‘White noise’ helps propel South Eugene runner toward a big future

If you could hear inside Yosuke Shibata’s head during one of his cross-country races, you’d hear the sound of white noise.

That’s what the South Eugene High School junior cross-country runner heard when he won the Oregon School Activities Association cross-country 6A title Nov. 8, with a time of 15:01.01 over the 5-kilometer course.

It’s what he heard again during a muddy Nike Cross Nationals final in Portland earlier this month, when he finished 23rd in the nation…

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