John Paul II (Plano, TX), McKinney, TX, c/o 2025
AthleticNET Bio
Samantha Ennin didn’t like to run when she was younger. She preferred basketball and only ran because her parents made her do it.
“I kind of hated track because I hated running and my parents made me do it to stay in shape and because I was kind of fast,” she says.
It wasn’t until her freshman year that her coach, Jeff Jackson told her she needed to try the jumps and “just do them for fun.”
She progressed phenomenally in her first year. She went from jumping 14-05.5 on March 17 to winning the TAPPS State Championships with an 18-03.25 on May 7. In the triple jump, she went from 30-11 to 37-10.25 to claim another state championship.
At one of those meets, Kenny Roseman was there. Roseman competed for Trinity Christian(Cedar Hill, TX) and still holds the TAPPS 4A State record of 48-07.5 which he set on May 8, 2009. He went on to compete at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and now runs J.U.M.P Smart Texas which has produced NCAA Champion and Collegiate Record Holder, Jasmine Moore who signed with Puma after finishing her career at UF this past year.
“Coach Kenny was at one of the meets that I jumped pretty well. He asked me to start training with him and since then I’ve been practicing with him and doing meets with him. I’ve just gotten a lot better.”
Before that time, “Sam” as she is called didn’t know what she was doing.
“I had no idea what I was doing. I kind of just did random stuff, trying to do what worked for a while. That took me pretty far, but it was really not until I started training with Coach Kenny that I learned technique, how to do it and found a deep love for the sport. I started to understand what goes into it and how to do better on my own and stuff like that. That’s when I really became close with the sport and I knew what I was doing.“
She continued to play basketball at shooting guard. She was quick and athletic and was a defensive juggernaut. As she has gotten better in track and field, her aspirations in basketball have tapered. This upcoming year, she’s decided not to play.
With the help of Coach Roseman, she improved significantly in both her jumps and added indoor competitions this past season. On December 11, she set personal bests of 19-02.25 for the long jump and 40-00.75 for the triple jump. She then competed at Nike Indoor Nationals where she finished 23rd in the long jump (17-07) and …
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