We Are Superman

One more in our series of standout performers at the Colorado High School State Championship meet, we are heading out to the farm, literally. I happened to be hanging around the finish line there talking to Matt Kleve, whose son Max was competing in sprint events for Holyoke High School, a school of about 250 students way out on the Eastern Plains of Colorado not far from the Nebraska line. Generations of Kleves have lived in Holyoke, a town of around 2500 residents, and Max’s family grows wheat and raises cattle, so like I did, you will learn a little about farm life and FFA, formerly Future Farmers of America. Matt told me some of his son’s story of suffering a disastrous ACL tear in a high school football game his junior year, enduring a long, arduous rehab process, and coming back to compete at the state track meet. Max is a very bright and perceptive young man, and what is cool, too, is that Max candidly discusses his battle with anxiety, going to therapy, and how through discovering there is something b