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Osan freshman Charlotte Ng, middle, dark tank top, went unbeaten as an eighth-grader last year and would have been top 10 in every high school meet if eliglble.

Osan freshman Charlotte Ng, middle, dark tank top, went unbeaten as an eighth-grader last year and would have been top 10 in every high school meet if eliglble. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea – While posting a 12th-place finish in last October’s DODEA-Pacific Far East cross country meet, Cassie Jarzabek said she couldn’t help but admire the race’s overall winner, Jane Williams, of Matthew C. Perry.

“I want to break her records,” Jarzabek said last Oct. 23 at Misawa Air Base, following the 5-kilometer Far East run.

The Humphreys sophomore spent most of the summer at two running camps in Oregon in an effort to improve her running game, and said the takeaways from those camps were “amazing.”

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