7/17/08
By Sapna Pathak

Globe Correspondent / July 17, 2008

Ari Lambie was just a sixth-grader at the time, but her promise as a runner left quite a first impression on Henry Phelan.

"You could see it from the first time she ran. I told her if she made a commitment to running, it was a matter of time - the things she could do with her talent and focus," said Phelan, the girls' track and cross-country coach at the Bromfield School in Harvard.