DARE TO DREAM BIG!: From Last Place Finish to First Place in Our Hearts!
Imagine This: It’s the Ohio Division III girls state meet and you’re competing for the championship in the 3200-meter race after winning the 1600 earlier in the day. With about 20 meters to go, another runner collapses on the track in front of you. What do you do?
Who: You’re Meghan Vogel, a senior at West Liberty Salem High School in West Liberty, Ohio.
What: The Division III 3200-meter Finals
Where: Columbus, Ohio
When: Saturday, June 2, 2012
You’re a junior runner, seeded seventh in the 3200, and you have only one hour to prepare for the grueling 3200 after winning the 1600 an hour earlier. Three laps into the race, you begin falling off the pace and you know it’s now a matter of just finishing the race. You’ve never been last, but you’re content to just finish the race.
Then with about 20 meters to go, Arlington High sophomore Arden McMath collapses on the track in front of you. You not only help Arden to her feet, you also help carry her across the finish line—making sure that she crosses the finish line in front of you.
You and Arden have never met before, but you help her out because you believe it’s the right thing to do.
Thank you, Meghan, for proving that it’s true that “It’s not whether you win or lose but rather how you run the race.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Something to Think about: What do you think you would have done if you had been in Meghan’s place?
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