Can’t pay? Can’t play!

Kathleen Castles, now a 46-years-old doctor of psychology and running coach at two Veterans Affairs hospitals in New Jersey, loved sports as a child and was a very talented athlete. She managed to beat all the other elementary-school girls in the town’s annual mile race from third to sixth grade, competed at the regional cross-country meet in Connecticut, and every year qualified for the Junior Olympic Nationals. When she was 10, she ran the mile in 5min and 35sec.

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