Jett Merrill has made it to the Arizona state track and field championships every year since his freshman season.
The Ironwood Ridge junior is now chasing back-to-back gold in the hurdles, but his journey began long before his first high school race.
“I like to tell people that he was hurdling before he even in the womb,” said his mom, Brittany Merrill, an assistant track coach at Ironwood Ridge and four-time state champion herself. “I was pregnant and I was coaching hurdles at the time.”…