The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #34 - Olympian High Jumper Jeanelle Scheper

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

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🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, where we meet and have conversations with some of the most inspiring and elite athletes, coaches and sports personalities. Today we have with us on the show, a very talented athlete and an Olympian, Jeanelle Scheper. She competes in High Jump in Track & Field and has represented Saint Lucia at many national and international even including World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. Also, Scheper is just the second athlete from St. Lucia to qualify for the high jump final in the World Championships in Athletics after Levern Spencer.

In this interview with Jeanelle Scheper we will talk about her childhood and when she got into track & field, particularly high jump. We talk about her early days in high school and how was her time at University of South Carolina. We also talks about the challenges she faced and missing 2020 Olympics due to injury. She also discussed her current routine and her plans for the future.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the home stretch with Adrian Durant. And this evening we have another very special guest, Janelle Sheper.
0:19.0	Hi.
0:20.0	How are you doing? How are you doing Janelle?
0:23.0	I'm doing good. Having a pretty good day. Lost to do, but I'm done. That's good. That's good. And welcome back Ashley. Helping me out again today.
0:32.0	Yeah, most welcome.
0:34.0	The home stretch podcast where we interview Olympians and world champions and just overall amazing people.
0:40.0	They tell us our stories, tell us about the obstacles that they've overcome so that we can learn from their stories and their experiences and get some tidbits on how to become successful and how to overcome in life.
0:51.0	So very happy to have you on Janelle just a little bit about your background. Some of your resume. You are a 2015 NCAA champion in the high jump representing the University of South Carolina, my alma mater, Gamecox. Of course.
1:06.0	You're a real Olympian, jumping for St. Lucia. You're also the flag bearer for your country. So that's wonderful. Personal best of what was that in the closing ceremony.
1:17.0	And the closing ceremony. Still pretty cool, pretty amazing. With a personal best of 1.96 in the high jump. What's that in and feed an inches for our late people?
1:28.0	I want to say six five.
1:32.0	Six on five. You hear this people can jump six feet, five inches in the air.
1:38.0	So she can jump over Adrian for sure. Clearly over me and like another foot. I'm not five five. I'm not five five, but you get my point.
1:48.0	2010 Carifted Bros. medalist in the high jump and a long jump. 2011 Common Wealth Youth Silver medalist, your 2012 CAC Junior champion in the high jump.
1:59.0	Oh, you have a lot of wins here and stuff like that. Meadows medals, medals, 2013 Carifted Champion in the high jump and 2013 CAC Games Silver medalist.
2:09.0	So quite a few medals on your resume. And as the folks who have heard the podcast before, if you're winning medals at the Carifted Championship, you're wanting to top up and come in athletes out of the Caribbean. So very big deal.
2:22.0	And so we want to get started on on your story and how you got started in Shrek and Field. The first thing is I saw you were born in Jamaica. Is that correct?
2:32.0	Yes, I was born.
2:35.0	A lot of people are really surprised to find that out.
2:39.0	So my parents were, my dad was at school at the time and my mom was working there. So that's why I was born there.
2:46.0	We left actually only two years after I was born. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that I'm Jamaican. I'm not sure that I have lived there long enough to be able to claim it.
2:56.0	But I was born there. So maybe some of my athletic talent came from just breathing the air.
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