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* Requires RegistrationAndersen Sets her Sights on Beijing
June 27, 2008
Lindsey Anderson still has a hard time believing it.
Only a year and a half ago, the Morgan native was just another runner getting ready for her final college season at Weber State University. But now, she's among the top contenders to finish in the top three in the women's steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field and reach the 2008 Beijing Games in China... more
| Strong Taking Her Best Shot
June 27, 2008
“I’m very excited,” Strong (the former Kelly MacDonald) said earlier this week by phone from the Seattle area. “This is going to be such an amazing experience, especially with it in Eugene. It should be incredible.”... more
| Mitchell Added to Australian Team
June 27, 2008
Victoria Mitchell joins Donna MacFarlane on Australia's Olympic Team.... more
| New Event, Same Olympic Dream for Galaviz
June 27, 2008
Since the tender age of 8, Lisa Galaviz has had Olympic dreams.
The steeplechase, however, wasn't part of her second-grade vocabulary. Back then, she was into tumbling.
Twenty years later, she likes her chances of being an Olympian in Beijing this summer.... more
| Cromer Looks to Make Olympic Team
June 27, 2008
Dawn Cromer has two reasons to go all-out in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field trials that begin Friday and run through July 6. The 1998 Woodbridge High School graduate is attempting to secure an Olympic berth in the event. She is also competing knowing this is the final opportunity she is giving herself to compete in the Olympics... more
| Donna MacFarlane
June 27, 2008
There are not too many modern athletes who retire for five years then are brave enough to declare they want more.
And even fewer who have two children in their time off then return to be better than they were... more
| June Gearing Up for the Trials
June 27, 2008
“I'm seeded 13th for the Trials,” the St. Joseph graduate said in a phone interview. She chuckled. “I ran 13 seconds faster in my last steeplechase race than I'd run the one before. I'm thinking that I can run at least another 13 seconds faster in the preliminaries and then ANOTHER 13 seconds faster in the finals.”... more
| Brown Scratches from the Steeple, Declares in the 5K
June 26, 2008
Team USA Minnesota has announced that Emily Brown will run in the 5000m at the Olympic Trials and has scratched from the steeplechase. Brown ran an impressive PR of 15:19.57 to win the Cardinal Invitational in May but has the Olympic "A" qualifier in the steeple.... more
| Record performance gives Barringer shot at 2008 Olympic Games
June 26, 2008
When Jenny Barringer first left Oviedo for Boulder, Colo., in 2005, she simply worried about how she'd fit in during her first year of college. Little did she know that three years later she'd be on the verge of representing the United States in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.... more
| Maine native Willard a steeplechase favorite
June 26, 2008
"I'm going to win," she said. "I'm going in with those expectations. Mentally I feel I should be No. 1. So I have something to prove."... more
| Barringer Focusing on One Thing at a Time
June 26, 2008
"When I think about the next couple races coming up, I think about Monday. I have got to make it through the prelim," Barringer said. "I have got to be able to race really well and have a clean race. I can barely get myself to think about the final."... more
| Olympic hopeful Bush in position to succeed
June 24, 2008
The first time she stepped onto a cross country course in the Sleeping Bear Dunes region, she took one wrong turn and promptly fell down.
That was Nicole Bush's introduction to high school cross country.... more
| MacFarlane Overcoming Adversity and Chasing Gold
June 21, 2008
By any measure it has been a tumultuous year for Donna MacFarlane.
It might appear that a campaign to reach the final of the first-ever running of the women's 3000-metre steeplechase at the Olympics was enough to deal with for any athlete.... more
| Her love for running hasn't hit the bell lap
June 21, 2008
Kelly Fullerton didn’t quite get there — to the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials. Still, the Roseburg High graduate felt she gave it her best shot.... more
| Inzikuru Turns Focus to 2009 World Champs
June 20, 2008
Inzikuru won the inaugural 3,000m steeplechase race at the 2005 Helsinki World Championships and won gold at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. But she has since last March struggled with illness and took time to give birth last December.... more
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