Mack’s event in Track and Field was?

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Mack was Coach’s personal discovery. He’d spotted her in the gym one morning, a rising freshman in the summer basketball camp. The sport, she told him, didn’t interest her. Football would have been her pick. In junior high she’d been an unstoppable running back, the first and last girl in Bakerton history to play on the boys’ team. At nineteen she was still fast, despite her size. In stocking feet she was Coach’s height. Her morning weight was two hundred pounds. Had she been a boy, someone would have seen that she was a born thrower: the titanic thighs and shoulders, the instinctual rhythm and grace. Coach let her try all the throws, but her destiny was obvious the instant she held the shot. Of course she’d watched Bruce Jenner win the decathlon. Everybody had. Now the unthinkable had become thinkable and so Mack thought it: That could be me