Biography
Allen Stark writes: I was born in McAllen, Texas. We moved around when I was young, from McAllen to Shreveport, La., to Fort Worth, Texas, and then, when I was nine, to Tulsa, Okla. I first took...
Fitness
When I heard about the Masters Training Camp at the Olympic Training Center in the Spring of 2002, I was very excited about the prospect and applied immediately. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity...
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