Junior Kristiane Width, who led the Oregon State cross country team with a fourth-place finish at the Sept. 3 John Frank Invitational at Avery Park, took the scenic route to Corvallis and OSU from her childhood home of Oppegard, Norway, an Oslo suburb.
The daughter of a Norwegian diplomat (Henrik) and a journalist (Terhi), the redshirt junior political science major also lived in Sweden and Finland before coming to the United States in 2009 when her father was posted at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in New York City.
A track standout at the United Nations International School in New York City who had never competed in cross country before enrolling at OSU, she has battled through injuries at OSU to letter four times while cracking all-time top-10 lists and earning Pac-12 all-academic honors in each sport.