can someone post any information about blake russell? what's her story? seems to me that 2:30 for a debut is pretty awesome and i haven't heard much about her heading into the trials.
can someone post any information about blake russell? what's her story? seems to me that 2:30 for a debut is pretty awesome and i haven't heard much about her heading into the trials.
blake was a 5:20ish high school miler in north carolina attending forsyth country day school ( a private school) in the winston-salem area. she was a walk on at UNC where she develpoed into an ACC champ (1500, 3000) during her senior year. she gives joan nesbitt mabe the deserving credit for her development. during her senior year she met jon russell, a massachusetts native running for wake forest and an ACC champion himself (5000, 10,000). when they married she moved to the boston area and began to get coaching from bob sevene. she was a great student and has her masters degree in physical therapy. things have worked out well for her which is good as she is a great person.
a side note. her husband constantly harassed the volenteer assistant coach at wake. fortunately the assisant liked jon and took good care of him.
Well, there are two links on the letsrun front page about Blake, one from her hometown paper and one from runnersworld.com. Why don't you READ them if you want to find out about Blake?
i didn't see the links about blake - haven't searched anywhere, just thought i'd ask. thanks i'll check those out.
just curious for newman...what does the volunteer assistant track coach at wake have to do with blake russell?
read the last sentence of my post again.
I read it & i still don't get it. what's the connection.