Gulsvig signs letter of intent to run at LCSC

4-4-07

LEWISTON, Idaho – Jessie Gulsvig of Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, Colo., has signed a national letter of intent to run for the Lewis-Clark State College cross country team, Warrior coach Mike Collins has announced. 

Gulsvig has earned all-state honors in cross country and track, and also has earned several academic honors, Collins says. 

“Colorado Springs is one of the altitude training locales in the United States, so she has seen and been around many of the country’s best distance runners,” Collins says.  “In addition coming from Colorado and so far from home shows me a lot about her intent and motivation to run with us here at L-C State.” 

Collins says he’s impressed with Gulsvig’s performances at the Footlocker Midwest, one of the premier high school cross country races. 

“They run this race on the course in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a course we have run our national championships on in the past and where we are returning to this upcoming season,” Collins says.  “She has run a time on the Kenosha course equal to what both Tausha Kuzmic and Lacey Way ran on the same course in 2002.  The exciting thing about this is that they both finished in the top 20 and earned their first All-American awards that year.  I do not want to place too much pressure on Jessie, but I believe that she will run well for us here and her personality and motivation is one that will make those around her better as well.”