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DyeStat.com – News – World U20 Champion Emma Sralla Enters Final Texas State Meet on Record-Breaking Trajectory

DyeStat.com - News - World U20 Champion Emma Sralla Enters Final Texas State Meet on Record-Breaking Trajectory

Marcus High Senior’s Progress In The Discus Includes No. 2 All-Time High School Mark (195-10)

By Mary Abl of DyeStat 

Emma Sralla doesn’t take things too seriously. Her personal social media is highlighted with big smiles and thumbs up. 

“I’m universally pretty goofy, a silly person,” she said with a laugh. 

But there are some things she does hold close to her heart – a round metal disc is one of them. 

“The things I do take seriously, it’s kind of life or death with me,” she said. “Things like school and discus training, those areas of my life people have told me I’m really scary and intimidating.”

Sralla, a senior from Marcus High in Flower Mound, Texas, has been a terrorizing force inside the ring as the top prep discus thrower in the country. She heads into the Texas State Track and Field Championships this Saturday, May 13 at the Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, with a US#1 throw of 195 feet, 10 inches. She’s less than three feet from the national high school record of 198-9 set in 2012 by Olympian Shelbi Vaughan of Mansfield Legacy TX. 

“She knows when to flip the switch, and she takes pride in what she’s doing,” Marcus track and field coach Andy Reinberg said. 

At 6-foot-1, Sralla grew up with hoop dreams. 

“I always thought I would be a college basketball player when I was really young,” she said.

Sralla was born into an athletic family. Her mom, Anna, is Swedish and moved to the U.S. to play collegiate golf. Along the way, she met her husband, Scott, in the U.S.

Emma recalls tagging along with her older brother Karl, who threw for the University of North Texas, when he went to train with his coach. She quickly got into the sport of throwing, too. 

“It kind of blossomed into me working harder and building my own throwing career after him,” Sralla said.

Throughout middle school and a part of freshman year, Sralla was pulling double duty logging minutes on the basketball court and participating in track and field – the jumps and throws. It became too much, so Sralla decided to give up basketball to take throwing seriously.  

“It was a really tricky decision to make, but I knew it was the right thing to do. I knew if I wanted to be the best discus thrower I could, I needed to focus on that primarily,” she said. “It was something in the moment. It was really difficult, but after it happened I knew instantly it was the right decision.”

Since then, Sralla has dedicated her time to becoming the…

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