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Destini Smith takes championship, medals in triple jump, high and triple
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Destini Smith has broken records, won championships and the sky is the limit for one of the most decorated athletes in Pennsylvania High School Track and Field.
This 2025 Souderton Area High School graduate picked up her diploma last month with her gold medals proudly displayed around her neck, a testament of how far she’s come, how high she’s jumped and how fast she’s ready to make her mark as collegiate athlete.
Smith has had a remarkable high school career for long jump, triple jump, and high jump. As a 5-time state champion, 11-time state medalist, 3-time All American and National Champion, she is recognized as a top athlete in the nation and is gearing to take her winning ways to Kansas State University this fall.
But she’s no overnight success. Smith’s storied dominance in track and field started at a very young age, when her family lived in Florida and Georgia. Her family moved to Pennsylvania before her 10th grade year, landing her in suburban Philadelphia.
“I was in first grade. I was running up a grade because I was taller than all the other first graders, so I had to run with the second graders. I was still cooking them in the 100 [meter] and stuff like that. So it was pretty fun. Even though they were older than me, it still felt better than if I was running against my own age,” said Smith, who now stands at 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Smith started her track career as a sprinter, then gradually moved to the jumping events as she got older. By the time of her junior year in high school, Smith locked in on the jumping events.
“I was a sprinter at first, I have long legs, that’s what I was really into. And then ninth grade is when I started high jump, and I kind of hated it, because I was like, ‘they just took me right out of the sprinting as soon as I started high jump,’” Smith said.
Junior year consisted of sprints and jumping, while senior year she pulled back on sprints to focus on her jumping events, dominating in the high, long and triple jumps.
Smith credits her success to technique, her consistent work ethic, and natural ability.
“It was a whole lot of everything. High jump, I’m tall in general, it just kind of felt natural — not going backwards, like over a bar. It didn’t feel natural at all. Actually, I was scared to do it at first, but it just came like, it became second nature to just do high jump,” Smith said.
Smith has only been long jumping and triple jumping for about a year and a half. She won the national championship at Nike Nationals U20 in the Triple Jump at Oregon with a jump of 42 feet 7.5 inches.
To win the Girls 3A PIAAA championship, she cleared 5 feet 7 inches in the high jump and the long jump with a fifth attempt at 19 feet, 11.50 inches.
“When it came to triple and long, honestly, it was a hard transition from going to vertical jumps to horizontal jumps. It was pretty tedious, the training and all that, and the weight training was way different. I was used to plyometrics and all that. So like, just increase my vertical to weight training and trying to lift as heavy as possible,” Smith said.
When jumping during track meets, Smith credits her mental toughness and focus over her reliance on physical abilities.
“It’s a lot of mental, you got to know what you can do, going into long and triple. I know what I can do. And I just know that nobody’s topping me. But when it comes to high jump, you truly don’t know. So you get in your head so much to, like, second guess yourself, and it eventually can affect, what you actually put out on the field that day,” Smith said.
It’s al working for Smith, who broke the state record in triple jump this season.
She also was the Gatorade Player of the Year for Girls Track and Field in Pennsylvania in the 2024-2025 season, and broke every single Souderton school record for all three jumps — records that have been standing for over 40 years.
She did it all while having a 3.97 GPA in the classroom. Her athletic and academic success made her a top recruit for colleges. Smith’s recruitment started to pick up and gain traction at the end of her junior year.
With schools like Indiana, Texas Christian University (TCU), and many more knocking at her door, Smith found a home at Kansas State and will begin her collegiate career as a Wildcat.
“I’m really firm in K-State. Out of all the coaches that reached out to me, I feel like that connection was just that, like an unbeatable connection,” Smith said
With college on the horizon, the training doesn’t stop and Smith’s work ethic is carrying her as she practices with her track team along with training with her designated jumping coach, and does even more training out of the state.
“I know what I want, from myself, and I know what I can do. So it’s like, I might as well put in that same work to show everybody else what I can do … I want to go out there every time and show people that I know what I’m doing,” Smith said.
There to help Smith in her journey is Souderton Area High School Coach Anthony Pace.
Pace has been at the helm for three years, leading the team to their first-ever title win in the 2025 PIAA Class 3A state championship. He understands what type of player and talent he has on his team and is incredibly grateful for the opportunities Smith brings Souderton.
“She’s given so many more opportunities I would have never expected, her putting us on the map. It’s like, OK, we’re traveling to Oregon, we’re traveling to Virginia, we’re traveling to Boston. All these extra things that probably would not happen without an athlete like her,” Pace said.
“She won every single event throughout the entire season, whether it’s dual meets, invites, leagues, districts, states. She finally finished second in the Triple Jump at New Balance nationals, but that was a day and a half after winning the Nike U20 Nationals,” Pace said.
Smith had a veteran presence for the rest of the girls on Souderton’s track team.
“She’s selfless. She cares about everyone else. She’s making other people involved. She’s taken freshmen and sophomores underneath her wing. She’s never shying away from them training with her. Even though, like a lot of her stuff, would be isolated, just with the dedicated training that she would need,” he said.
Through it all, Smith stays humble as she defines greatness.
“It really just depends on, not only the person that’s doing it, but how they act when they’re doing something great,” she said. “I feel like a lot of people just look at it as doing something that nobody else is doing. I feel like it really depends on the attitude they have with that.”
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Scripps Sports announces new broadcast team for Griz football
Scripps Sports today announced a new on-air talent lineup for its TV coverage of Montana Grizzly football this fall. In the booth for the Griz this season will be respected play-by-play announcer Trey Bender, joined by former Montana defensive All-American Jordan Tripp who will serve as analyst. Kyle Hansen will once again report from […]
Scripps Sports today announced a new on-air talent lineup for its TV coverage of Montana Grizzly football this fall.
In the booth for the Griz this season will be respected play-by-play announcer Trey Bender, joined by former Montana defensive All-American Jordan Tripp who will serve as analyst. Kyle Hansen will once again report from the sidelines as well.
The on-air coverage update follows a five-year renewal for the Big Sky Conference and Scripps Sports announced earlier this year, extending their relationship through at least the 2029-30 academic year, and comes as the company’s sports portfolio continues to grow, including with a multi-year media rights extension with the WNBA announced in June.
Bender has called both college and professional sports for more than two decades, primarily on ESPN platforms, the Pac-12 Networks and FOX Sports. He has also called NCAA events in football, basketball, baseball, softball, water polo, soccer, swimming, diving and beach volleyball. Past work includes the NBA Summer League, WNBA contests and Arena Football as well. No stranger to Montana, Bender has called several football games for ESPN in Missoula, most recently the 2019 FCS Playoff win over SE Louisiana and the frigid 2013 playoff game against Costal Carolina.
Tripp was a Grizzly letterman from 2009-13 and former #37 who went on to a four-year NFL career after being and selected by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He was a two-time first team FCS All-American and remains seventh in Montana history in total tackles with 335 as a Grizzly with 29.5 tackles for loss. He also holds the school record for career fumble recoveries with 10 and is second all-time in fumble recoveries with 10. He’s a Missoula native and graduate of Big Sky High School.
Scripps Sports currently airs Big Sky games throughout the league’s footprint, with markets in Montana, Idaho, Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah. This fall, Scripps Sports will televise 13 Big Sky Conference football games and six non-conference games featuring 10 games for the University of Montana. The season will once again culminate with the 124th Brawl of the Wild, which drew nearly 130K viewers across Scripps stations last year.
Additional details about this fall’s Big Sky Conference broadcast coverage will be announced in the near future.
About Scripps Sports: Scripps Sports serves professional and college sports leagues, conferences and teams with local market depth and national broadcast reach. Scripps Sports currently has partnerships with the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), the National Hockey League’s (NHL) 2024 Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, the 2023 Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights, the new Utah Hockey Club, the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA and the NCAA’s Big Sky Conference. Scripps Sports is a division of The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP), a Fortune 1000 American media company.
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ESPN+ will stream 300+ live BIG EAST events annually ESPN and the BIG EAST Conference have announced a new six-year digital media rights agreement, adding hundreds of live BIG EAST events to ESPN’s robust college sports portfolio. A minimum of 75 women’s basketball and 200 Olympic sports events will stream on ESPN+ annually beginning in […]
ESPN and the BIG EAST Conference have announced a new six-year digital media rights agreement, adding hundreds of live BIG EAST events to ESPN’s robust college sports portfolio. A minimum of 75 women’s basketball and 200 Olympic sports events will stream on ESPN+ annually beginning in the 2025-26 academic season. This deal will also include a minimum of 25 non-conference games annually for BIG EAST men’s basketball.
“We’re pleased to welcome the BIG EAST back to ESPN,” said Nick Dawson, ESPN senior vice president, programming & acquisitions. “This agreement returns one of the country’s premier conferences and its tradition of excellence to ESPN platforms. We look forward to this new chapter in our relationship with the BIG EAST.”
“This exciting partnership with ESPN reinforces our commitment to placing BIG EAST teams front and center on the leading digital sports platform,” said BIG EAST Commissioner Val Ackerman. “Streaming on ESPN+ gives all 22 of our sports — especially women’s basketball and Olympic sports — the visibility they’ve earned and the access our fans expect. We look forward to delivering elevated coverage and a streamlined viewing experience to fans and family members who want to follow BIG EAST action across our wide array of sports offerings.”
ESPN’s new direct-to-consumer offering, which is inclusive of ESPN+, is scheduled to launch in early fall.
ESPN and the BIG EAST Conference have a relationship that spans more than three decades. The BIG EAST signed its first national television deal with ESPN in 1980, beginning a partnership that ran through 2013. Since its reconfiguration that year, the BIG EAST has maintained its stature as one of the preeminent conferences in college sports, boasting four national championships in men’s basketball and additional national crowns in women’s basketball, field hockey, men’s soccer, men’s lacrosse and women’s cross country.
Benjamin Freeman of Proskauer represented the BIG EAST in the digital media rights negotiations.
About the BIG EAST
The BIG EAST Conference is an association of 11 nationally prominent colleges and universities that foster healthy athletic competition, community service and the pursuit of excellence in academic environments. The BIG EAST-sponsored athletic programs of our institutions provide national-caliber participation opportunities for more than 3,800 student-athletes on over 200 men’s and women’s teams in 22 sports. Established in 1979 and headquartered in New York City, the BIG EAST’s members are located in eight of the country’s top 36 largest media markets and include Butler University, University of Connecticut, Creighton University, DePaul University, Georgetown University, Marquette University, Providence College, St. John’s University, Seton Hall University, Villanova University and Xavier University. For more information, visit www.bigeast.com.
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Price-Torok tabs Alec Perez as Graduate Assistant – UTSA Athletics
SAN ANTONIO – On Wednesday, head UTSA volleyball coach Carol Price-Torok announced that Alec Perez will join the staff as a Graduate Assistant following three seasons as the Technical Coordinator at Texas. “Alec is the product of UTSA alumni and has great pride for our school and program”, said Price-Torok. “The experiences he had […]
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Badgers volleyball players hit the beach at Wisconsin state park
When people think about relaxing on a warm, sandy beach, Wisconsin doesn’t always come to mind right away. But members of the Badgers volleyball team got to see first hand what the state’s waterfront can offer. In a video for Travel Wisconsin, Charlie Fuerbringer, Maile Chan and Morgan Van Wie hit the beach at Kohler-Andrae […]
When people think about relaxing on a warm, sandy beach, Wisconsin doesn’t always come to mind right away.
But members of the Badgers volleyball team got to see first hand what the state’s waterfront can offer.
In a video for Travel Wisconsin, Charlie Fuerbringer, Maile Chan and Morgan Van Wie hit the beach at Kohler-Andrae State Park near Sheboygan to see for themselves.
The combination of the seagulls, sand and recent heatwave can make the shores of Lake Michigan feel a bit more like the ocean, especially with the prominent surfing activity in that area.
Chan and Fuerbringer are both from the west coast, so they had less exposure to what Wisconsin’s lakefronts can offer than Van Wie, who is a native of Waukesha.
They even got a little bit of volleying in on the sand while they were out there.
All three rising sophomore are looking to step into bigger roles on the court in 2025, but off the court, their chemistry looks to be strong.
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