trayvon Bromell in 2016 Trayvon Jaquez Bromell (born July 10, 1995) is an American professional track and field athlete specializing in sprinting events. He won bronze medals in the 100 meters at the 2015 and 2022 World Championships. Bromell was the 2016 World indoor 60 meters champion, and competed for the United States at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He was the first junior to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters with a time of 9.97 seconds, the former junior world record. Quotes Without God, without faith, I wouldn't be able to run track, That is what has helped me to get to this point. I've had struggles, not just in track, but in life. Now, I want use the position I'm in to show others that you can achieve anything. I'm not selfish, This was the dream, to be in the Olympics. I've already got everything I wanted. There are no worries. There's no pressure. Everything else is extra. I can just go and compete and live it out. If I win, then it was meant to happen. It was part of God's plan. I'm not really looking to be an entertainer or a celebrity, I keep a low profile. I pay all of my bills. I'm thankful for everything. More than anything, I want to be a symbol, someone who can help change lives. Track Star Trayvon Bromell: 'Without God, I Wouldn't Be Able to Run', 08/12/2016 I had surgery on my left and right knees from breaking those. I injured my left hip. I had a right forearm fracture as well. So left knee left hip. Right knee, right forearm. Then the Achilles bone spur I had back in 2016 lingered on through 2017 with getting the bone spur removed and then getting the tendon cleaned up itself. So two surgeries on that. Growing up on the south side of St. Petersburg, Florida, everything is hard times. Personally, I’ve dealt with everything that anyone that comes from the south side or a bad neighborhood could possibly go through. [But] when the injuries came, it was something I really had never experienced before. With the three injuries back-to-back that I had with the knees and my hip, it seemed like I was able to recover pretty quickly even without the financial resources that were necessary for rehab. A lot of people don’t know that we actually didn’t have the money to do rehab. Once the surgery was done, we took a loan from the bank and had to make these payments, but there was no physical therapy. It was literally just my mama and me. Having her as the backbone to carry me through that made it easier to deal with. When it came to the situation with the bone spurs, it felt like it came out of nowhere. This was something that was way out of my reach of knowledge. I didn’t know how to deal with it, so that’s why it was so hard for me to bounce back. I remember LeBron James once said he spends over a million dollars on therapy a year. So if arguably the greatest basketball player of all time is saying that he’s spending roughly that amount or even more, I couldn’t be too upset about spending the money on something that I want to continuously do. When I was a child, I was around a lot of gang violence. To this day, I’m constantly looking over my shoulder. If someone’s in the car with me when I’m driving they always ask, “Tray, why do you look around so much?” It’s honestly just the paranoia. I’m always thinking that there’s somebody who wants to try and take a life. Those types of things tend to live with you. It doesn’t just go away. There’s no amount of therapy or anything you can do. From a psychological standpoint, all it takes is one trigger to make everything come back. I live a very structured and routine-oriented lifestyle, and that’s what helps me deal with my past. Against All Odds: Trayvon Bromell on life after worlds, police brutality, overcoming trauma, November 22 2022 I’m going to voice it more and have more of an answer for the world to understand this new reframed Trayvon. For me, this force is bigger than just running fast. So for me to answer that question of where am I, how do I feel, when are we going to see the 9-second Trayvon? I can’t give you the answer because my mind is solely tied to one thing and that’s inspiring. For me these years have been a big work for me on my spirituality. I know everyone in the world may not be religious or may not believe in the same religion that I do. But for me, I’ve gotten closer to the God I believe in and Christianity and a lot of things have been brought to my attention. I can honestly admit that I got lost in the attention, I got lost in the reality of things, I got off track of my purpose. And now I feel like I’ll reclaim that responsibility of why Trayvon Bromell is who he is. And it’s not to be just this fast guy or to chase after the title of being the world’s fastest man. It’s to be an inspiration to the generation that’s coming up after us, to give hope to a lot of people that have heard ‘no’ in their life, that have never been able to achieve things because of the assumptions and the judgment of others. I’m representing something bigger than just a time. And with that being said, I think whenever you see it, don’t just see the time. See the beauty behind the collateral intake of everything that’s been through this vessel. I think that’s the most important thing that I’ve seen, that a lot of people need to see rather than 9 seconds. As far as just since 2016, that has definitely been an uphill battle, You know, one day you think everything’s fine and the next day you could be sitting at the edge wondering where life is going to take you. Just dealing with 2016, it was a big year, obviously, for me. I had an injury, came back and equaled my PB and was looked at as one of the favorites to go and do some great things in the 2016 Olympics—as far as being one to take a medal, but some even some would say go out and attempt to win. To kind of see that dream go down the way it did, it kinda hurt me. It hurt me a bit. It was very hard just trying to stay motivated and watching everything and seeing track go by, It was definitely a dark time where I was just thinking, ‘Maybe this is just not my life anymore, maybe it’s done. Maybe I had what I had, there is no way of coming back from this.’” But Ford “and the staff at Baylor, they’re like family, So they kept me up to be able to still wake up and come out and do what we needed to do to get this thing moving. In 2008 I broke my right knee, in 2009 I broke my left knee. In 2010 I broke my hip in the middle of a track meet. I was just coming out of the blocks and my hip just broke. It wasn’t even a train hit my car or I fell off something. I came out of my drive phase and my hip just broke. If the foot didn’t start hurting that could have probably been like a 10.2, which still would have been an eye-opener to a lot of people, obviously, from not being able to race in so many years. That was actually the last meet I had under Coach Ford. We talked and I just felt like I needed to go somewhere and just get a new beginning, get different resources. I love Baylor to death and they did all they could. I felt like if I had to ask them for more, I would be selfish. It was a blessing, you know, they definitely gave me the best years of my college career and loved me like no other, because obviously I’m from Florida, I left my mom and my family, I came to Texas where I knew nobody and gained a family. So I definitely appreciate them. I told him about my life, I told him why this is so important to me. It’s bigger than me and there’s something greater in this story that needs to be told. And I think he could tell he wasn’t just getting a kid that was going to be a waste of his time. Even if the world told him that I was, I think he sees something different, and it’s definitely still a work in progress. I’ve always my whole life had to work more and harder than everyone else, because I’m not the biggest guy, I’m not the tallest guy. [5-8¾/157 {1.75/71}] So I’ve always had to work twice as hard as anybody else. Trayvon Bromell’s Long Road Back, July 17 2020 External links Category:1995 births Category:Track and field athletes Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from the United States Category:African Americans Category:People from Florida