Word: sprinter
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Even at a school of overachievers, Perez stood out. She held the second highest rank in her senior class and as brigade command sergeant major was the highest-ranking minority woman in the history of West Point. She set school records as a sprinter on the track team, led the school's gospel choir, tutored a number of other students and even helped start a dance squad to cheer on the football and basketball teams. Professors wanted her to be in their classes; soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets; underclassmen wanted to absorb a little bit of the drive...
...school of overachievers, Perez's friends and teachers say that she stood out. She held the second-highest rank in her senior class, and, as Brigade Command Sergeant Major, was the highest-ranking minority woman in the history of West Point. She set school records as a sprinter on the track team, led the school's gospel choir, tutored a number of other students and even helped start a dance squad to cheer on the football and basketball teams. Professors wanted her to be in their classes, soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets, underclassmen wanted to catch a little...
CLEARED. Marion Jones, 30, champion sprinter; of using the endurance booster erythropoietin, for which she tested positive in June; in a follow-up, or B, test; by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; in Colorado Springs, Colo. The five-time Olympic medalist, who faced a two-year ban from the sport, said she was "ecstatic." She is expected to resume racing at this week's World Cup in Athens...
...athletes know that better than Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson, one of the fastest men on earth. Johnson holds two individual world records in track and five Olympic gold medals. He was the first sprinter to win both the 200-m and 400-m events in a single Olympic Games. He has also had his share of disappointments. He contracted food poisoning a month before the 1992 Games and didn't make it past the early heats in the event he was favored to win. And just before the 2000 Olympics, he injured his quadriceps and failed to qualify...
...January, the two teams saw their first Ivy competition of the year when they squared off against Cornell and Brown. Neither Harvard team put up much of a fight, although freshman Chidimma Kalu won the 50-meter and 200-meter dashes to begin an impressive season for the young sprinter...