Aldrich Bailey chases professionals, Olympic spot and history - MaxPreps News

Published by DistancePreps.com - The Future Runs Now - Jun 22 2012, 12:41 PM

Spotlight: Aldrich Bailey chases professionals, Olympic spot and history

Recent Timberview (Texas) graduate could be first prep male to make Olympic track team in 36 years.

Thumbnail image of this articles writer: Mitch StephensThursday, June 21, 2012
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The fact that he'll be facing professional athletes in the 2012 Olympic Trials at TrackTown USA would seem intimidating enough. 

Photo by Kirby Lee
Aldrich Bailey stands alone among 
prep 400-meter runners, but he'll
be chasing men at the Olympic
Trials starting Friday.
But recent Mansfield Timberview (Arlington, Texas) graduate and 400-meter phenom Aldrich Bailey appears more concerned with less pressing items heading into Friday's first-round trials race at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon. 

"It's the new time zone that gets me," Bailey said by phone while driving to Eugene. 
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