 | Trotwood grad putting Lake Erie track on the map
By Sean McClelland, Staff Writer
11:29 PM Friday, May 21, 2010
Chris Burrows was unsure for awhile where the extra half-second came from that made him nationally relevant as a Lake Erie College redshirt freshman.
But now he thinks he knows: “It’s thanks to God. He helps me every day to push through each practice, each hard workout.”
Burrows (Trotwood-Madison) has qualified for the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championships on Thursday, May 27, in Charlotte, N.C. He is seeded 12th in the 200 meters after turning in a time of 21.18 seconds two weeks ago at Indiana University’s Billy Hayes Invitational.
That school-record clocking is the 11th-fastest in the country, and Burrows just missed qualifying for the 100 when his 10.63 fell less than 0.1 seconds off the cut line.
“I’ve kind of surprised myself,” Burrows said. “I was getting a little bit discouraged in the middle of the season when my times weren’t as good, but out of the blue it just dropped a half a second in the 200 in three weeks or so.”
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 | Sinclair basketball star finds the game again
British Alexander — the cousin of UD Flyers’ Chris Wright — making a name for himself.
By Tom Archdeacon, Staff Writer
Updated 2:36 AM Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Here’s a basketball tale with some blood and bruises.
“I remember it to this day,” Cookie Grigsby was saying a couple of nights ago as she watched her son, British Alexander, score 23 points for Sinclair Community College against Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The 6-foot-6 Alexander is the leading scorer of the 21-9 Sinclair basketball team. His first cousin, Chris Wright, is the leading scorer of the 19-9 Dayton Flyers. Each grew up with a single-parent mom in the tough Summit Square Apartments on Hoover Avenue.
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