“I kind of black out as soon as I hit the take off,” Rhys Travis, a junior jumper on the Colorado State University track and field team, said. “Don’t ask me what happens in the air.”
When Travis took to the air at the Mountain West Conference championships, he felt something special.
“I knew as soon as I took off,” Travis said. “I was like, I’m pretty sure I just cleared [the bar]. I came down on the mat, gave it one look to make sure it stayed up, then blacked out a little bit because that was a big jump. That was a lot of things I accomplished right there.”…