One afternoon, many years ago when Abam was a fourth grader, she was recruited to blow the doors off all the little girls near her home in Houston. But just like in the children’s story “The Tortoise and the Hare,” Michaela’s race tactics left little to be desired.
“You have to pace yourself the whole time for the end sprint,” she recalled earlier this week, “and I sprinted the whole time. The last portion of the race I was done.”
And so was her track career. But Abam did have a nice little fallback: soccer.
Actually, soccer has been the No.