For Focus on Agility Month, Ms. Morris, the girls' PE and cheerleading coach, decides to run a cheerleading practice during class. Jane and Daria refuse to participate, and sit out on the bleachers, from where Jane spots a cute guy walk into the gym. Ms. Morris comes over and chews them out for being lazy, and for some reason, this makes Jane feel that she needs to prove that she isn't a deadbeat. To do this, she signs up for the school track team (it just so happens that one of the other members is Evan, the cute guy she saw in gym).
She makes the team with flying colours, but as she always has practice after school, she starts ignoring Daria. This causes Daria to start talking to herself. When Helen notices this, she becomes concerned about her daughter, so she pays Quinn to spend some time with her.
Meanwhile, Jane has become a track star and somewhat of a jock (though she fortunately still wears her normal clothes - at school, at least). She and Daria have a fight when Daria embarrasses her in front of Evan and accuses her of not knowing who her real friends are, and Daria starts talking to herself even more.
Daria and Jane make up for about a day, but get mad at each other again when Daria discovers that Jane got a by on her math test, and tells her in no uncertain terms how screwed up that is. Evan asks Jane why she still hangs out with "losers" (namely Daria), and Jane finally realizes that her friend was right. She quits the track team and makes up with Daria.
Needless to say, Ms. Morris is not too pleased about the fact that her best runner quit the team, so she tries to blackmail Jane into rejoining. Jane, however, is too smart for this, but she and Daria still end up having to do cheerleading in PE for the rest of the month. Oh well, at least they tried.
