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The Captain Level
Many of you watching the Olympic Games on NBC have seen the testimonial by US Olympic distance runner Shalane Flanagan "thanking her Mom" for being there from the day she finished her first race as a child until today. The testimonial is aprt of an ad sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.
Flanagan, of course, is the daughter of Cheryl Pedlow (Flanagan) Treworgy, the former ISU distance runner who became the first female ever to receive an athletic scholarship to a public university. Cheryl, who went to high school at Indianapilis North Central, trained with the ISU men?s team and united with three other women to place second in the national championship meet in 1969.
Pedlow was the indoor women?s mile champion that year and went on to place fourth in the 1969 world cross country championships. She held the U. S. record for three miles at one time and the world record in the women's marathon. She was a member of five American world cross country teams and coached for a time before getting into other phases of sports-related businesses, including sports photography. She also designed and marketed a sports bra. Cheryl was inducted into the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame many years ago.
While a student at the University of North Carolina, Shalane won the NCAA Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute. Cheryl returns to Terre Haute annually for the NCAA cross county meet and the Pre Meet Invitational. On those occasions, she usually speaks to the ISU cross country and track teams at the request of coaches John McNichols and John Gartland.
Flanagan, of course, is the daughter of Cheryl Pedlow (Flanagan) Treworgy, the former ISU distance runner who became the first female ever to receive an athletic scholarship to a public university. Cheryl, who went to high school at Indianapilis North Central, trained with the ISU men?s team and united with three other women to place second in the national championship meet in 1969.
Pedlow was the indoor women?s mile champion that year and went on to place fourth in the 1969 world cross country championships. She held the U. S. record for three miles at one time and the world record in the women's marathon. She was a member of five American world cross country teams and coached for a time before getting into other phases of sports-related businesses, including sports photography. She also designed and marketed a sports bra. Cheryl was inducted into the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame many years ago.
While a student at the University of North Carolina, Shalane won the NCAA Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute. Cheryl returns to Terre Haute annually for the NCAA cross county meet and the Pre Meet Invitational. On those occasions, she usually speaks to the ISU cross country and track teams at the request of coaches John McNichols and John Gartland.