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| Jayce Riley with cross-country bicycle |
It
took two months and 3,785 miles, but Jayce Riley, grandson of legendary
Monongah High football coach Jim Feltz, pedaled his bike from Yorktown,
Virginia to San Francisco to honor his mother, Jaimie Feltz Riley, who battled
MS for 13 years before passing away when Jayce was a Fairmont West senior.
Jayce
took part in the Bike the US for MS campaign that raised funds to battle MS.
Jim
Feltz’ widow is Betty Lynn Wilson Feltz, Class of 1954, who lives in Fairmont
with son Jon Pat Feltz, who taught
math at Monongah Middle School for decades. Betty and Jim’s
other child is Jay Feltz, who quarterbacked Monongah High to its fifth and
final state football title in 1973. Jim coached the 1952 and 1954 MHS state
football championship teams.
More
than 400,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with MS.
A senior student at Fairmont State
University studying exercise science, Jayce will be a route leader for the
Northern Tier of the Bike the U.S. for MS next year. He’ll be in charge of
driving the vans and checking on the bikers and biking himself every fourth day.
He will bike a different route across America, starting in May 2019.
To
read the latest Fairmont Times article about Jayce finishing his mammoth trip,
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