Bryan Gilmore, former wide receiver of the S.F. 49ers (now a free agent) said to Ann Frederick 6 weeks ago “I’m bringing in a friend of mine that I’m training. He’d like to make the Olympic team and I believe he can do it.”

After Bryan paid for Michael Lawrence’s first visit, Ann said “It’s on the house from now until he makes the team. I’ve always loved supporting at least one athlete each Olympics”. The last Olympian Ann worked with extensively was Sanya Richards who won the gold in the 4 x 400 and later became the fastest individual runner in the world in the 4oo meter event.

Michael Lawrence is like Forrest Gump in the sense that he doesn’t have much of a background training for the games but knew that he could run and should soon find a coach if he was to fine tune his technique. Bryan Gilmore ran track in high school and believed that his friend was a natural.

Well the short story is, Michael found a running coach in Phoenix and then he found Ann who has been his flexibility coach for the past 6 weeks. This past weekend , all the hard work paid off big when Michael ran the 200 meters in 20.4 seconds qualifying him for the Olympic trials and a chance to make team Beijing.

After he qualified, Michael said “Ann not only got my body right, she got my head right too!” We wish him the best in his quest to make the mens Olympic track team for 2008!!

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