Shalane Flanagan is a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is arguably the most dominant female collegiate distance runner in the nation with countless All-American certificates, blazing track marks, and a cross country national title.
We left the mad city at about 2:15 in the afternoon and reached Terre Haute about 8:30 in the evening. The city itself was relatively small, yet there were cars everywhere and the hotels were filled
It was a relatively cold morning in West Lafayette, Indiana, the home of the Purdue Boilermakers and the host of the 2002 Big Ten Cross Country Championships.
Running to a distance runner can feel like water to a fish. So what do you do when you are injured and can’t run?
Wallace is a fifth year senior and team captain at the University of Wisconsin. After earning All-American at the NCAA Cross Country Championships two years ago in 2000 and qualifying for the NCAA indoor 5000 meters last year, Wallace will help lead Wisconsin into 2003 again.