On Saturday, at 3:30 a.m. - three-and-a-half hours before the sun rises - Hailey Sweatman will wake up in the pitch dark of the morning.
By 4:30 a.m., she'll pull up to a deserted James Island Charter High School and catch a bus. Somewhere around 7 a.m., she and a few teammates will arrive in Columbia, where Sweatman will compete in the Taco Bell Classic's pole vault event. Last year she finished sixth in her event at the prestigious track and field meet that features more than 200 schools.
If all goes as planned, Sweatman will be back on James Island by 3:30 p.m. with just enough time to get ready for the biggest social event of her high school career.
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WATCH LIVE
This year's Taco Bell Classic to be held this weekend at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina will once again LIVE streamed online via MileSplit.com. This will be the third straight year which the meet be broadcasted online and featured prominently on a national and regional scale on MileSplit.com and SCRunners.com.
The event, hosted and directed by John Jones and Kevin Shaw at Spring Valley High School, annually draws some of the best competition throughout the Southeast Region states and sometimes even beyond. The 24th edition of the meet expects to be no different with the potential for many new U.S. #1 times and U.S. all-time performances.
