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Posted on: Saturday, June 6, 2009

Preps: Texas track star wins second team title alone


PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas — The best small high school track team in Texas is once again a freckle-faced girl named Bonnie Richardson.

Richardson, the valedictorian of her 59-student class in the tiny farming town of Rochelle, won the Class A team title by herself today for the second consecutive year at the state track and field championships.

She won the gold in the long jump and high jump, took silver in the discus and bronze in the 200 meters. She also finished fourth in the 100 meters.

There are no other girls on the Rochelle High School track team. Richardson is the only girl in state history to win a team title on her own.