Second Shot (Jake Maddox Boys Sports Stories)

When fourteen-year-old Leggie LaGrande, star runner on the Bricklin Middle School track team, suffers a hamstring injury at the very start of the season, he figures his shot at the Junior Olympics is over--but his coach insists that even if he cannot runhe can still compete in some other track and field event, so he finds himself working out at the shot put, competing with a new student whom he dislikes.