Tracksters to tri athletes

[Nevada Hoya]

Three of our recent track grads are now competing and earning a living participating in triathlons. Dylan Sorensen, Kristen Kasper, and Renee Tomlin all have their elite cards. Renee just won an international sprint tri: www.usatriathlon.org/news/articles/2015/5/050915-chengdu-world-cup.aspx

[RusskyHoya]

An interesting modern development that it is now possible (and probably has for some time) to be a professional triathlete. Makes you wonder what the career path would have been like for athletes in earlier generations. Like, for instance, Bob LeGendre, who was a GU and Olympic track star and wound up as a dentist (and died young, while still at a pro athlete age): georgetownmetropolitan.com/2015/09/04/old-georgetown-in-color-track/

[Nevada Hoya]

Wow, thanks, Russky. What an athlete! I think in the past 80 years GU has had one or two long jumpers, who could jump that far as Bob did, when he set the world record.