SARASOTA, Florida –A dream is just a dream unless it is nurtured to reality.Lacy Janson knows that her Olympic-sized dream may have never had a chance to come to fruition had she had not crossed paths with John Raleigh at Cardinal Mooney High School. Dreams are defining moments, so it is not surprising that not long after Janson realized her personal vision of making the U.S. Olympic pole vault team, her thoughts turned to Raleigh. Janson has not forgotten the coach who believed from the start that she had potential to soar to great heights.”He deserves so much credit for this,” Janson says about the coach who cajoled an accomplished volleyball player into giving the sport of pole vaulting a chance. “He put in so much time with me.”It was Raleigh, who has tirelessly championed the sport throughout the area for more than a decade, convincing Janson to take that first leap of faith in the spring of 2000. It was Raleigh who, less than two months later, first uttered the word “Olympics” to Janson’s parents.”I look back and I can’t imagine what Lacy’s mother was thinking when I said that,” Raleigh said recently. Today, they know what he was talking about. They can thank Raleigh for his vision — and also for making vaulting a family affair.  more