Heegaard puts bout with cancer behind her
Janae Heegaard is moving forward.
The 9-year-old isn’t the fastest runner on the Chick Evans Field House track during a Northern Illinois Athletics USATF youth club practice, and her pink and gray running shoes hardly leave the ground as she runs.
But step-by-step, her spindly legs move her forward, her shoulder-length brown hair bobbing with each pace.
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