Banner Year

To Mom and Dad, Kate and Allyson
Whose names are written in a far better book…
And to James Timp, thank you.
“Jack Johnson ran with ghosts,” and so begins this adventure through the heart of a son who truly desires to please his father. Learning that his father’s days are numbered, high school cross country coach Jack Johnson decides to make this cross country season a “banner year.” Inviting his dad to become his assistant coach, he embarks on a journey to the State Meet that he hopes will fulfill his father’s lifelong dream of a State Championship. Along the way Jack finds love and with his father melds together an unforgettable group of characters into a team, a team whose prospects look unstoppable until all seems threatened by human frailty. What Jack does with his dream before the Lord defines the rest of the story until the riveting conclusion of the “Banner Year.”