Coppin State track and field coach Carl Hicks wouldn't exactly call it a no-brainer to recruit a world-class sprinter and future Olympian, but it was about as close to one as you can get.
For Joseph Amoah, a 5-foot-11, 150-pound sprinter from Ghana, Coppin State was where his best friend Martin Owusu-Antwi was attending school. He had other options, but he wasn't about to pass on an opportunity to be reunited with his old training partner.
For Hicks and the Eagles, it was an easy decision to recruit Amoah. With a 100-meter dash time of almost 10 seconds flat, he's the fastest Ghanaian in the past 24 years, and after Owusu-Antwi talked up his old friend to Hicks, he knew he had to try to get Amoah to run on his team.
