She loves her teammates, the ambience of London, and the electric excitement of the nearly twenty thousand screaming fans who pack the London Aquatics Centre for the finals of each race. even more insufferable, but Susan Carol has always believed in her father to do the right thing. She'll have to swim the best two races of her life to qualify for London. Stevie, Bobby Kelleher (his mentor journalist from the Washington Herald), and Bobby's journalist wife Tamara Mearns attend the Olympic Trials to support Susan Carol, but once she's on the starting blocks it's all up to her. over Susan Carol whenever they disagree about her personal affairs, and Susan Carol fears the stress could impact her performance in Omaha. Never a materialistic man, the reverend's eyes seem full of dollar signs he sides with J.P. Susan Carol doesn't want to dwell on money matters, and she's concerned by the influence J.P. Endorsement dollars from a company like Speedo or Nike would more than pay for Susan Carol's college education as well as that of her siblings, and Reverend Anderson has acquired an agent, J.P. Stevie has watched in stunned awe as Susan Carol went from just being his girlfriend to becoming America's potential "It" girl. If Susan Carol punches her ticket to the Olympics, she'll be a millionaire athlete almost overnight. That seemed impossible a year or two ago, but now Susan Carol, her father (Reverend Don Anderson), and her coach, Ed Brennan, are headed to Omaha, Nebraska for the Olympic Trials. Always a good swimmer, in recent months she has catapulted into the conversation of Americans who might compete in the 100- and 200-meter butterfly races at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
At age fifteen, Susan Carol has grown to six feet tall in the last year and added a lot of lean muscle. Things are changing for Stevie and Susan Carol as book six in the series, Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics, opens. With the first book released in 2005 and the final one in 2012, John Feinstein's debut series for kids, The Sports Beat, takes a passionate, nostalgic view of sport, following teenagers Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson as they learn the ins and outs of journalism by reporting on the most compelling athletic events of their era.
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