It might be hard to believe, but Bailey Johnson wasn’t originally on the track team at Arlington Bowie High School. As a freshman, despite being one of the fastest girls in school – in the entire city – she had not included track on her schedule.
“I was planning on running, but I did not create my schedule,” the senior, who is now among the fastest runners in the entire nation, said.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she studied remotely from home in the eighth grade and, of course, did not compete in track despite competing in the seventh grade. As a result, when she transitioned back to the campus as a freshman, since she did not request track specifically, she was assigned to a PE class…