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Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week: Dontrell Young, Oswego, track and field, junior · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week Dontrell Young, Oswego Track
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  Speaker 1: and Field Junior Written by Joshua Welge. This article is
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  Speaker 1: being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett,
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  Speaker 1: named Dontrelle Young School, Oswego Junior Sport, Track and Field.
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  Speaker 1: Why he was selected. Young won the one hundred meter
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  Speaker 1: dash and took second in the two hundred to be
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  Speaker 1: named athlete of the meet at Wheaton Warrenville South's Redgrange Invitational.
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  Speaker 1: He was selected the Athlete of the Week in an
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  Speaker 1: online vote. Other nominees were Yorkville Volleyballs AJ Divito, Plano
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  Speaker 1: Track and Fields Kareinne Costellas and Oswego Soccer's Jordan Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Young's interview with sports editor Joshua Welje. How'd
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  Speaker 1: you feel you ran at the Wheaton Meat Young? I
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  Speaker 1: felt that I ran good due to the fact I
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  Speaker 1: had a cast on during the wheat and track meet,
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  Speaker 1: but there's always room for improvement. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: you're at now at this point of the season, Young,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just getting started with my season. I'm only two
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  Speaker 1: track meets in and I'm feeling great about the season.
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  Speaker 1: Did you run indoor. How many meets have you done, Young, No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't run indoor because I got surgery on my
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  Speaker 1: wrist from an injury during football and currently still recovering
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  Speaker 1: from it. Is there a distance you feel best about now? Young?
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  Speaker 1: I feel that I'm good at all my events I do.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't one that I like better than the other.
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  Speaker 1: I just go out there and win. What's your goals
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  Speaker 1: for outdoor moving forward? What's the training like for next
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  Speaker 1: four weeks? Young? One of my goals for this outdoor
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  Speaker 1: season is to run sub twenty one seconds in the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred meter dash. Do you plan to try to
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  Speaker 1: do the one hundred, two hundred, four hundred in the postseason? Young, No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't plan on running track during the postseason. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be focusing on football and getting ready for the season.
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  Speaker 1: Your coach has pretty high hopes for what you guys
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  Speaker 1: could do team wise. What do you think, Young? I
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  Speaker 1: feel that as a team we could get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great things done. We have a lot of athletes
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  Speaker 1: with great potential and who love to compete.