Wed. May 1, 2013 | Joey Knight | Email

TAMPA — His rubberized straightaways often are preceded by rocky road.

Each Friday during track season, Alonso senior William Taylor-Haynes and a buddy head to a local Target, buy a gallon of ice cream and pop the lid before hitting the parking lot.

“I just eat it out of the gallon (container) with a spoon,” Taylor-Haynes said. “I never eat the same ice cream twice.”