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Crescent City Junior-Senior High School cross country coach Phil Johnson goes over technique with his top boys runner, Enrique Benitez, and top girls runner, Kristen Boyd, during a 2005 practice at the school. Johnson, who died on Dec. 18, was the Raiders’ first coach in the sport from 1998-2005 and retired winning the Daily News’ Coach of the Fall honor in 2005. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
When Anthony Vazquez qualified for the Florida High School Athletic Association 2A state meet in Tallahassee in late October 2022, it was the end of a chase that started 24 years ago.
It was 1998…