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2023 Mets Draft profile: Zach Thornton

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Zach Thornton comes from a family of athletes. His father, Paul, ran track at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. from 1989 to 1993, where he won a conference champion in the 1,000-meter run in 1993. His mother, Julie, participated in track and field, cross country and soccer at Lewis & Clark College and St. Olaf College from 1988 to 1992, where she was an All-American in heptathlon in 1991 and 1992 and later inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame. His grandfather ran track at the University of Kansas in the 1960s. Zach attended Lawrence Free State High School in Lawrence, Kansas, going undrafted after graduating in 2020.