Ganado’s Lynette Lookingback selected as Wings’ National Team head coach
Navajo Times | File photo Ganado cross-country coach Lynette Lookingback was recently selected to guide the Wings of America Junior Women’s National Team at the USTAF Cross-Country Championships on Feb. 6 in Bend, Ore.
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Ganado cross-country coach Lynette Lookingback was recently selected to guide the Wings of America Junior Women’s National Team at the USTAF Cross-Country Championships on Feb. 6 in Bend, Ore.
A top coach from the area has been selected to guide Wings of America’s Junior Women’s National Team at the USTAF Cross-Country Championships in Bend, Ore. on Feb. 6, 2016.
Ganado’s Lynette Lookingback, who was named Navajo Times Track and Field Coach of the Year last spring, will serve as head coach.
Lookingback said she was surprised to be selected and is excited about the opportunity to coach seven top Native American cross-country runners.
“I am unaware of how the selection process went and I did not apply,” Lookingback said. “I simply received a call from (Wings of America Executive Director) Dustin Martin about being selected and if I was interested. I accepted without hesitation.”
She said she couldn’t pass up the head coaching opportunity.
“When Dustin Martin contacted me regarding the coaching opportunity, I was very honored and excited,” she said. “I did not hesitate to the opportunity. I look forward to these types of opportunities and I am willing to challenge myself. In the first conversation with Dustin Martin, I felt his confidence in me and also his calm demeanor that assured my decision to take on this opportunity.”
She said being selected Wings of America head coach instills pride in the Ganado community and school.
“By being selected to coach the Wings’ Junior Women’s team, it instills a great sense of pride in acknowledging what I have done in my community and as a high school coach,” Lookingback said. “I was selected because of my ‘consistent willingness to go above and beyond for my runners.’ I am very honored to be selected and to know Wings of America expressed awareness of my passion for running and especially students/athletes.”
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