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Article: YORKVILLE GRAD HEJTMANEK SETS CAREER RECORD AT CARTHAGE
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2000
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Her first day of practice as a college tennis player was an adventure in horror.
Talk about culture shock.
Kristin Hejtmanek felt as though she'd entered an alien world as a freshman at Carthage College.
In some ways, she had.
When Carthage tennis coach Brady Lindsley outlined the players' training regimens, it was akin to a foreign-language class for Hejtmanek.
"One of the things he told was that I'd have to run at least a mile every day," said Hejtmanek, a 1997 graduate of Yorkville High School.
"My response was . . . `What!?'
"I had never run in my life.
So, when I started training, I would sprint, then walk, then sprint, then walk until I completed the mile.
The next day, he ...