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Sam Fling, a freshman at Hardin-Jefferson High School, has had a very strong start to his high school running career. He qualified for Regionals in cross country by placing 6th overall in district, and finishing as the #1 Freshman. He has also proven himself in the outdoor track and field season by running a record 4:47 mile amongst very tough upperclassman competition at the district meet. This district perfor-mance ranked him as the #40 Top Freshman District Performer in all of Texas in the 1600 meter on Texas Milesplit. He also competed well in the high school indoor track season this year at McNeese University, University of Houston and LSU running the 1600 and 3200 meter races running against fierce competition from multistates. Sam is an all A student, and has big plans on running in college.He will continue training and competing this summer with Beaumont Track Club under Coach Roy Washington. Sam is the grandson of Roy and Christi Fling of Evadale.