Track and field | Butch Reynolds: Positive messenger

View Slideshow Request to buy this photoSitting in the stands to watch his stepdaughter, Jenai, compete in a high school track meet, Butch Reynolds feels the familiar pangs of anxious excitement he had when standing in the blocks before an Olympic race.

“I want to go down there and share my knowledge and experience to help every one of those kids,” said Reynolds, a former world record-holder in the 400 meters and an Olympic gold medalist. “I want to tell them their blocks are set up wrong, that they’re warming up or stretching improperly, that they need to keep hydrated. It may sound like an obsession, but my life is all about mentoring now.”

Reynolds, 51, has every right to hold a grudge…