“I have this problem,” she says, drying a tear from her cheek. “I’m never satisfied. And that keeps me going, wanting better. It’s amazing — the way you feel when you win, the way you feel when you lose.”

Edited by H. Jay Burns and Doug Hubley

Second at the 2003 indoor and outdoor NCAA track championship, Liz Wanless ’04 won both national shot-put titles in 2004, earning a salute in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd.

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