"I didn't know how to land, I didn't know how to do a run-through properly, I didn't know how to do a penultimate, the short step to get more height off the board. [With] the coaching here, I don't know if I would have learned all that somewhere else, but Jackson and [coach Ken O'Brien] helped me a great deal," says Koncki of his coaches.
Koncki now holds both the indoor and outdoor long jump records at UMass.