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Sara Slattery

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Sara Slattery (Gorton) grew up in Phoenix, Arizona with parents Terry and Helen Gorton and sister Lindsey. Sara was a 10-time Arizona State Champion in XC and Track and Field and was the US Junior Champion in the 3K and the Junior Pan American Champion in 1999. She also made the Jr. World Cross Country Championships that same year. She went on compete at the University of Colorado. At Colorado, She was a 10-time All-American and a four-time NCAA champion, winning the 2003 Indoor 5,000-meter run and the 2005 Outdoor 10,000-meter run and apart of two NCAA XC Championship teams (2000,2005). She was the CU record holder in the indoor mile (4:40.35), the indoor 3,000 (9:07.16) and the outdoor 5,000 (15:24.97) . She helped CU to its first national championship in women’s cross country in 2000 (as a freshman) and led CU its second crown as a senior in 2004. She was inducted to the CU Athlete Hall of Fame in 2016. Sara went on to have a successful professional career. In 2006 she won the Bolder Boulder and is the last American Woman to win the race. In 2007 she was the Pan American Games Champion in the 10k and was the alternate for the Olympic team in the 5K in 2008. She has personal records of 4:32 for the mile, 8:57 for 3K, 15:08 for 5K and 31:57 for 10K. She is also the 2013 World Eliptigo Champion. In 2015 she became the head Men’s and Women’s XC coach for Grand Canyon University and is one of the few women in the NCAA coaching both men’s and women’s teams. She and her husband Steve Slattery, former professional runner, live in Paradise Valley, Arizona with their two children Steven and Cali.

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How She Did It

Stories, Advice, and Secrets to Success from Fifty Legendary Distance Runners

By: Molly Huddle, Sara Slattery

Narrated by: Molly Huddle, Sara Slattery, Gisela Chípe, Chanté McCormick, Karen Murray, Eileen Stevens, Shannon Tyo

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Release date: 03-08-22

Language: English

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