When you think of Newbury Park High School, distance running comes to mind.
There's Colin Sahlman, the program's recent 3:58 miler, and his brother, Aaron Sahlman, who ran 8:01 for 3k. Then there's Leo Young and Lex Young, the younger brothers of NAU star Nico Young.
Leo clocked a 4:00 mile outdoors recently, while Lex went 7:57 for 3K indoors, which was second all-time.
But Newbury Park's success has come from the boys' team's depth, and the Panthers have some sneaky good runners behind those four.
Which leads us to Daniel Appleford, a senior who recently announced his signing to the Colorado School of Mines, a top 100 engineering school nationally.
There is something poetic about the pairing of Appleford and the Colorado Mines.
In my mind, the most obvious similarity is that not everyone fully understands just how t...
