HUNTINGTON – Karena Fulks’ personal record in the long jump is 18 feet, 5¾ inches. Her goal is to eclipse that – “over 19 feet,” she said – in Marshall’s outdoor season.
However, you might say Fulks already has made a much longer leap in her college life and track and field career.
After three years on full scholarship at Northern Kentucky, Fulks decided she wanted to finish her college – and track – days at Marshall … without a scholarship.
It was a gamble that paid off for Fulks, of Jackson, Ohio after she wanted to attend Marshall when she started college back in the fall of 2012.