Synonymous with the words "cross country" and "track" on Hawk Hill these days is Zach Michon, a seven-time Atlantic 10 All-Conference selection and four-time Atlantic 10 individual champion who, as a senior last year, defeated the defending champion to win the A-10 Cross Country Championship in Fall 2019 before going on to defend his mile title and add a second gold medal in the 3000m at the A-10 Indoor Track and Field Championships in Winter 2020.

But for a person with and for others, those accomplishments don't matter much. They just never have for Michon, ever since the experience of a childhood situation that could have redirected his entire path exactly one decade ago.

Ever since that day when a 12-year-old Zach Michon entered the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for surgery.

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