When the high school track season was shut down in March, Tallassee’s Woodrow Dean lost another chance to compete for a likely spot on the medal stand at the state meet. Instead of sitting back and thinking of the lost opportunity, Dean immediately started to put work in to prepare for his next cross country season.

“It was a lot of consistent training over the summer,” Dean said. “With track getting canceled, it gave me more time to focus on cross country. I got to shift over early. I know I wanted to finish out the track season but it did help.”

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.