Ridgway senior Madalyn Freed clears the bar during the girls’ high jump competition at the Mickey Dunn Invitational in Grand Junction on March 28. Freed’s coaches and teachers credit her integrity and leadership. Photo by David Emory | Special to the Plaindealer
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Ridgway senior a study in honesty, leadership
Sancho Panza, in Miguel de Cervantes’ classic “Don Quijote,” often uttered, “Honesty is the best policy.” If that mantra was true for the late 1500s and also popularized by Benjamin Franklin in the late 1700s, then the refrain stays alive in the 2020s in the person of Ridgway Secondary School senior student-athlete Madalyn Freed.
Freed’s integrity caught the attention of her track and field coach, Peter Hessler, at the Mickey Dunn Invitational on March 28 in Grand Junction. It seemed ...
