In 1992, she enrolled as an English major at the University of Arkansas, which had a renowned track and field program. She competed in the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships all four years of her high school career and ran in both the North American Youth Maccabi Games and the Pan-American Maccabiah while in high school. She attended Agoura High School, and in the high school division, became the five-time California State Champion, also winning three California state cross-country titles and two California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) California State Meet titles. She began long-distance running at age thirteen, breaking the 3,000-meter national record and reigning as the two-time National Cross Country Champion in the Youth Division. Kastor is renowned for her courage after a freak mishap during the World Cross-Country Championships in 2000.ĭeena Michelle Drossin was born on February 14, 1973, in Waltham, Massachusetts, later moving to Agoura Hills, California. She was named the top women’s marathoner in the world by Track and Field News magazine in 2006. She is an Olympic medalist for the marathon, holds American records in both the marathon and half-marathon, and is an eight-time national cross-country champion. Deena Kastor is a long-distance runner who was named All-American at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County).
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