This is the fifth of a five-part series profiling the Mars Athletic Hall of Fame's Class of 2010. The five members will be honored at a dinner Friday at Mars Middle School.Jean (Santom) Schmiedel can't imagine her high school days without sports.A 1979 graduate of Mars High School, Schmiedel starred on the Planets' girls volleyball and track and field squads, collecting two and four letters, respectively."Sports teaches you about life," she said. "It shows you how to handle victory and disappointment. Nothing can teach you that quite like sports and I'm so glad I was involved with them in high school."Schmiedel is one of five people who will be inducted into the Mars Athletic Hall of Fame Friday.She still holds the school record in the girls' 100-meter dash (12.5 seconds) and is second in the 200 (26.0).She qualified for the PIAA Championships her sophomore and junior seasons, but a hamstring injury late in her senior campaign kept her from finishing her high school career at the state meet."That was very disappointing, but it goes along with being a sprinter," said Schmiedel, who now lives in McCandless.Despite the injury, Schmiedel was voted as Mars' top female athlete her senior year."That's something that was very special for me," she said.Schmiedel was introduced to track and field during her eighth grade year when varsity coach Tim Tyler took her and others to a junior high meet."I fell in love with it," she said. "From then on, I was in the sprint events."I was always attracted to track," she added. "With volleyball I got the team aspect and I really enjoyed that. But with track, it's the clock that is inside you and you can always improve."Like most other inductees, Schmiedel had nothing but good things to say about her high school coaches, which included Tyler and Herb Wellman in track and Marcia Semple in volleyball."I was blessed to have fantastic coaches," she said. "I had a wonderful time playing for them and my teammates were great."Schmiedel, the eldest of four children, was nominated by her sister, Lynne Workman.