After runners Randy, Fritz, Eugene, and Dum Dum are beaten by a speedy team of girls, they become determined to tie the score through a rigid training program of diet, biking, and days of running
Rozanne Knudson was born in Washington, D. C. She received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1954, a master's degree from the University of Georgia in 1955, and a Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1967.
Knudson wrote more than 40 books. But she is best known, particularly among teenage girls, for the four “Zan” books. Published in the years after the passage of Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibited federal funding for education programs that discriminate on the basis of sex, including sports, the series called on young women to eschew cheerleader skirts and pompoms.