The history maker eyed the teens at the starting line on the clay-colored track.
“It’s about moving forward. Keep your head down and get your knee up to your chest when you push off. Move forward. Go that way,” Olympian Melissa Jefferson-Wooden told a group Oct. 4 in the fourth annual Youth Track and Field Development Clinic at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium. “A lot of races are won from the start. Get off clean and move forward.”
Jefferson-Wooden, 24, has been moving fast-forward since she was a child growing up in the rural Dunbar community of Georgetown County.
