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Pretty good for a girl

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An edition of Pretty good for a girl (1998)

Pretty good for a girl

an athlete's story

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Sports is the quintessentially American dream ticket out of an unhappy life. For Leslie Heywood, champion high school miler, running was just such an escape, her feet flying away from a childhood filled with violence and enforced silence. On the track she mattered, on the track she was certain of who she was. But the world of sports was still a world uncertain of whether it wanted to allow girls in, and Heywood ran headlong into the arms of her coach and then into a collegiate team whose standards for body-fat percentages and diets and training left every athlete struggling with eating disorders and serious injuries from overuse. She kept running, and winning, until she ran too far. No one knew how to help her or stop her. She almost ran herself to death-- until she had to learn to stop.

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University of Minnesota Press
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Subjects
Sports, Women athletes, Women runners, Femininity, Social conditions, Sex differences, Childhood and youth, Biography
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Leslie Heywood
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United States

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Pretty good for a girl: an athlete's story
2000, University of Minnesota Press
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Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete's Story
December 14, 1999, University of Minnesota Press
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Pretty good for a girl
1998, Free Press
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Published in
Minneapolis
Series
Sport and culture series ;, v. 1
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.42/092, B
Library of Congress
GV1061.15.H49 A3 2000, GV1061.15.H49A3 2000

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL52610M
ISBN 10
0816636591
LCCN
99059978
OCLC/WorldCat
42955470
Library Thing
5395
Goodreads
705167

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