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Symmonds's career is picking up steam

Nick Symmonds is striving for a spot on the US Olympic team in the 800 meters. Nick Symmonds is striving for a spot on the US Olympic team in the 800 meters. (WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY)
By John Powers
Globe Staff / February 24, 2007

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He turned up at the starting line in Indianapolis for last year's USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships wearing his old Idaho high school singlet from Bishop Kelly with the BK on the front. "You sponsored by the burger place?" someone asked Nick Symmonds. (Full article: 986 words)

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