Yahoo Sports reports that About an hour after watching his son run the 110-meter hurdles faster than any high school athlete, Rylan Hainje stood at the chain link fence at Greenfield-Central High School and shook his head.
Hainje called his son’s rise in the track and field world “magic.” Not that it did not come with work.
His son, also named Rylan Hainje, has put in plenty.
But to see this rise, from never playing sports to potential Olympian, does feel, well, a little magical.
“I’m just so happy for him,” the elder Hainje said of his son, a senior at Franklin Central.
“It’s great for him that he found something that he loves to do instead trying to follow in someone’s footsteps.