Athlete of the Week - Clara Grandt

Clara Grandt shimmy-schuffled her way to a very impressive finish this past weekend at the D1 - Regional Meet in Talahassee, Florida. She battled it out with the lead pack of runners in the Women's 5K and held on for 8th place with a time of 16:35.83. Now she didn't get the auto-qualifier spot, but her 16:28.57 from Stanford makes her an at-large qualifier and puts her name on the D1 NCAA Nationals 5K list. But it doesn't matter. She's not even going to run it. Clara has already qualified for the 10K with her nasty time of 34:15.07 (which won her an ECAC title and was less than a second off the WVU school record) and she is runnining that instead. Most people spend their whole running careers trying to run fast enough to hit the standard for just one event at Nationals. Clara has done it for two events, in just one season. So off she goes to Iowa (with teammate Keri Bland) to take down that stubborn school record and earn All-American status by running against the Nation's elite. Best of luck to Clara (and Keri) this weekend!