He initially didn’t want to run — he hid from the track coach in middle school to avoid signing up. Now, Tinoda Matsatsa, a senior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal, has become one of the top middle-distance runners in the country.
Tinoda Matsatsa has always loved soccer — most nights, he’s dribbling the ball around the house. A senior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal, he was a striker on the varsity team.
“It doesn’t matter if he has a coach or he doesn’t have a coach,” Taderera said. “He trains himself. If it’s raining, snowing, it’s scorching hot, he doesn’t stop training. He will train independently without being told by the coach to do it.” “When I first saw [the time] when I first crossed the line,” Matsatsa said, “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s not real.’ But the more time passed, the more I was like, ‘That 3:58 is actually true.’ ”
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