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Each month, USATF highlights a new Youth Spotlight to shine!

November 2019 Youth Spotlight: Carol Hardemon
 

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For 50 years, Carol Hardemon has served the track & field community on the local, regional and national levels, in various positions. Assistant Track Coach Miami Northwestern, USATF Regional 4 Junior Olympic Coordinator. She also spent 38 years at the Miami Dade Parks Department. 

Hardemon has been a part of the Run Jump Throw Program since its launch in 2015 and this past May Carol had 350 participants attend her RJT activation.
 
Hardemon’s volunteer efforts have been recognized and honored by groups ranging from Special Olympics to Senior Citizens programs, Hardemon was named the 2003 United State Olympic Volunteer Coach of the year, proclamation Miami-Dade County June 24, 2004 as Carol Hardemon Day, Miami-Dade County Employee of the year. 2017 Inducted into the Miami Northwestern Hall of Fame, 2018 received the Ronald L. Book Distinguished Service Award, Florida Track & Field Hall of Fame, 2018 Milton Hershey Award.

Accolades are not what have kept her involved for 50 years in the sport, it is her love for children, and the desire to help others, her success can best be measured in the lives of the people she has touched.

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