Fawn Dorr, a Brooks sponsored athlete, is a keen social media conversationalist. She reaches out to young athletes that way (like Tyson Gay and LoLo Jones)and has developed quite a following.
Amanda Rose and Brianna Benjamin give us their view of Fawn Dorr, one of the new and rising stars in our sport. I think that you will enjoy their vision of our sport:

But, at the beginning of the Womens' 500 meters, there was a Brooks-sponsored athlete whose appearance, and performance was noticed by many, including by us!
When the gun went off, Fawn Dorr, grunting at the start, immediately took the lead. With her wavy hair with symbols cut into the side (she says on twitter it was done by a Lady Gaga video hair stylist), along with very cool earrings which are designed as lightning bolts, she attempted to steal the race (and the crowd's attention) from the beginning.
Although she finished second in the last turn on the track to Keshia Baker, we, along with the fans in the garden crowd, were abuzz with the look and style of this athlete.
A high school cross-country and track runner from the upstate New York town of Akron, she medaled at the Empire State Games. Also in high school, Dorr won the 2006 NY State title in the 400m hurdles in 60.60 seconds. After a year at SUNY Cortland, where she was the DIII National Champion at 400m hurdles, she transferred to Penn State. At Penn State, she emphasized to us that she was a 12 time NCAA Champion. She is currently training up in Buffalo.
But she did run faster than she ever did at 500 meters in the Garden, so you never know what is going to happen!! Her attitude was summed up in this twitter message she tweeted just before her race--
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