Going the Distance - Brad Sheets

Brad has become pretty much everything you'd want from a high school runner. I say "has become" because he didn't start as the complete package. Let's just say running probably wasn't exactly his thing when he started four years ago.

I remember Brad doing a lot of walking in workouts, and it seemed he was a long way from actually becoming anything that remotely resembled a runner. But time marches on, and as it did, Brad began to jog, then to run, and now he can race.

Along the way he's graced us with a positive attitude, a photogenic smile, constant chatter (those who've run any distance with him know this well) and now as a senior, the training level, experience and ability to make for himself a season that is altogether different from where he started.

For those who like to think that change can't come, that what we are is what we will be, that teenagers can't achieve, Brad Sheets is living proof that none of those assertions are altogether true. He's a living and breathing example of someone who appeared to be completely out of his element as a 9th grader but is now the living and breathing embodiment of the team and the sport.

That is quite a transformation. That's what Brad has done in his years here. It's quite a story.

I wrote more about Brad last year, to read that, click here.