Girls Track & Field: McLaughlin’s career is just starting to jump

Posted On: Thursday, April 23, 2015
By: ldevlin

RIDLEY TWP. — Try as he might, Ridley girls track coach Greg Stanzcuk could not get Valerie McLaughlin to take the sport seriously as a sophomore and into her junior year.

Heck, it took three of her friends, Lydia Garay, Maddy Moore and Brittany Shields, to convince McLaughlin to come out for the indoor track team as a junior, and that wasn’t until Thanksgiving in 2013.

All of the sudden, though, things changed. The young lady who never said a word and occasionally missed practice has developed into an exemplary team leader and one of the most versatile athletes in the county.

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