Senior Ally Ginther didn’t casually stumble across her passion for running.
Instead she found herself loving the life of a ballerina, but her father was hoping her passions would take a turn.
“My parents kind of forced me into it,” Ginther said. “My dad was a huge runner and he was just kind of like ‘you should try cross country.’”
But the feelings she had for running were anything but love.
“I absolutely hated running and gym class, and then they made me do a cross country meet,” she said. “I didn’t like being beat by other people so I kept going.