Walter Panas

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Lance Roller is one of the best scholastic runners not on a HS team By Christopher Hunt He said he was used to it by now. Lance Roller heads out to practice at the track at Cortlandtville Middle School. He warms-up alone. He stretches alone. There is a voice telling him when to pick up the pace, when to maintain. The voice tells him to keep his running form intact. It tells him to fight through this last repetition. It’s his own voice. Roller gauges his own fatigue and motivates himself when his legs tried to tell they’ve had enough. Yet Roller is one of the best 800-meter runners in the country never seen at a high school meet. Roller is a senior at Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor but doesn’t run for his school’s team. He signed to compete at the University of Virginia earlier this month. FULL STORY HERE