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Friday, June 12, 2009
Texas high school track star earns team title all by herself....AGAIN (Baltimore Sun)
Posted by ai at 11:27 AMI don't know if we should call Bonnie Richardson of Rochelle, TX, a track star or a rock star. As the sole track team representative for her 14-person graduating class at Rochelle High, she won four individual medals in five events, bringing home the Texas 1A track team trophy single-handedly for the second year in a row. Wow!
Small-town Texas track star Bonnie Richardson repeats as team champion by herself
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The best small high school track team in Texas is once again a freckle-faced girl named Bonnie Richardson.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAT-_CwbpP88WAmGve6zbKczeQ4KBpOVU5TfKgvOawySUeRQYfkMYBN-83TU5mbxKO_hhck8-Shp_XnX9483MYM947vtmbmk0ldTE2LXgXvYSZArcFZIimHbVZKVndNoUi2jNDrcGph_U/s320/bonnie.jpg)
Valedictorian of her 14-student senior class in the tiny farming town of Rochelle, Richardson won the Class A girls team state title by herself for the second consecutive year Saturday by single-handedly beating 56 other schools.
Her reward was a second state championship trophy she won't have to share with anyone — there are no other girls on the Rochelle High School track team.
"It's great. It's over. It's done," Richardson said. "It's nice that I can relax now."
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