By Toby Hammes
On July 22, Gabrielle Converse didn’t know a single runner in a Manhattan High uniform. That was the day her family moved from Lafayette, Indiana. She would be only days removed from unpacking boxes when she showed up at Warner Park for her first summer workout with the Indians.
Within minutes, the coaches noticed.
The new girl in town, running unfamiliar trails with unfamiliar faces, was suddenly holding pace with Manhattan’s top group. A mile and a half uphill, in Kansas heat, on her very first days.
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