Running on Concrete

Grant High School head track coach Jim Tucker remembers the injuries that built up over the last few seasons. Shin splints. Stress fractures. Pulled muscles. “More lower leg and foot injuries than in any other year in my 21 years of teaching,” Tucker says. The culprit? Grant’s broken down and battered track. While schools like Lincoln and Cleveland enjoy newly laid surfaces, Grant has had to deal with a track that has long…