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Home schooled, but looking to travel Chantelle Dron and Neely Spence

Chantelle Dron These two athletes could change the meaning of ‘cheering for the home team’ at the 2004 Northeast Foot Locker regional. Don Rich tells about two elite runners who aren't on a high school team.   Neely Spence

• Brian Manley HS running coach, football player and ultra marathoner tells his story of the Leadville Trail 100 With 90 miles under my belt, I bathe myself in the moment � running solo along a beautiful mountain trail in the middle of the night, knowing that with each step, the finish line draws nearer � this must be the epitome of bliss for an ultra-runner. I know it is for me. The solitary exertion is cleansing in a spiritual sense, and I embrace the experience, for I never emerge from these mountains after this race, quite the same. Manley gets help from Smoky Hill Aurora CO runners Katelyn and Megan Kaltenbach, Brent Vaughn and Ryan Deak.

• Amy Menlove - good things happen to good people
• Amber Trotter talks
  
  about her past, present and future. How she lost and found the joy of running. Interview (October 2001)
• Julia Pudlin of Pennsylvania - Switches focus from soccer to join nation's running elite.  (October 2000) - Story
• Bobby Lockhart of the Shenandoah Valley - Handley Winchester VA junior stays in the valley in western Virginia until it is national HS running prime time. (September 2000)
• San Lorenzo Valley's Meteoric Rise - How a new coach and a new attitude made national champions of Alejandra Barrientos and the SLV girls from the mountain forests above Santa Cruz CA (September 2000)
• Karen's Diary - All-American thrower Karen Freberg of California keeps a diary of her recruiting season, starting with first telephone contact day July 1. (August 2000)
• Renee Gunning - a series by Don Rich on the development of a distance star. (August 2000)
• Running with the Buffaloes - John Dye reviews Chris Lear's book; an inside view of Adam Goucher, Mark Wetmore, and the University of Colorado cross country program.   What it takes to be good.
• Cassandra Richards - Small school Pennsylvania girl loves the freedom of the long jump - dreams of world record.  (July 2000)
• Tiffany Abney - the coach's daughter is not your average 15-year-old. The fastest US freshman 400 meter hurdler ever tells Don Rich about her season. (July 2000)
• PA stars are united for US - the United Stars track club of Philadelphia places two girls --  Evelyn Dwyer and Tiffany Abney -- on the US junior team by their performances at the Junior Nationals. (July 2000) 
• The Distance Gods - a series by Steve Underwood on the resurgence in HS distance running in the year 2000.  Eight absorbing stories on the leading boys and girls in the US. (June 2000)

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