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

by Sam McManis

Overview

Running to Glory, by veteran journalist Sam McManis, follows the cross country team from Eisenhower High in Yakima, Washington, through a tumultuous and challenging season with excitement, suspense and pathos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493041527
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/26/2019
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sam McManis is a former columnist and feature writer for the Sacramento Bee. He is a four-time winner of the Society of Features Journalism awards and three-time Best of the West honoree. He also has been a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times. His profiles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He is the author of a book of travel essays, Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a State of Wonder and Weirdness. He lives in Washington state.

Table of Contents

Starting Line 1

Home Stretch 9

Preseason 21

Camp Ghormley 23

Fonzi 43

Erica 59

Jonas 75

Mister 89

Season 109

Time Trial 111

Smoke and Ash Creek 116

Racing and La Raza 128

Fort Steilacoom Invitational 146

The Mormons and the Hippies 155

Bellevue and Beyond 164

From Heavy to Healthy 178

Sunfair Invitational 190

Richland Invitational 201

League Championships 213

Postseason 225

Districts 227

State 240

Afterword 259

Acknowledgments 261

About the Author 263