The best girls shot-put thrower in Kansas this season wasn’t even a thrower two years ago.

Gabby Lavington came to Cheney as a sprinter. And a good one at that, as she ran a leg on the school’s state-placing 400-meter relay team as a freshman.

But after tearing her quadriceps muscle, Lavington was robbed of the same explosion she had before the injury. She figured since she couldn’t return to form in the sprints, she would turn to throwing.

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