Cassie is the daughter of one of the board members of the Utopian Institute. Her father is the son of "Golden Age" speedster, The Outrunner. Dr. Sanderson didn't enter the costumed game himself as his speed abilities were much less impressive than his fathers. He did however gain the ability to read inhumanly fast and calculate complex formulae in his head at a computer like quickness. These attributes lead him to a life of academia. He married and found (not at all to his surprise) that his baby girl displayed superhuman speed at a young age. Cassie had also inherited her father's mental enhancements. She has used her quick thinking to affect feats her grandfather never thought of using her superhuman speed. She has also gained a certain level of enhanced strength, endurance, and healing her predecessors lacked. Realizing that he couldn't stop her from becoming a superhero, Cassie's father asked the Solution to take her in. A bubbly, rambunctious, and kind hearted young woman, Cassie is learning from her older team mates a lot about responsibility. She is still very young and impressionable, but has some very good role models to look up to. She has a crush on Wyldefire of the Lords of Justice. "Nice try but you'll have to be quicker than that!" Runaway is a speedster with decent combat ability. Cassie has some skill as a hand to hand fighter, acts very quickly, can push herself to several actions per turn and has a lot of options to use in combat. Of course, she usually just rams into her opponents. Spunky Teen Age Heroine for life lessons and immanent peril. Cassie is a pretty young teenager with a runner's physique. She wears a white costume with blue lightning bolts on the right size, a blue "R" over her heart, red opaque goggles, and blue boots. Her hair is blonde and she wears a ponytail that pokes out from the back of her cowl.