MormonTimes.com: LDS runner values church, mission over sport

By Natalie McGill, For the Deseret News
Published: July 16, 2008
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- Jason Witt was never intimidated being the fifth of six children in a family of champion runners.

Instead, Witt attributes his success as a runner to his family, who he says "expected success, and I never knew anything different."

Witt, a member of the Midlothian Ward, Richmond Virginia Midlothian Stake of the LDS Church, was recently named All-Metro Track and Field Athlete of the Year by his local newspaper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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