So far, Mattsson has yet to match her personal best of 4.15m, her qualifying height at the IAAF World U20 Championships. Both her and Houston’s season high came at the Reveille Invitational where she jumped 3.76m.
If she and the other pole vaulters follow Coach Tellez’s message of just working one meet at a time, then good things should happen.
“I haven’t been jumping the heights that I jumped earlier, but I’m hoping to get it all timed up and jump higher soon,” Mattsson said. “(I want) to see the things that I’ve worked on this fall actually work when I’m competing.”