Jim Yurwitz recalls how he watched Wallace Spearmon win the boys 100-meter dash during the 2003 Class AAAAA state track meet at Hot Springs, when the Fayetteville sprinter appeared to be out of the race moments after it had started.
“I was near the starting line, on the concrete bleachers when it happened,” said Yurwitz, who was Rogers’ track coach at the time. “The gun went off, and I don’t think his block slipped. He just stumbled out of the blocks, and he put his hands on the track.
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is looking back at the greatest high school athletes in its 12-county coverage area.