MADDIE VAN BEEK: MEMORABLE RUNS INCLUDE FIRST STEEPLECHASE RACE AND RUNNING THREE MILES CRADLING RESCUED KITTEN

While Maddie McClellan Van Beek has a history of being an introvert, she wants the world to know she is an animal lover.  On a memorable run on a gravel road near Hawley, Minnesota with friend Erin Teschuck—a future Canadian steeplechase Olympian—Maddie discovered a kitten and cradled it in one of her arms the final