Sometimes the right sport just finds the right kid.
For most young aspiring athletes it takes years before trial and error, success and failure, social environments and changing interests combine to bring an athlete’s true competitive passion to the forefront.
For Logan Montgomery it was love at first sight. While most fifth graders are hitting and kicking balls, riding bikes and putting on football pads, Montgomery was picking up heavy objects and seeing how far he could throw them.
Of course, there have been many other sports – he’s played football, basketball, tennis (“pretty much anything sports related I’ve been into at one point”) – but from the moment the Ridgeland High School two-time state champion picked up a shot put and a discus, he knew his athletic path had been chosen.
Lisa Montgomery was headed off to run track and field practice at Chattanooga Valley Middle School and Logan, like most kids, would take the bus after school and join his mom. Walking around the field the youngster picked up a random shot and, in the sport’s lingo, put it. He did the same thing with a discus.