Best of the rest

Auburn freshman and Argyle graduate Jessie Johnson knows she really can’t complain when she looks back on her high school career, something to her that already feels like so long ago. After all, she only won three straight gold medals in the pole vault in Class 3A. And if it means anything, she also set the Class 3A record with her mark of 13 feet, 1 inch this year.Still, with Johnson being Johnson, she’s not entirely satisfied. There’s still a lingering feeling as if she should have done more.She wanted the state record of 13-7 and had almost cleared the mark, but she couldn’t keep the bar and the coveted record from hitting the ground.“I literally cannot look at those photos,” Johnson said while laughing over the phone. “They make me so angry.”Johnson is the area’s athlete of the year, an honor well deserved for the dominance displayed in her time at Argyle.After winning the gold medal her sophomore year by a foot, Johnson set out to prove her gold medal wasn’t won cheaply.Year after year, she topped her previous marks at state and won gold each time, with her best mark coming in 2012.“Once you have one experience of it, you definitely want to feel it again, definitely want to relive that moment, definitely want to have that experience again and not be able to be like, ‘Yeah I did it once, but I wasn’t able to finish it off my two other times,’” Johnson said.She said while all of her championships are great, the gold won her senior year sticks out the most, the rewards for wanting to constantly get better.Johnson now has her sights set on winning league and national championships at Auburn in the highly competitive Southeastern Conference   more

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