PHOTO GALLERY: Community track team sends 42 runners to national competition
July 5, 2012 | 9:26 p.m. CDT
Blue Thunder Track Club, a community track team in Columbia, was founded in 2005. Since then, its numbers have swelled. This year, the club is sending 42 runners to an AAU national competition.
Members of the Blue Thunder Track Club practice Thursday evening at the Hickman High School track field. The club started out with 7 athletes and has registered 151 this year, 42 of whom are going to nationals.
| Robert Swain
Isabelle Klaas, right, 6, does pushups with her teammates and coaches Thursday evening at Hickman High School track field.
| Robert Swain
Makayla Jones stretches after her work out Thursday evening at the Hickman High School track field.
| Robert Swain
Stephan Appold,7, left, Isabelle Klaas, 6, and Na’Kyra Cravens-Burroughs, 9, do side plank exercises Thursday evening at the Hickman High School track field.
| Robert Swain
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