A young female student athlete and member of a dominant New York City high school track and field team is vacationing in Jamaica , the land of her birth. A family member with whom she’s staying arranged for her to continue her track training there, by signing her up with one of the premier track clubs in the island.

At the end of her first day of training the teen called me quite excited and almost out of breath as if she had just run a sub-60 for the 400m. After I was able to coax her to relative calmness, she exclaimed: “Coach, guess what? I have found out the secret why Jamaicans are such great sprinters! Full Story »”