Euclid's Sweet-Heart
Euclid High senior Emily Sweet enjoyed a very special weekend late last month, as she was crowned Euclid’s homecoming queen at halftime of the Oct. 21 football game against Lorain High.
The next day, despite being a bit under the weather, Emily won a district cross-country championship for the Panthers in the yearend meet at Lakeland Community College. In a photo finish, she topped the Division I field of distance runners with a time of 20:34, edging a Mentor runner by a fraction of a second.
Here, Emily flashes a big smile after receiving her homecoming queen crown, as homecoming king A. J. Stovall looks on.
Emily, who qualified for the state track finals in the 3,200-meter event last spring, was scheduled to race in the regional cross-country meet Oct. 29, in Youngstown. The top finishers in the regional were to advance to the state finals at National Trail Raceway, a drag racing facility about 15 miles east of Columbus.
John Sheridan
Retired journalist. From 1963 to 1972, wrote for and edited the Euclid News-Journal, predecessor to the Sun-Journal. From 1972 to 2000, I was a writer and editor for Industry Week magazine. Also have worked for the Plain Dealer as a part-time sportswriter, covering high school sports. And I was a contributor to the previous Euclid Observer. I have lived in Euclid for almost my entire life. I am a graduate of St. Joseph High School and John Carroll University.