Running to Glory: An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream - Brossura

Sam McManis

 
9781493057801: Running to Glory: An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream

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The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They’re from low income families, many of whom are migrant workers. With little time to devote to their passion, they give everything they have to their quest for the Washington State High School Cross Country Championship.

Running to Glory is a celebration of grit, perseverance, and the American Dream. It follows the cross country team from Eisenhower High in Yakima, Washington, through a tumultuous and challenging season with excitement, suspense and pathos. Despite enormous economic disadvantages, the Eisenhower runners compete with affluent schools in the Seattle-Tacoma area, where parent involvement is strong and funds are readily available.

Their coach Phil English knows how his runners feel. He grew up poor in rural Ireland in the 1960s during The Troubles and emigrated to the U.S. for a college track scholarship. Over 37 years coaching in Yakima, Coach English won 11 state titles, and sent more than 100 kids to college with scholarships for running.

Author Sam McManis crafts a compelling narrative, which follows the team from summer workouts in the blistering sun to the state championship meet in the bitter cold. Readers will discover how these young men and women overcome their environment or succumb to it―on the course and in the classroom.

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Sam McManis has worked as a staff writer and columnist for California’s leading newspapers (the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee) for over three decades. Until May 2016, he was a lifestyle columnist and feature writer for the Sacramento Bee. His stories have been published in The New York Times and TheWall Street Journal. He has received numerous national journalism awards and has covered two Olympic Games, World Series, NBA Championship series and Super Bowls. In 2016, he received a “Best in the West” award for arts and entertainment writing and was named California’s “in-state” journalist of the year. He also teaches English and composition at Central Washington University. McManis has run 17 marathons— including the prestigious Boston Marathon twice – and completed 7 ultramarathons and countless races of shorter distances.

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9781493041527: Running to Glory: An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, andChasing the American Dream

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ISBN 10:  1493041525 ISBN 13:  9781493041527
Casa editrice: Lyons Press, 2019
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