Coach of the Year: Shelly Katzef, Winters Mill boys track

The Falcons became one of the state's elite teams this season under Katzef, a second-year coach who also guides the girls team. Winters Mill won the county, Monocacy Valley Athletic League's Piedmont Conference and Class 2A West regional championships before taking third in the state meet. (Baltimore Sun photo by Elizabeth Malby / March 19, 2009)

March 26, 2009
Shelly Katzef
Winters Mill

The Falcons became one of the state's elite teams this season under Katzef, a second-year coach who also guides the girls team.

Winters Mill won the county, Monocacy Valley Athletic League's Piedmont Conference and Class 2A West regional championships before taking third in the state meet.

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Katzef said that being a woman working with boys was never a problem and that there was mutual respect.


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