Despite dabbling in several different sporting endeavors during my high school days, the only time I came close to anything resembling a record book was in 1996, when I - intentionally, thankyouverymuch - achieved the lowest average score of any high school bowler, boy or girl, in the entire Northern Illinois Conference (this is not helping the public image of bloggers, is it?). It was a landmark achievement that required record levels of stick-to-it-iveness, marijuana, and apathy, and I thought it was the pinnacle of high school athletic achievement.

(Win. Rinse. Repeat.)

Amazingly, however, my record for high school athletic prowess has been shattered by a whippersnapper from Texas named Bonnie Richardson (a name that just screams “high school girl”, am I right). Bonnie young Bonnie managed to win the Texas girls’ state team track title the other day for the second straight year. That’s right - team title. By herself. Perhaps weed and apathy weren’t the magic weapons for athletic immortality I thought they were.

Richardson was the only girl allowed out of the house who came out for track at her rural Texas high school the past few years, but that didn’t get in the way for the obviously athletic young woman who, according to FOX SPORTS, tore up the state track meet:

The daughter of a Rochelle High teacher and a rancher, Richardson won four individual medals in five events: gold in the long jump and high jump, silver in the discus and bronze in the 200 meters. She also finished fourth in the 100 meters.

Was Bonnie the beneficiary of superior coaching and equipment, like so many kids these days?

Rochelle is a small, unincorporated farming town about 140 miles northeast of Austin. The high school doesn’t even have a proper track for Richardson to train. She runs on a circular path of hard, rutted caliche — a type of soil — that the McCulloch County commissioner smooths out about a once a year.

That’s pretty cool; in a sport that obsesses over the fanciest equipment and running surfaces, Richardson just made do with what she had and beat the crap out of all comers. Among the attention she’s received for her jaw-dropping athletic feats was a scholarship offer to run track at Texas A&M, where she will once again be the only girl in school.