Danielle Tauro
02/12/2006
At the 99th Millrose Games girls hight school mile provided high drama. Saragoga's Lindsey Ferguson led most of the race with Dennis-Yarmount's Colleen Wetherbee right on her heels. With two laps to go, it looked like either Ferguson or Wetherbee would take the title, but Danielle Tauro of Southern Regional and defending champion Aislinn Ryan of Warwick Valley were busy battling each other and actually closing in on the leaders.

"Going into the last lap it was just me and Aislinn pushing each other," Tauro recalled.

Ferguson and Wetherbee were clearly tiring. Tauro broke free of Ryan on the backstraight of the last lap, and running through turn 3 got past both of the leaders to get an upset victory in 4:51.89. Wetherbee hung on for second (4:52.78) and Ferguson finished third (4:54.74) with Ryan fourth (4:55.60). According to Tauro's coach, Brian Zatorski, Tauro closed the race in 70.4 seconds for the final 440y.

"I don't believe it just happened," said Tauro of her victory.

We salute Danielle as BreakThru Athlete of the Week.

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