South Carolina Track Team Wins Title Without a Track

May 22, 2014 /

It’s a story you typically see in a movie… Imagine playing a sport, but you don’t have the resources to practice, and still, your team goes on to be state champions.

Well that’s exactly happened to a high school track and field team in Pageland, South Carolina.

Busted hurdles and one starting block known as “Old Rusty”, that’s what the Central High School track and field team had to use this season, but it didn’t stop them from becoming state champions.

“Our conditions are bad,” said Central High School Track and field Coach Billy Blakeney.

Blakeney showed WBTV around his team’s practice facility, but there was no rubberized artificial running surface, just natural grass and dirt and hand painted lines to mark start and finish points.

“We got potholes. Running around the field, one of my guy’s twisted his ankle one day right before a meet,” said Blakeney.

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