When the gym at Robert E. Lee High School is closed for repairs, an eighth-grade girl who is determined to play sports organizes a football team

A teenage girl encounters problems when she tries to play on the boys' high school basketball team.

Zan Hagen separates her shoulder playing baseball and finds cross-country running a very satisfactory substitute.

After setting a record at the Virginia Cross-Country Championship, Zan sets her goals for an Olympic gold medal in the first women's marathon in Olympic history set to take place in Los Angeles in 1984.