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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Allcorn Breaks His Own Record in Triple Jump

By Harold Smith/
Journal Staff Writer
      Taylor Allcorn is happier than a pig in slop whether it’s on the football field or at the track.
       Moriarty High’s reigning Class 4A state champion in the triple jump broke his own school record with a hop, skip and jump of 45 feet, 6 inches at the Pintos’ track and field invitational on Friday.
       "(In) the part where you drive your leg, the second part (the skip), you need to get your knee up," said Allcorn after his 44-7¾ performance at the 2007 state meet. "Most people go into it just to go long on the first part, and then just do a little on the second."
       The junior also represented Moriarty in the triple at the elite Marilyn Sepulveda Qualifier at the University of New Mexico’s track stadium on Monday. Plagued by three scratches, Allcorn had a subpar performance, for him, and finished fifth with a distance of 44-3½.
       "He was over the (take-off) board just a little (on one of his scratches)," said his older brother, Jordan, a former Pintos soccer player and track and field jumper. "I guarantee you he went 46 feet on that scratch."
       Taylor might not have ever tried the triple’s complicated steps if it wasn’t for his father, Bob Allcorn, Moriarty’s jumps coach and its football coach.
       "At first in my freshman year, my dad pretty much made me try it," Taylor said. "I wasn’t going, ‘I’m going to do the triple jump.’ Then, I did my first jump at my second meet. I didn’t do great, but my dad told me I had some potential.
       "Then, it became more natural for me," he continued. "At first, it was more weird than anything else to do the triple. But then I started enjoying it."
       Though he likes track and field, Taylor’s true love is football. He was named to the New Mexico Coaches Association’s all-state first-team defense as a linebacker, and he was a running back.
       "My main goal, right now, is I want to try to get a scholarship for football," he said. "I want to do that in college. I’ve looked at the University of Northern Colorado. Or I might try to play here (at UNM). But, if not, I would be more than willing to do track in college anywhere I can."
       "But if I had a choice, it’d be football," he added.
       Taylor’s athletic pedigree extends to his mother, Sharon Allcorn, who competed at Bloomfield High, as did his father. She held the school record in the 220-yard dash.
       Taylor’s older sister, Brittany Volk, was a soccer player and standout track and field athlete at Moriarty.
       His sister, Hannah, is a fifth-grader at South Mountain Elementary. The future Pinto expressed an interest in running a leg of the 1,600-meter relay when she gets to high school.
       "He walked when he was 8½ months old," Taylor’s mother said. "He was always moving, and he’s never stopped."
       Harold Smith can be reached by phone at 823-7104 or by e-mail at hsmith@mvtelegraph.com.>   

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