St. Cloud Orthopedics Feature: New to High Jump, SJU’s McDowell Already No Stranger to Success

By: Frank Rajkowski, SJU Writer/Video Producer COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Prior to this past January, Jackson McDowell had never competed in the high jump before. In fact, the Saint John’s University junior had never even gone out for track and field. The Centennial, Colo. native had been playing baseball since he was four years old – including through his first two seasons at SJU. But he was looking for a change, and after returning from a semester studying abroad in Greece last fall, he was convinced to give track and field a try at the start of this semester. “I wasn’t…