FORT WAYNE Ask any principal or teacher, and theyll tell you one of the standard rules in any school is to not run in the halls.

Sometimes there are exceptions.

Our high school didnt have a track, Indiana Tech junior sprinter Adella King said, recalling her time at Detroit Finney. We ran in the hallways. It was wide enough for one person at a time. But we ran through the halls, up the stairs, back down, and through the halls again.

It was pretty frustrating. I got discouraged to the point where I stopped going to practices and kind of showed up at the meets and ran.

And her coach allowed her to do that?

Our program wasnt really a program, she said.

King has not only found a program at Tech, but Tech has found one of the top sprinters in the nation in King.

In the recent NAIA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Geneva, Ohio, King finished second in the 60-meter dash with a personal-best time of 7.43 seconds, finished fourth in the 200 with a school-record time of 23.90, and ran on the 1,600 relay team that was second with a time of 3:41.32 third-fastest in NAIA history.

I had seen her run at a couple meets and worked with a family friend, Tech coach Doug Edgar said of King. He said, This girls going to be really good.

Shes been more than good. With 12 All-America awards to her credit, King with a year and a half left in her career is already one of the more decorated athletes in Tech history.

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