County champion Ridgewood hurdler McPadden Rhode Island-bound
Friday, August 16, 2013
BY RON FOX
CORRESPONDENT
The Ridgewood News
RIDGEWOOD — Micaela McPadden was willing to enter just about any event for the Ridgewood High School girls track team when asked, but she didn’t necessarily have to like it.
“She didn’t like the 800 [meters race], but she was so good at it,” head coach Jacob Brown said Tuesday by phone, huffing and puffing during a break from clearing property he owns in northwestern Pennsylvania.
The University of Rhode Island-bound McPadden, one of Bergen County’s all-time fastest hurdlers, seemed to wince when the 800 was mentioned after our conversation with Brown. “I wasn’t a big fan of it,” she said with a laugh. “He forced me to do it.”
Brown understood McPadden’s reluctance. “It was so out of her range because she always ran the 100, 200 and 400,” he said, “but she did it, and she did it well. She became one of our best kids in the 800.”
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