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Article: FloJo's style drew girls to track.(Originated from The Providence Journal)
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- September 21, 1998
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ Thom Spann would cut out magazine photos of Florence Griffith Joyner and paste them on the top of the recruiting posters for his girls track team that he hung on the walls of Hope High School back in the late '80s and early '90s.
If you want to look like this, join the girls track team, Spann would write on the poster under Joyner's picture.
The girls came running.
``She changed the way a lot of young girls looked at sports, especially track,'' said Spann, the veteran Hope High boys and girls track coach.
``She created respect as a woman for a female athlete. She showed that a girl could be a great athlete ...