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Trenton Guy, one of Charlotte’s top sprint coaches, died July 10. The cause of death has not been released.

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Guy was assistant men’s and women’s track and field coach at Johnson C. Smith and a sprint coach at West Charlotte High. A onetime sprinter at JCSU who qualified for the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials, earned his undergraduate degree from JCSU in May. Guy had been battling cancer in recent months.

“We are extremely shocked and deeply saddened,” JCSU athletics director Steve Joyner said in a statement. "It's very hard to put into words the sense of loss that those of us who worked with him feel right now. Trent was someone for whom I had a great deal of respect."

Guy coached some of Charlotte’s top sprinters, including his son Trent Jr., a former West Charlotte star who completed his freshman year at Clemson and Gabrielle Glenn (Providence), a freshman at South Carolina. His work at West Charlotte resulted in the Lions ascending to the top of North Carolina’s top high school programs in recent years, with the Lions’ boys winning N.C. 4A championships in 1995, 1999 and 2003. He worked with Leford Green, a Division II national indoor champion in the 400 meters and hurdler Shermaine Williams, who represented Jamaica in the Junior World Championships last week in Poland.

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