A viral video of track star-in-the-making Brooklyn Anderson who claimed the 100m hurdle 5A state championship, has garnered over 50 million social media views. The reason – her spectacular finish at Thurston, where she lost balance clearing the last hurdle and stumbled, but stayed in the lane with two forward somersaults to reach finish line first on May 31 in 14.93 seconds.
“Nobody’s ever cheered for me that loud before,” she was quoted as saying by Huff Post.
According to NBC, the Oregon high school junior athlete blew away the competition at Eugene’s Track & Field Championship. “The last hurdle she clips and trips before somersaulting through finish line. Thankfully Brooklyn was OK due to her quick thinking and her Gymnastics background. She was also way in the lead earning her first place,” NBC said.
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She told The Oregonian, “All I remember is resorting back to my gymnastics career. I wasn’t sure how far back everybody else was behind me, so I just knew to just keep rolling because I really wanted to finish first.”
On Instagram, she wrote, “Wow, what a memorable season. Year 3 is one for the books. Thank you everybody for the support, and especially thank you to the most amazing heat of girls a girl could finish a race with. You guys are awesome. GO COLTS #jryear #somersault #track #100mhurdles.”
The Oregonian called it “one of the most unique finishes to a race in Hayward Field history.” That must mean something because the iconic University of Oregon’s stadium in Eugene is more than 100 years old and has hosted national championships and Olympic trials, including last year’s qualifiers for the Paris Olympics.
The left-lead leg hurdler was cruising anyway but her somersault finish just added a new way to rolling to the deep.
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