BY JD PELEGRINO
Malik Metivier refuses to jump before a race. He just won’t do it. And the Drake University sophomore likes to jump. He runs 400 hurdles primarily, but also the 110 hurdles and is on the 4×4 team. He’s that rare combination of being fast as a leaper. But if he jumps before a race for warm-ups, it’s like he has lead in his feet. He claims that every time throughout his career he has jumped before his events, he has done a terrible job.
“I can’t describe for the life of me why that happens, but that’s the biggest ‘no’ I could ever have.