John Zant  Courtesy Photo  John Zant  Glory Days  This hard-
running athlete is none other than John Zant, our hard-working
sports editor, back when he was a Golden Knight on St. Francis
High School’s track-and-field team in La Canada. The fastest
sprinter in his league, he was first to clear the tape in this
1964 shot as anchor on an 880-yard relay. In the fall, John was
a running back on his football team and scored 12 touchdowns the
year they won a CIF championship. He remembers dreading the
start of a practice season because it took so much hard work to
get into shape, “but it was a powerful feeling to be in shape,
to run 70 yards for a touchdown or go full speed halfway around
the track and not run out of breath.”  event calendar sponsored
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