By Joey Jones, Ole Miss Athletics
There were no flashbulbs. No ESPN cameras or reporters. No stadium with thousands of fans cheering on the best young American thrower of this generation.
On this cold day in early February 2016, Raven Saunders was at home doing something she rarely does. She was crying.
Saunders had lost her beloved grandmother days earlier. Her head was spinning with thoughts of her family and not being able to be with them in Charleston, South Carolina. She was in the middle of the indoor track and field season of her sophomore year, just a few months removed from a life-changing move from Southern Illinois University in the small town of Carbondale to the University of Mississippi in even smaller Oxford.
