HS Runner Crawls to Finish to Win Title for Her Ailing Coach
San Francisco high schooler Holland Reynolds showed unbelievable determination after collapsing just two yards from the finish line during a recent state meet. As a race official rushes to her side, she rejects any help, knowing that if she is touched she is automatically disqualified. Instead, she drags herself across the finish line. Because she did, her team won the state championship.
She l More..ater dedicated the race to her coach who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. The finish begins around 1:12:
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.
Reynolds said Tracy was the best coach she had ever had. “He always tells the truth,” she said. “If you ask him, ‘Well, how do you think I did today?’ he’ll tell you, ‘You had a bad race,’ ” she said. “It’s because of his honesty that when you receive a compliment from him, you know you’ve done really well, and it makes all the runners want to strive to please him.”
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San Francisco high schooler Holland Reynolds showed unbelievable determination after collapsing just two yards from the finish line during a recent state meet. As a race official rushes to her side, she rejects any help, knowing that if she is touched she is automatically disqualified. Instead, she drags herself across the finish line. Because she did, her team won the state championship.
She l More..ater dedicated the race to her coach who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. The finish begins around 1:12:
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.
Reynolds said Tracy was the best coach she had ever had. “He always tells the truth,” she said. “If you ask him, ‘Well, how do you think I did today?’ he’ll tell you, ‘You had a bad race,’ ” she said. “It’s because of his honesty that when you receive a compliment from him, you know you’ve done really well, and it makes all the runners want to strive to please him.”
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