By Katherine Keel, Team USA
A hand roughly shook his shoulder as he heard the panicked whispers from his friends, “Wake up, Lopepe, we have to go NOW!” Though his legs felt like lead, the soles of his feet were bloody and he could barely walk, he began shuffling forward as fast as he could.
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By Down the Backstrecth
Will Leer went to Albuquerque to battle Bernard Lagat and returned a double USA champion. The Minnetonka grad had won NCAA DIII Championships, but the 3000m/Mile double at the USA Indoor Championships was his first, and second national titles. The double prompted one...
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Father, Chuck Aragon, was the first Fighting Irish to break 4 minutes in the Mile.
By Dan Murphy, Blue & Gold Illustrated
Alexa and Danielle Aragon heard the kind of stories that many fathers like to tell their children as they head off to college. They heard about chickens showing up in the...
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"This was something I really wanted and the Mile is not my specialty. I wanted to really conquer this distance and I think I made a step in the right direction."
By Linda Sprouse, Colorado Athletics
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Senior Emma Coburn claimed the University of Colorado's first NCAA indoor...
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