If you want something bad enough to go out and fight for it

Work day and night for it,

Give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it —

If only the desire of it

Makes you mad enough never to tire of it —

Makes you hold all things tawdry and cheap for it;

If life seems all empty and useless without it,

And all that you scheme and dream is about it —

If gladly you'd sweat, fret for it, plan for it,

Lose all your terror of evil or man for it —

If you'll simply go after the thing that you want

With all your capacity, strength and sagacity,

Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity —

If neither sickness or pain of body or brain

Can keep you away from the thing that you want;

If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it —

You'll Get It. You'll Get it!

When Andersen beat Schook at Stanford, she followed a race plan by coach Shane to perfection. "And she still had a lot of run in her," Shane said.

Shane sees the drive in Andersen, and he's been around the best. His college roommate was 400-meter hurdle world record holder Ralph Mann, and one of his coaches was Olympian L.J. Silvester.

"All the world-class athletes I've been around are driven and have that attribute, and I see it in Kassi, no question," Shane said. "To be driven may not be absolutely necessary, but it's an attribute you see in the best. You need it to train day after day, month after month, year after year to get what you want.

"It isn't enough to be driven. There are probably a lot of over-motivated, compulsive-driven people who are not going to be All-Americans. But Kassi has that, plus she has a tremendous genetic talent to go with it. She is 5-foot-11 and being tall adds to her ability. She has great mechanical form and execution."

There's a price to be paid for the determination and drive. Sometimes social life and friends are put on the back burner.

"You give up a lot," Shane said. "But it is that quality of fierce determination that is necessary to reach great heights in athletics."

Another key is her workout partners. They include Jackson, the American record holder, and Mannova. These are national-caliber partners who are pushing one another to succeed.

Right down Andersen's alley.