Wednesday, June 15, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Running commentary
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
Two likely Olympians
stood before me about
15 minutes apart at the
NCAA Track and Field
Championships on Saturday,
June 11, after winning their
races. I had come as a
reporter, hoping to get more
of an inside view of an elite
athlete or two.
One was Raevyn Rogers,
who had just won her sec-
ond consecutive 800-meter
title for the University of
Oregon. Poised, exhuberant,
humble, and tremendously
talented, Rogers may well
rise to further greatness in
the years to come. Hers is
definitely a name for track
fans to remember as the
Olympic Trials return to
Eugene in July to determine
who will represent America
in Rio later this summer.
She said to make the
Olympic team she will have
to experience discomfort.
“Being uncomfortable
will help me grow,” she said.
She ran away from the
field in the final 200 meters
Saturday, but knows that
competing against post-col-
legiate professionals will be
an entirely different matter.
Marta Freitas, a
Portuguese runner for
Mississippi State, winner of
the 1,500-meters by .01 sec-
onds over Stanford’s Elise
Cranny, provided an even
more compelling and inspir-
ing story.
I was drawn to meet-
ing Freitas after watching
her run a courageous race,
which she led from the sec-
ond lap onward. Her gutsy
strategy made me wonder if
there was more to her story.
Early leaders seldom win
championship-level distance
races. Her style reminded
me of the great Oregon run-
ner Steve Prefontaine.
The joy on her face after
winning looked deeper and
richer to me than other vic-
tors, so I headed to the media
tent to listen to her when she
meet the press. This is where
I learned the reason behind
her effusive smile.
Freitas came to the U.S.
to be a collegiate student
and athlete in the hopes of
fulfilling a dream to be an
Olympian. She is the fastest
1,500-meter runner in her
home country. “By 15 sec-
onds,” she told me. It hasn’t
been easy.
Her father died two years
ago while in attendance at
one of her races in Portugal.
He told her he would shout
out her 1,000-meter split,
but the shout never came
and she discovered after the
race he had collapsed from a
massive heart attack.
Despite her grief, she
returned to Mississippi
State, where she found the
road rockier still. Last sea-
son she required leg sur-
gery during the winter, but
returned to form enough
to qualify for the NCAAs
where she made the final.
During the race, she fell,
breaking her wrist, and fin-
ished last.
Her will to strive for her
and her father’s dreams,
along with her faith in her
coach, carried her into 2016
and ultimately to the top of
the podium.
Her day played out just as
she had hoped. I discovered
that she took the lead early in
the race to avoid getting tan-
gled up with other runners
again. She celebrated, albeit
a little early, thinking of her
father. She demonstrated
Blow-down trees used
for fish habitat
photo by Charlie Kanzig
Raevyn Rogers was inspiring.
in one race the beauty of
sport: Perseverance. Heart.
Motivation. Faith.
When asked after the
race how she had over-
come so much adversity, she
said, “You need to choose
whether to go to the bright
side and turn bad things into
something positive.”
I talked with her in per-
son for a minute after the
rest of the reporters left and
inquired about her Olympic
aspirations. She ran 4:09.53.
If she can run 4:07 in the
next few weeks, she will
attain the Olympic standard
and represent Portugal at
the Games. After watching
her and talking with her, I
became the newest mem-
ber of her fan club. I hope I
see her and Rogers’ names
among the entrants in Rio.
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