Features

It's not all about feet and inches, minutes and seconds.
These pages deal with some of the human side of HS track and field.

Standing features

• Scholar-Athlete
• Donna on the Side - While husband John is on the track getting statistics, Donna Dye roams the sidelines and the grandstand meeting people.   These are her reports.
• Photo Essays - special treatment of dramatic moments at high school track meets. If a picture is worth a thousand words, these pages are worth millions.
• DyeStat Guide to the Recruiting Game - ins and outs of choosing a college and getting a scholarship
• Question of the Week Summary - results of the weekly question on the DyeStat Front Page.

Spot Features

• Amber Trotter talks
  
  about her past, present and future. How she lost and found the joy of running. Interview
• 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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