And Then the Gun Went Off – Thacker Becomes a Runner

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COLFAX, Wash. – Idaho cross country is back at it this weekend. The team will make the quick trip over to the Colfax Golf Club, the site of the 2019 NCAA Cross Country West Regional, on Friday night for the Cougar Classic, beginning at 5:15 p.m.

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Malaina Thacker joined the Vandals ahead of last season. A high school volleyball player, Thacker was new to the world of cross country.

"I was playing volleyball year round, so running was just kind of a side gig. I had never done cross country," Thacker said. "But Travis Floeck saw the potential in me as a runner. By my junior year I had decided that I didn't want to play volleyball in college and that running was what I wanted to do. He…