Jenna
Prandini, an ordinary girl with extraordinary track and field skills,
did some baby-sitting this weekend while also making the most important
decision of her student-athlete career -- she's going to Oregon for
college.
"She's a pretty normal kid," Carlo Prandini said after his daughter from Clovis High chose the Ducks over Stanford and USC.
A
national courting class for the 5-foot-9 senior All-American also
included 2010 NCAA champion Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Miami.
But
Prandini, an honor student with two gold medals (long and triple jumps)
and a silver (100 meters) in last season's state meet, was hooked on
Oregon two weeks ago after visiting the campus at Eugene -- also known
as Track Town, USA.
"I liked everything about it," she said. "It
was definitely the hardest decision I ever had to make. All the options
were so awesome, I knew I really couldn't go wrong.