During practice last Thursday evening, the day before the Charlotte Independent Schools Athletic Association track and field championships, Cannon School phenom Teri Pridgen injured her hip.
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Weâre talking about a teenage girl whose idea of a fun night is being all alone and watching horror movies at 3 oâclock in the morning.
But as she looks back, Pridgen admits that when she began her freshman season on the Cannon School girls track and field team this spring, the one worry she had was going up against the bigger, more seasoned athletes at the high school level.
Since she was 5 years old, Pridgen had competed on the AAU and USATF summer track circuit, where athletes are grouped solely by age. And she excelled, earning medals on state and national levels, almost literally leaving her competition in the dust as a distance runner.