Constantina Dita at the Flagship store ASICS, Amsterdam from Losse Veter on Vimeo.
Constatina Dita visited Amsterdam for opening the new Flagship store of ASICS. The reigning Olympic Champion gave an interview in which she talks about London 2011 and London 20112.
January 27, 2011 Half a dozen Boulder Wave athletes, including five based in Colorado, will be in action this weekend at competitions around the world. Friday night in Madison Square Garden, University of Colorado grad Sara Vaughn steps back to the big time by racing in the women’s 1500m at the 104th Millrose Games. In …
October 3, 2010 Antonio Vega (Mizuno/Team USA Minnesota) was crowned champion of the 2010 USA Running Circuit in an awards ceremony held after today’s Twin Cities Marathon and 10 Mile, the final events on the 2010 circuit. He led all US men with 44 points on the circuit, followed by Mo Trafeh with 39 points …
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“Without running, I would be nowhere.”
One of our newest athletes, Diane Nukuri Johnson of Burundi and now Iowa, has quite a life story to tell. Several publications in her adopted home state of Iowa have covered Diane in the past few years, detailing her life’s story from running back and forth to school while growing up in Burundi, to her experiences in civil war at home while still a child, to her appearance at age 15 as Burundi’s sole female track and field athlete at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
The articles track Diane’s education from catholic school in Canada, to Butler Community College in Wichita, Kansas where Diane was nine-time Juco national champion, winning two titles each in the mile, 3000 meters, 5000 meters, and half marathon, and one title in cross-country. Diane then made the transition in 2006 to the University of Iowa, where she blossomed under the tutledge of head coach Layne Anderson. Diane became the school’s first-ever regional champion and went on to place eighth at the 2007 NCAA Division I Cross-Country Championship Meet where she was an All American.
Diane is now a multi-lingual 25 year-old married college graduate. She is focusing her sights on a marathon debut this autumn, and longer term on the 2012 London Olympic Games. She still lives in Iowa City, training under Anderson’s direction. As she looks to the future and behind, Diane says on the importance of running, “without it, I would be nowhere. Running was my way out.” Fiona Fallon, a former Iowa teammate summed up Nukuri’s impact best. “She’s an amazing person on and off the field. She leads by example. We were brought up in our own world, and sometimes we may forget how much harder someone had to work to get where they are.”
See below for two stories with more details on Diane, as well as a pair of Flotrack interviews.
January 5, 2010 Training yet again in Boulder’s winter climate for the Osaka International Ladies Marathon, Lidia Simon is aiming to mark her tenth running of the event in strong fashion. A three-time winner in Osaka, Lidia has only once failed to make the Top 8 awards ceremony at Osaka, a 2006 injury-hampered 9th-place finish …
August 26, 2009 At a press conference this morning at Romanian Athletics Federation (F.R.A.) headquarters in Bucharest, Boulder Wave and the Romanian federation announced the launch of a new “adidas Next-Generation Development Project” for Romanian athletes. The new project will support and outfit a select group of up-and-coming Romanian junior athletes, and scout and develop …
August 12, 2009 Colorado sports agency Boulder Wave, Inc., announces today that 14 athletes represented by the firm will participate in the 2009 IAAF World Track and Field Championships, set to open in Berlin this weekend. “This is the most athletes we’ve ever had qualify for a world championships,” says company president Brendan Reilly. “And …
June 16, 2009 Athlete management firm Boulder Wave, Inc., and adidas have announced agreement on sponsorship for 2008 University of Colorado graduate Sara Vaughn for the coming year. Vaughn, who turned 23 last month, has been on a tear this spring, with PB’s in each of her last five outdoor competitions. In this stretch, she …
May 6, 2009 Boulder Wave’s founder and president Brendan Reilly will give a special BolderBOULDER 10K coaching session this coming weekend for members of Team KBCO, the running group brought together by Colorado’s world-class rock station, KBCO. KBCO is a long-time sponsor of BolderBOULDER, and each year invites its listeners to run with Team KBCO …
