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Article: TEA family member win top honors at special olympics.(Christina Burnett, daughter of Transportation Engineering Agency specialist Pat Burnett, wins gold medal)(Brief Article)
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- Translog
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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As the Special Olympics speed skaters entered the final lap of the 500-meter competition, Pat Burnett started in disbelief.
Her daughter, Christina, 22, was in the lead.
Seconds later, Christina came in first across the finish line at 1:42.94: A gold medal winner!
"I could not believe it," said Burnett, a logistics specialist at MTMC's Transportation Engineering Agency, Newport News, Va.
"Christina was beaming; I was shaking."
The first-place finish was the climax to an amazing adventure Burnett, her husband, Mitch, and their daughter had taken to Alaska. Christina was one of six members of Team Virginia competing in the ...