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Rae Leaden is having none of it. The 70-year-old Winnipegger is about to wrap up her 49th year as a high school track and field coach and shows no signs of slowing down. “She’s probably the most incredible person I’ll ever meet in my life,” Arden Hill, a teacher at Maples Collegiate, told the .
NIC ADAM / FREE PRESS Rae Leaden is wrapping up her 49th year as a track and field coach at Maples Collegiate. After getting a knee replaced in July, she’ll back in the fall for year 50. Leaden downplays any suggestions she’s a sporting superhero, insisting she gets more than she gives out of the gig she’s been doing since 1975 — the first 33 years while working as a teacher in the Seven Oaks School Division, the last 16 purely on a volunteer basis.
“It makes me feel good,” she said Wednesday. “I really enjoy working with the kids.” Leaden’s dedication can’t be questioned.
Consider she’s going under the knife in early July for a left knee replacement with the.
