By Deecon Hill
On Wednesday July 18, 2018, Write on Sports interviewed Chelsea Foster. She is a member of the Goshen College cross country and track team. She is an accomplished runner that even made NAIA nationals for cross country, but it didn’t just happen overnight for her. She started later than most people did, starting as a junior in high school.
She didn’t like running until she started track her junior year. People like her coaches and Victor Oladipo inspired her to always work harder. Her friends also pushed her into doing it, and when she finally did it she realized that she liked running. Unfortunately, she got injured her senior year of high school and that derailed her career a little bit. She wanted to go to a school with good academics and one that would allow her to run. One day she looked at her spam emails and saw an email from Goshen College. They wanted her to run for them and they also had all the majors that she was interested in.
She decided to go to Goshen College and now she’s having a great running career here as well. She had another injury in her college career and it was shin splints. It hurt so bad that one time she got her coach, Rustin Nyce, to let her run a race and she had to drop out of the race because her shin splint injury hurt so bad. She says it was her most embarrassing run of her life. But she overcame that moment and eventually made it to nationals for NAIA and she still has three years left at Goshen College. Let’s see what she can do.