Coeur d'Alene student overcomes injury, illness to run international event
An incoming Coeur d'Alene High School senior had to get over being severely under the weather as she participated in a track meet Down Under only seven months after her second knee surgery.
"I ended up getting sick two days before the track meet with a gastrointestinal stomach bug that was going throughout the team," Maricela "Mari" Nelson, 17, said Tuesday.
The young athlete was in Brisbane, Australia, to compete in the Coast 2 Coast International Athletics three-day track meet at the Gold Coast Performance Center when she was hospitalized.
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