JUMP TEXAS MAGAZINE

MARQUISE "all-2-da" GOODWIN

WACO — Who said the GOOD guy finishes last? Definitely not Jump Texas, and especially not when the good guy has a three-year history of oustanding jumps and his first name is Marquise; he's assured a 'GOOD-WIN,' or in the case of the University Interscholastic League Regioin II-5A track and field championships, maybe two. So, as is often said in the lone star state, 'It's all-2-da good.'

Across the state of Texas and throughout the nation (and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where, last summer, he won the Caribbean Scholastic Invitational meet sponsored by the National Scholastic Sports Foundation), Marquise lived up to the royalty of his calling and, true to the team number and mascot name imprinted on the front of his maroon warm-up jersey (Rowlett Eagles, #2), flew out of the sandpit at Hart-Patterson athletics complex with double crowns — one in the triple jump (49-8.75) and one in the long jump (24-4.75).

Goodwin currently leads all Texans with the No. 1 outdoors long and triple jumps, and on the national scene, under all-conditions, Goodwin ranks No. 7 in the long jump and No. 5 in the triple jump.