The Sky is the Limit- Corey Crawford Jumps 25.5 ft. for Indian Hills

If you are a fan of great moments in sports, delicious pizza, Indian Hills High School or Oakland, NJ, here’s a story you might enjoy…

How would you feel as a high school athlete if the only person in the country that was stronger, better, & faster (for now) was Olympic superstar, Carl Lewis?…  Exactly! Pretty damn good about yourself and ready to take on the world!

Corey Crawford, Indian Hills High School track & field phenom soared 25 & 1/2 feet in the long jump last Friday to earn the number 2 spot in the state and the number 2 spot in the nation for the best of all time. As a competitor, your natural instinct is to be happy at first and enjoy the moment, but the inevitable curiosity will always kick in…  who is number one?  I’d have to think that for a nice suburban kid from Oakland, NJ, the next thought would be… One of my idols?! Carl Lewis?!  This is awesome!  It’s like a basketball player finding out that Michael Jordan is the only one with better stats.  (for now)    Kudos and congrats to Corey!  Onwards and upwards.  Best wishes with your career.

Special thanks to my good friend, Vincent Velasquez, for bringing this story to my attention and  for sharing his video interview.  (also for the title prefix) Vincent travels the state every week to cover, re-cap and produce video productions of  major sporting events for the Star Ledger.  Velasquez has a cool tradition of finding a local pizza joint near every shoot that he works on.  His latest stop on “the quest for the best slice in NJ” was at Oakland Pizza- one of my all time favs’.    He had a “balsamic, roasted red pepper slice” that was “very good.”  I’ll join you on that quest anytime Vincent.   -mp