PIAA Track and Field Championships: Strategic Kraus is golden in girls 3,200

PIAA girls track and field: Saucon Valley’s Kraus rolls to gold in 3,200

The sun was blanketed in clouds Saturday morning in Shippensburg but Virginia Kraus had her sunglasses on.

PIAA Track and Field Championships: Strategic Kraus is golden in girls 3,200

SHIPPENSBURG — Virginia Kraus breaks down the 3,200-meter run into mini competitions in her mind. Get out fast on the first lap. Establish a pace and conserve in the next 800 meters. Then a push lap to get back on the pace she wants to be at. She then resets and runs a one-mile race. It all came together Saturday morning when the Saucon Valley junior never trailed and ran the second-fastest time in Lehigh Valley history with a 10:22.08 to claim …