Coach Bill Thorn will be the guest speaker at the next

meeting of the Peachtree City Running Club meeting to be held at

7:30 p.m. on Monday Mar. 1 at the Wyndham Peachtree

Executive Conference Center.

As head football coach, head track coach and athletic

director at Landmark Christian, Coach Thorn has kept busy over the

years. He has compiled an incredible lifetime record of 182 wins,

78 losses and five ties. One of his most ambitious projects was

the fund raising for and building of a new track for the students at

Landmark. The track had been a longtime dream of Thorn's and

was completed in 1997.

His battle cry over his 32 year coaching career has been

"Given time, hard work beats talent." Winning one state

championship in track ( as his Landmark team did in 1996) is tough enough;

winning two (1997) is remarkable; winning three (1998) is

phenomenal. Incredibly, he will be going for an unprecedented fourth

consecutive state championship this spring.

He was selected to be an Olympic Torchbearer in the 1996

Games here in Atlanta. The Atlanta Track Club selected him later that

year as Boys' team Coach of the Year. In 1994, on the occasion of

the 25th consecutive running of the Peachtree Road Race, Bill

Thorn was inducted into the Peachtree Hall of Fame along with

such luminaries as Gayle Barron and Jeff Galloway.

This year will mark another milestone for him when he

goes for his 30th consecutive Peachtree Road Race. The public is

invited to come and hear this legend share his thoughts on how to be

a winner in both athletics and life.

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