Taking home a state title in anything is huge. Setting a state record? Icing on the cake.
Tuesday morning's session was another in a long line of area athletes that have frequented our studio wanting the type of collage that only we can deliver.
One doesn't have to be a chef to know what good food is... but I ran on that blue oval down at Drake Stadium several times... I know the dedication it takes to get there... the extra effort, the miles put in, the training, the worry, the run-till-you-puke-your-guts-out style that it takes to take home medals. So, I can relate... I KNOW how important that this is to someone like Adrianne.
What I don't know exactly, is what it's like to break the tape in FIRST down there. Dreamt about it many times... but the feeling that Adrianne and her 3 sprint medley teammates felt last spring after she took that baton across the threshold in first... there can be no words. And to look up at the clock then and see that 1:50.45 and KNOW that no quartet in Iowa's Class 1A had EVER went faster... wow... priceless.
The even better news here is that the girls are all back to take another run at it... and I'm guessing that that standard is in jeopardy. Known as "Aja" to the greater Grundy perimeter, Adrianne, who can pick 'em up and lay 'em down like none other in the North Iowa Cedar League, is also very sweet and humble... and I would guess that I'm embarrassing her to no end this morning... but it's the reporter in me and the former trackster looking for an angle for a silly blog, right?
I would be remiss if I didn't give a tip of the cap here to some other state champions. It's my understanding that there's been a bond here developed by Adrianne and some of her rivals at nearby BCLUW. Of course, loyal followers of our blog would know that we had quite a run this summer with having nearly all of the starting lineup of the Class 2A State Champ softball team from Conrad visiting us for senior portraits. It was, in large part, THOSE images that Adrianne saw, that made her say... THAT's where I'm going for senior pictures! It also didn't hurt having gals like Kendra Smith telling Adrianne a bunch of lies about how cool I am. (thanks Kendra!) ;-)
I also stumbled into another Stewart Photography connection when I mentioned to Adrianne and her mother Glenda that I really only knew of one person that lived in their community that rests about 45 minutes away from our location. Long time friend and classmate (both in high school AND college) Vicki (Thompson) Knaack makes her home with husband Gary and their four crazy little boys in Grundy Center. I brought that up in passing and Aja says... "NO WAY!... I babysit for those boys!"
Small world.
Sounds like excellence keeps good company.
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