Success requires hard work

In his sophomore year, Jordan Brown joined track for football, “to get faster and become more agile,” he said. “But I later found my love for the sport through the coaches and the events I’m a part of.”

He’s been invited to weekend invitation only meets and his goal is to go past Sectionals this year and hopefully qualify for Division. “My primary events are shot put and discus. I also run the 100 from time to time,” he said. “My favorite event so far has been the discus event because I feel that’s where I have the most talent and I’m the most comfortable doing it.

“My most memorable meet had to have been my very first meet at Vacaville my sophomore year. It was the first ever track meet I attended and I got to learn so much from all the upperclassmen and watching them perform. Since then, I have loved the sport and it has become a key aspect of my life,” he said. While he has not broken any records yet, he hopes to do so before he graduates in 2024.

While he enjoys track, he’s far from being a one-sport athlete. “I participate in Varsity Football, and I did do wrestling for a bit,” Brown said. Football is his main focus, although he wouldn’t turn down a scholarship in Track & Field if he earned one. “I hope to attend U.C. Davis for their medical program because I’m interested in becoming a nurse or doctor.”

“Some advice I’d give to someone contemplating joining a sport is to just go ahead and join. There is nothing bad that could happen from trying to experience new things and I encourage it. If you don’t end up liking it, then you could leave knowing that you went ahead and tried the sport. That goes for anything in life, really.”

Following his own advice, Brown likes to try new things beyond sports. “I am involved in a Sustainable Solano internship with Armijo,” he said. “It is a paid internship that plans to spread healthier habits throughout Solano County.” He is currently the Webmaster for the website the organization is making and he is in charge of displaying all of the content produced for the internship.”

If he could change one thing about Armijo, it would be the culture. “I want other schools to view us as an equal in academics and in sports,” he said. “I would also add more throwing events to track and field.”

He also enjoys hanging out with friends and otherwise trying to engage with the community, as in helping people in need. “Another hobby of mine is making my own business in car detailing,” Brown said. “What I want to do after I graduate is become a successful addition to the medical field and become a well-known doctor.”

He shares his passion for football with his younger brother Justin, a freshman at Armijo. He also has a younger sister, Jaycee, who is a soccer player as well as a gymnast. “A major role model of mine is my mother,” he said. “I say this because she has always been there for me through thick and thin. Anytime times got tough, she continued to push forward and I thank her so much for the position I am in today.”