Another Illustration for the Notable Missourian series to be published by Truman State University Press. This is Helen Stephens AKA the Fulton Flash. She was an Olympic Gold Medalist (x2) and all around super athlete. When she was a kid she did not have a track nearby to practice on, so to train Helen would jump ditches and fences and run through corn rows on the family farm. She even outran her cousin...who was on a horse!
Helen Stephens composition sketch
This Notable Missourian (Truman State University Press) comp sketch is of Olympic gold medalist Helen Stephens, AKA The Fulton Flash. She was one impressive woman! As a teenager she lived on a farm where she would use her surroundings to train. She would race between cornrows, hurdle over fences and ditches and of course work her butt off doing farm chores. She even beat a horse in a race to school! This sketch option combines a bit of all of that.
