It’s been about a month since the DuPont Manual High School girls’ track and field team captured the Class 3-A state title in Lexington.
For Manual coach Zach Brooks, this was the latest chapter in a track and field career that began when he was a junior at North Hardin High School. Winning a state championship in any sport is never an easy task and only so many coaches can accomplish the feat. Now, around seven years into his career as a head coach, of which the last four have been at Manual, Brooks has his first one under his belt.
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