Re: Cross Country / Track and Field

Originally Posted by
tony
Nell Graham's 52.57 400 meter is a full second faster than one of North Dakota's greatest sprinters/middle distance runners, Laura Roesler, ever ran at Oregon (of course, she specialized the the 800m there.)
To be fair, I know that Laura had some fantastic times in her legs of the 4x400 at Oregon - what a competitor!
Good article on Nell in todays InForum. I think this is for subscribers: https://www.inforum.com/sports/bison...th-bison-track
Summary: Lightly recruited; fastest 400 in high school was 57 seconds, was also a softball, basketball and volleyball player in high school; top 10 on NDSU outdoor lists in 200, 400 hurdles, 800 relay and heptathlon; going to Nebraska for graduate school next year in speech language pathology; family moved from Dodge Center, MN to Knoxville, TN after she committed to NDSU
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