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Skyline's Jordan Freeman always has a smile on his face during practice. Freeman was diagnosed with meningococcal toxemia at 7 months and has had more than 130 surgeries. <!--IPTC: LONGMONT, COLORADO, APRIL 19, 2007- ABOVE: Jordan always has a smile on his face during practice. Practice is held 5 days a week for 2 hours a day. Jordan also practices an hour in the mornings. Longmont swimmer Jordan Freeman hasn't let his disabilities get in the way of participating in a normal life. Although he was born a healthy baby, Freeman was diagnosed with meningococcal toxemia at only 7 months old. The disease is a bacterial infection that affects the blood and is ususally fatal. He survived the disease, after being given an experimental drug, but was left with an amputated right arm and severely disfigured limbs. In his short 15 years of life, Freeman has undergone 122 surgeries. He recently joined the swim team at Longmont High School where both Skyline High School and Longmont students compete. He is coached by Marie Huff the head coach and Barb Hillstrom Assistant Coach. Huff is the one who urged Freeman to originally try out for the team. During competitions, of which he has competed in 3 so far, he competes in the 50 yard freestyle as well as being the anchor leg of the 200 yard freestyle. The team practices at Centennial Pool just a stones throw away from Skyline High School. PHOTO BY HELEN H. RICHARDSON-->
Skyline’s Jordan Freeman always has a smile on his face during practice. Freeman was diagnosed with meningococcal toxemia at 7 months and has had more than 130 surgeries. <!–IPTC: LONGMONT, COLORADO, APRIL 19, 2007- ABOVE: Jordan always has a smile on his face during practice. Practice is held 5 days a week for 2 hours a day. Jordan also practices an hour in the mornings. Longmont swimmer Jordan Freeman hasn’t let his disabilities get in the way of participating in a normal life. Although he was born a healthy baby, Freeman was diagnosed with meningococcal toxemia at only 7 months old. The disease is a bacterial infection that affects the blood and is ususally fatal. He survived the disease, after being given an experimental drug, but was left with an amputated right arm and severely disfigured limbs. In his short 15 years of life, Freeman has undergone 122 surgeries. He recently joined the swim team at Longmont High School where both Skyline High School and Longmont students compete. He is coached by Marie Huff the head coach and Barb Hillstrom Assistant Coach. Huff is the one who urged Freeman to originally try out for the team. During competitions, of which he has competed in 3 so far, he competes in the 50 yard freestyle as well as being the anchor leg of the 200 yard freestyle. The team practices at Centennial Pool just a stones throw away from Skyline High School. PHOTO BY HELEN H. RICHARDSON–>
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Denver Post staff writer Jon E. Yunt analyzes upcoming events:

GIRLS GOLF Grass is gettin’ a little greener. It always seems to take a little bit longer for the golf courses to green up, but once they do, there may be no better place to be on a spring day in Colorado. The girls golf loop will take advantage Monday in the 14th annual Ashley Forey Golf Tournament at Rolling Hills Country Club in Golden. The tournament is named for Forey, a Wheat Ridge golfer who died in a car accident in 1994. The 4A golfers on hand — notably Rifle’s Loren Forney, Colorado Academy’s Elizabeth Kresock and Evergreen’s Chance Forbes — can use Monday as a sort of practice round for the May 19-20 state tournament.

GIRLS SOCCER Old-school bonding. Want to get to know your teammates a little better? Sit on a train for 12 hours to Iowa with them. That is what Bruce Brown and his Grandview Wolves did starting Wednesday. Colorado’s top-ranked Class 5A players, fresh off a 0-0 tie with Cherry Creek on Tuesday, were all aboard to Burlington, Iowa, and the 2008 Brine Tournament of Champions. Grandview, led by senior midfielder Beth West, will put its No. 4 national ranking on the line against the likes of top-ranked Incarnate Word Academy from St. Louis and No. 5 St. Thomas Aquinas from Overland Park, Kan.

BOYS SWIMMING Jordan’s back. Skyline’s Jordan Freeman took the state swimming scene by storm a year ago, and it wasn’t because of his times. Freeman, now a sophomore for the Falcons, competes despite having battled a potentially deadly form of meningitis since he was 7 months old. He will be on hand Saturday at the Mountain View Invitational, one of two big-time invitationals — Pueblo County being the other — in the state.

BASEBALL Final weekend. It’s the last Saturday to jockey for any sort of position in the league standings and try to impress the powers that be in the baseball seeding committee with that one, last quality victory. The regular season ends for Classes 2A-5A on Tuesday, and 3A-5A get seeded Wednesday. For some, the chance at a perfect regular season is still out there, notably Class 5A No. 1 Cherry Creek, which finishes at Overland today and at Boulder on Saturday.

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