Coaches help a local track and field center at Gately Park offer programs for kids at all ages and experience levels.
– A local group of young athletes is making its mark well beyond Chicago. Now, they're giving everyone a reason to track them as they lap the field.
Craig Collins has always had a vision for track and field in Chicago, from coaching at the high school and college levels as a former athlete, to helping Gately Park offer programs for kids of all ages and experience levels. But Collins wanted to take things to the next level. "We ended up taking 14 kids down to nationals in Louisville and 13 came back All-Americans," he said."If you had told me that down the road that would have happened, I would not have thought that at all."
"When I'm training, I always think I want to go to the Olympics, I want to get to the higher levels," said K'Saundra Frison, 11, a long jump 4x400 champion.
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