Tori Bowie won the 100 meters at the USATF Outdoor Champs this year. In one of the toughest fields in memory, Bowie battled the likes of English Gardner and Jasmin Todd, Jennifer Prandini to take the big title!
Lance Baumann, coach of Tori Bowie, has told us for some time, to watch for this young women. This was not bragging, just noted as a statement of fact. When asked before the 100m race the condition of one of his sprinters, he just smiled. A man of few words, one watches his athletes perform to understand the answer to the smiling coach.
For her fine 100 meters in June and our hopes for Tori Bowie in August, RunBlogRun gives Torie Bowie our June 2015 American Athlete of the Month award!
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
