“My coach Matt Centrowitz is probably one of the best in the country and is really great at developing athletes, and teaching you not just how to be a better runner, but also what it takes to really learn the sport and understand it."
By RikkiLynn Shields, The Manhattan Quadrangle
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As long as I can rise to each challenge, I’ll see how high I can go.
By Ryan Stellabotte, Fordham News
Kerri Gallagher, FCRH ’11, figured her track career was finished in late May 2011. She’d been a star runner at Fordham, but the Belle Harbor, New York, native wasn’t among the nation’s...
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Any free time Gallagher does allow herself is spent with live Irish music. Since moving to D.C., Gallagher has attended Eileen Ivers’s show in Virginia every year.
By Colleen Taylor, The Irish Echo
What do the 2015 IAAF World Track and Field Championships and Irish music have in common? As it...
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The Semifinal will be run on Sunday, August 23 at 8:45 pm local time. Live stream information available, here.
From USATF
All four U.S. women qualified for the semifinal in the 1500, two automatically and two by time. A slowish early pace kept the pack together in the first heat, with Shannon...
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Gallagher is grateful for all the support she has received as she gets ready for the biggest race of her life; 1500m prelims will be broadcast on the NBC networks at 11:15 p.m EST.
By Patrick McCormack, Brooklyn Daily
Kerri Gallagher is preparing for the biggest race of her career.
The...
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“That was an important year [2012] for me in learning how tough it can be but how rewarding as well even when you do come up short.”
By Debbie McGoldrick, IrishCentral.com
It takes lots of guts to give up a new career at one of the country’s largest financial institutions in pursuit of an...
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At this level of racing, it takes time to work on each aspect of the 1500.
By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
“Who’s Kerri Gallagher?”
More than a few track fans asked that after the 26-year-old finished third in the women’s 1500 at the USATF Outdoor Championships in June behind two-time...
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At the Lignano Meeting, rising Mile star smashed her personal record, running 4:03.56 for the win. Three seconds faster than the "A" standard and five seconds shaved from her PR.
By Meg Bellino, FloTrack
Many were expecting Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury to take over the women’s 1500m...
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With the work I’ve done this spring, I am confident that I have that time in me. Now I just have to make it happen.
By Patrick McCormack, Brooklyn Daily
Kerri Gallagher exceeded her own expectations at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships, moving her closer to putting her name among...
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