My first thought on downloading this photograph was to ask our webmaster, Adam, to make a wider and taller space for this female athlete.
Carrie Tollefson (born January 18, 1977 in Dawson, Minnesota) is an American middle distance runner who was on the US 2004 Summer Olympic team.
Tollefson ran collegiately at Villanova University where she won the 1997 NCAA Cross Country Championships and the 1999 NCAA Outdoor and Indoor 3000 meters and Outdoor 5000 meters. She graduated from Villanova with a communications degree in 1999. At the US Olympic Trials in 2004, she won the 1500 meters. She competed in the 2004 Summer Games, making it to the semis in the 1500 meters. In 2004, she was ranked #1 nationally by Track and Field News.
source: wikipedia
the latest on Carrie……recovering from surgery
After qualifying and competing in her first Olympics in 2004, Carrie Tollefson is back for more in ’08. But the Dawson, Minnesota native is fighting her way back after abdomen surgery.
“Basically they re-attached my abdomen to the bone. I feel great, I’m trying to get back into it. Things are going well, I’m just not flying yet,” Tollefson admitted. She hopes to be though by late June or early July. That’s when the Olympic Trials are in Eugene, Oregon. (kar11.com
