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Runner Crawls to Finish to Win Title for Her Ailing Coach

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/sports/02runner.html?_r=1&hpw

SAN FRANCISCO — A top runner who hits the wall. A coach with a cruel illness. A state championship at stake.

Such was the situation last Saturday when Holland Reynolds, a star runner from a small private high school in San Francisco, collapsed at the state cross-country meet and crawled across the finish line to clinch the championship for her team.

Reynolds, 16, a junior, has been a distance runner since she was in third grade. She arrived at San Francisco University High School as a fast freshman in 2008, ended her first season as the team’s top runner and has been the lead runner for the cross-country team ever since.

Her coach, Jim Tracy, 60, arrived at University High School in 1994 and built both the girls’ and boys’ teams into perennial state champions.

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1. Mission accomplished.

My HS cross-country coach (who went on to coach Mary Decker-Slaney) used to say "Winners never quit, and quitters never win."