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9-year-old heads back to nationals
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Braeden Kenan, a 9-year-old motocross racer from Stilson, shows off his game face in this 2011 file photo, taken when he was 7, before his first trip to the American Motorcyclist Association Amateur Motocross National Championship. Kenan qualified for the event again in 2013. - photo by Special to the Herald
HURRICANE MILLS, Tenn. — Stilson’s Braeden Kenan just made his dream come true again. The 9-year-old dirt bike racer from just outside of Brooklet has qualified for the largest amateur motocross race in the world, the 32nd Annual Red Bull AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch. Kenan took on over 20,000 hopefuls from across America to earn one of just 1,446 qualifying positions.