The Hidden National Racing Champion

I transferred to this high school as a sports recruit.

I wore a cheap tracksuit and signed up for the 100-meter dash at the school track meet.

The rich kids on the varsity team mocked me openly for my thrift-store clothes.

They claimed I only got in by pulling strings.

The whole class joined in the ridicule.

Only Lennox Hunt, the top student in our grade, stepped in to shut them down.

Nobody knew I was actually a professional racer and a two-time national junior champion.

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