It's like 60 degrees outside, the likes of which we haven't seen for months, and I'm surrounding by four walls, a telephone and a computer. Bummer. As Queen says, "I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike."
Spring sports are just around the corner. Their high school season is short, but in some ways it's my favorite athletic season of the year. But, of course, cracking sunflower seeds between my teeth while sipping on a fountain drink in my lawn chair is relaxing and fun to me. This is my pastime while watching a baseball game. And who doesn't enjoy strolling about a track meet for a couple hours, craning your neck to see sprinters whiz by or staring dumbfoundedly at a discus while it soars further... and further?
I thought Clearwater discus thrower Luke Bryant was the best story of the spring sports season last year. Now throwing in the University of Arizona track and field program, Bryant broke the state meet record last year with a throw of 205-5. He went on the compete in the Junior Pan-Am Games in Brazil as the top high school discus thrower in the nation.
Wichita Heights sprinter Audacia Moore should be the story this year. She won the 100- and 200-meter dashes in Class 6A last year as a junior. She has big-time written all over her and comes from a family and track and field stars. Look for a bit on her in the upcoming magazine. She'll be hard to miss on the cover.
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