Trystan
Brandt is surrounded by his parents, Roger and Dianne Brandt. Behind are
Doane University Coach Ed Fye (left) and Exeter-Milligan Coach Brian Murphy.
Trystan Brandt
likes to get a jump on things, and by jump we mean long jump.
Brandt holds
the school record at Exeter-Milligan for long jump (21’03.5”) and triple jump
(42’08.25”) and brought home silver medals from Burke last year.
On
Wednesday, March 08, 2017 Brandt signed a letter of intent to join the track
and field team at Doane University.
Coach Fye
welcomed him to the team, “He will fit right in with the other kids from
Exeter.”
He noted the
success that Brandt had at the state track meet last year and the interaction
he has shared with Brandt at some of the Doane camps, “When you do things like
that (medal at state) you are doing the right thing. Trystan is a good
character kid which is what we are looking for on our team.”
Fye plans to
have Brandt focus on his jumping, “He might be doing a little bit of
hurdles. We bring kids in and they have their specialty events.
With 150 kids on the team we don’t have to spread them as thin as they do in
high school.”
At
Exeter-Milligan Brandt appreciated that he “was able to try out a bunch of
different events to see what I was good at.”
Exeter-Milligan
head track coach Brian Murphy sees successful for Brandt at Doane, “He will
work hard, he is a coachable athlete and has natural abilities running and
jumping.”
Brandt is
looking forward to the experience, “It will be a challenge going from a small
school to a lot of people and getting used to a strict training regimen.”
Murphy is confident in Brandt’s
success on the playing field and in the classroom. “Trystan has taken advantage of what is offered at
Exeter-Milligan. He has been successful in the classroom. Also, his success has
carried over into a wide variety of extra-curricular activities he has been
involved in here.”
Brandt plans
to major in computer science and environmental science while at Doane.
