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The best races are often somewhere between the first and the last runners. It's there that you need to battle against your rivals, the crowd and yourself without the motivation of either victory or defeat. It is often the most overlooked part of the racing score card as well, the place where the points are the hardest to secure and where they matter the most. Haslett Senior Caroline Flynn has excelled for four straight years as a team point scorer, earning placements for her teams, with a consistency of excellence that make her a champion in her own right. This track season is bringing her decorated Vikings distance running career to a close, a career that has seen her in the rarified air of earning eight varsity letters as a Haslett distance runner between both cross country and track and field.
"It's one of the toughest thing to do. We always praise the front runners and don't look at the back runners or the middle of the pack runners. She's consistently in the middle, and she's never had a problem with it but she is always trying to get better." Haslett head coach Mike Homan said of Flynn. "She races the clock, never concerned with the other athletes on the field, on the cross country course or the track for her it's about the clock. That's the best thing you can do as an athlete is race the clock - that one thing you can control."
Flynn's running career started in a familiar place for many of the Vikings runners, the elementary school running path. "I started running in mileage club actually, and that's when I got into it. It was really a way for me to destress and escape the cares of the world. At first I had a performance mentality but then I learned to have fun with it and go hard, but know that my identity is not in that. I'm in my own world. I try to zone out and just lock in."
When asked about what she wanted her legacy as a Haslett Vikings athlete to be Flynn summarized it as such: "I just want people to know that it's important to go after it and use your gifts, but not to depend on it for your identity"
By: Lee Dudasik
The NFL draft can bring many things to a city but for the most part, it's just chaos and excitement. Michigan was lucky enough to have Detroit selected to be the host city for this year's draft. The day before the 1st round is scheduled to occur, some of the top prospects get together and host a unified camp for some of the Special Olympic athletes from schools around the state to come and participate. Haslett was one of the schools invited to this event.
Haslett brought six special Olympics athletes to the event, all of whom were able to meet and interact with top NFL draft prospects such as Caleb Williams, Drake Maye and others. When we spoke with Haslett unified teacher Adam Fisher, about how they received this opportunity he said “We have a great relationship with the Special Olympics of Michigan, and they ended up reaching out to us with this opportunity”. Getting this chance is very unique and will most likely not happen again for a long time. Playing with the best of the best is something that not many people can brag about.
The skills camp was held at Corner Park in downtown Detroit. Many of us know it better as the former site of Tiger Stadium. Tiger stadium was torn down and rebuilt into a public park/baseball field for local teams to use and host special events at. During the event held here athletes would rotate around stations based on various football skills including, tackling, catching, throwing and celebrating. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was also present for the event, spending most of his time interacting with the young athletes and speaking with the coaches. The NFL put everything they had into making sure that this event was something memorable and unique for these athletes.
For one of the prospects at the camp, it was their first time working with special needs students. Alabama’s Dallas Turner said that “It just means a lot, you know, being out here showing a lot of love and support to these kids. I had 2 annual camps, this summer will be my third. My 3rd year having my own little summer camp for the kids and stuff like that. So you know doing stuff for kids is something I'm kind of passionate about. I was once a kid too”.
Across all levels, this event was able to bring out the best of football and set the stage for the NFL draft weekend.
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