It is an annual tradition for the Bishop Carroll boys basketball team to gather on the track at the high school early in the morning during the fall before their season begins for conditioning workouts.

Connor Evans was always there. Cory Swords remembers watching from afar as the basketball players shared the track with the cross country team for workouts in those early mornings in August and September.

Sometimes when Evans was tasked with a lap around the track, or a 400-meter dash in the world of track and field, Swords would get out his stopwatch and time him. He remembers timing him as low as 52 seconds without Evans knowing he was racing.

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