Future Stars: Daisy Luna (Hoover High School)


Daisy Luna, Hoover High School

On January 20th, Daisy Luna from Bumpus Middle School won the 400m at the Birmingham Metro Middle School Gold Championship in a time of 58.62. Nine days later, the eighth-grader is called up to compete at Last Chance for Hoover High School and she delivered a huge PR running 56.98. Coach Christopher Schmitt has a really special talent on his team for the next 4.5 years and he can't say enough about her. He said, "I am extremely excited about Daisy's performance [on Saturday]. I feel that Daisy and the rest of our sprint girls are really going to benefit from each other. Practices and meets are going to be very exciting, and I look forward to the State Meet and the upcoming years with our teams." This upcoming Saturday, Daisy will compete at the State Meet looking for her first-ever State Championship.

Daisy's 58.62 400m is better than 90% of the times by D1 athletes when they were freshmen in high school.