The Initiation

• Jesse started facing more problems right out of High School one was deciding to run college or not.


• Jesse was already married and needed to support his family, so he turned down a bunch of scholar ship offers.


• Jesse's coached finally convinced him to run college after getting his dad a full time job at Ohio State University, where Jesse would be running.


• Jesse also began to face segregation and prejudice in and outside the school. He wasn't even allowed to stay on campus because he was black.


• Physical injury was also something Jesse had to overcome before one meet he had a bad injury that he was treated before half an hour prior to his race and still did great in his events.