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- Pride and joy of his race, Jim Myers
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- Some day, Chris Schurz might run away from everyone to all
- the glories the world can grant to speed and grace. Some day.
- Today, Schurz is alone, a 17-year-old cross country runner
- who has sped so far ahead of his peers that few who revere his
- speed and grace dare guess how far his talents will take him.
- Schurz, a senior at Mesa's Westwood High, is the only three-time
- state cross country champion in Arizona history.
- By most estimations, Schurz--who friends and family call
- Chuckie--runs for something more than a school, a community, a
- state. He lives in the Salt River Indian Community, a
- reservation northeast of Phoenix, next to Scottsdale and Mesa.
- His mother is Sioux; his father, Pima.
- The family says word there's a young runner--maybe even a
- future national or Olympic champion, and Indian champion--has
- reached Indian communities across the USA.
- "Yes, people get excited," says his mother, Valerie. "They
- say, 'He's a Sioux boy, a Pima boy.'"
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