{"id":17031,"date":"2019-10-31T17:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17031"},"modified":"2020-04-24T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:04:00","slug":"ten-most-kate-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/ten-most-kate-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=nov19_flipbook_final&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=46&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nNovember 2019<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">5.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Go Ahead &amp; Jump<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI know I\u2019ll be ready for some\u00a0<strong>big jumps<\/strong>\u00a0in the near future.\u201d<strong>\u2014Kate Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Sofia Voltin<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_5-kate-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"nov19_10Most _5 kate\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_5-kate-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_5-kate-200x278.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_5-kate-251x350.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19_10Most-_5-kate.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>K<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ate Hall<\/strong>\u00a0is unstoppable. At ten, she enjoyed soccer, basketball, and track\u2014on target for an athletic career\u2014when she was diagnosed with\u00a0<strong>Type 1 diabetes<\/strong>. \u201cI was forced to take control of it.\u201d She insisted on giving herself that first insulin shot. Now 22, Hall still leaps over any obstacles in her way. \u201cI broke the [39-year] national high school long-jump record and American Junior record with a jump of\u00a0<strong>22 feet, five inches<\/strong>. This qualified me for the 2016 Olympic Trials\u201d\u2014where she placed tenth. According to the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), Hall currently ranks No. 6 in the U.S. outdoor long jump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">She won All-America honors 8 times in high school, along with over 30 state and New England championships. \u201cI home-schooled and planned my days to my benefit. This flexibility was a game-changer in my career because I could train any time. It prepared me for college as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Hall studied exercise science during her one year at Iowa State and then two years at University of Georgia. At the end of her junior year, her gaze turned to the\u00a0<strong>2019 World Championships<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>2020 Olympics in Tokyo<\/strong>, but her jumps had not improved within the college system. She returned to Maine to train with her high-school coach. \u201cTraining is far more individualized with\u00a0<strong>Chris Pribish<\/strong>. In college programs, I didn\u2019t always feel fully recovered between workouts. They emphasized a lot of heavy lifting, which isn\u2019t best for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWith diabetes, people sometimes need more recovery,\u201d Pribish says. \u201cWe are flexible and adjust workouts if sugar levels are too high or low. Our scientific approach tends to buck some of the common trends used in schools.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In February, Hall wrapped up her first season as a professional athlete with a national title. \u201cA lot of my competition is surprised I\u2019m from Maine. It isn\u2019t a typical place for a track athlete to train because of the cold.\u201d At the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships in New York, she won the long jump with a leap of 21 feet, 4<sup>1\/4<\/sup>\u00a0inches and came in second in the 60-meter dash. Her winnings totaled $10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">But a crushing summer waited ahead. \u201cI didn\u2019t make the 2019 World Championships.\u201d She placed 10th in the qualifying meet with a best jump of 21 feet, 6 inches\u2014missing the final round by one and a half inches. \u201cI was in the best shape of my life. My approach was a little off, so I didn\u2019t hit the takeoff board. If I had, I\u2019d have easily qualified for the World Championships. My goal for over a year was to make it. It was very hard to come up short. But I learned from this. I wasn\u2019t able to pull it together that day, but my body was in the best condition it\u2019s ever been. I know I\u2019ll be ready for some big jumps in the near future. I\u2019m taking this mindset and preparing for the\u00a0<strong>2020 Olympic Trials<\/strong>.\u201d She\u2019ll be competing on\u00a0<strong>June 19 and 20, 2020<\/strong>\u00a0at the University of Oregon. \u201cI\u2019ve jumped there several times, and I\u2019m excited to go back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Hall currently lives in Gray. She works as an assistant coach at St. Joseph\u2019s College and trains with Pribish at\u00a0<strong>Momentum Performance &amp; Wellness Center<\/strong>\u00a0in South Portland. \u201cShe works extremely hard,\u201d Pribish says. \u201cShe ignores outside distractions and focuses on achieving her goals. She holds herself to high standards and refuses to fail. Kate will continue to succeed on and off the track. She\u2019ll win more titles and make Olympic and World teams for years to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic-hopeful Kate Hall leaps over any obstacles in her way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[955,943,120],"tags":[958,539,538,957,956],"class_list":["post-17031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-most-intriguing-mainers","category-personalities","category-the-women-of-maine","tag-2020-olympic-trials","tag-athlete","tag-kate-hall","tag-momentum-performance-wellness-center","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18032,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions\/18032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}