We caught up with Tasmanian junior high jumper Kaitlin Morgan after her second place at last weekend’s Hunter Track Classic. The 17-year-old has jumped 1.83m this season and has six world junior qualifiers to her name.

1. What do you put your consistent form in 2011/12 down to?

This season has been great, I have been so happy to be able to jump 1.80 consistency, as this was one of the goals I set for the season.

I have been working a lot harder in my training sessions, although not just high jump sessions, I think the key is to have variety. At the very beginning of the season I was narrowly missing 1.80 all the time but I feel that this was good, not only because it was the beginning of the season but also because it just made me more determined to jump that much higher and showed me how much I really wanted it too, it was a feeling of being teased and really made me work a lot harder.

2. What was the main experience you gained from last year's World Youth Championships? Is there anything you would do differently for this year's World Juniors?

Last year was my first year of not only travelling overseas but also competing overseas for my country. It is a great experience to have.

Even though my competition didn't go too great you have to try and look at the positives. I realised that even though I wasn't happy with my performance, I still finished 16th in the world for my first international competition and when people were asking me where did I placed they were still amazed and I realised that it wasn't as bad.

If there is anything to learn it's that all athletes no matter how experienced, or how highly ranked you are mistakes are still made. We are all going to fall down many times its the ones at the top that you see and will know they didn't give up but instead they picked themselves back up and keep training harder and believe it was possible, you don't stop until you have reached your dream!

The main thing I discovered personally and that I would do differently is I wanted to make myself train harder and bring out more determination than ever to not repeat World Youth 2011 the next time! You've got to put the good with the bad and look to the future not hold onto the past.

3. Do you have a height that you are targeting this domestic season, and for later in the year at the World Juniors?

I would definitely say that I would love to jump 1.90 and I would love to do so before the new year. Although it would not disappoint me if it doesn't come this year, you have to approach things one step at a time and the next step for me I would say is 1.88. I am always striving for a pb as athletes do.

4. What does an average week of training consist of for you?

Monday and Wednesday: In the Gym doing a weights session
Tuesday and Thursday: At the Domain Athletics Track working on my sprint work or some high jump, some bounds, long and triple jump.
I have Friday's off sometimes I will have a massage.
Saturday is usually my competition day
Sunday is either a rest day or I am up at the track for a technical High Jump session.

5. Are there any athletes in your event or in athletics generally that you have or do look up to as role models?

I respect all athletes, they all have their individual ways of coping with and approaching their goals, dreams and aspirations. However, last year I was able to meet Vanessa Ward, a former High Jumper, whom I had a connection with as a high jumper I have always been one of the shorter competitors as was Vanessa.

Meeting her just made me more confident that its not about height because even though she was not as tall as everyone else she still was able to reach 1.98m. So from that I took that no matter what people tell you whether they tell you, you aren't the right body shape or they say you should be in another event category, it's what you want the most is what you are going to get and only you can make that decision based on how passionate you are and if you believe you can.