From The Alumni News to The Green Bay Press-Gazette, from The Tritonian to Sports Illustrated, Allie Woodward has received attention from everywhere possible. For all of her running success I decided that Allie deserves her own column.

Her running accomplishments include taking fourth place in the 2010 Bellin Run out of all the women competitors, creating a new record at the Green Bay City Meet this cross country season, winning the Roy Griak Invitational this month, and winning the Cross Country 2010 State Meet for our school’s division.   Of course, all these running achievements followed her two gold-medals at the state track meet last spring, a feat that led to an NDA state championship for the Lady Tritons track squad.

In addition, she was a varsity tennis player for three years and helped the team make it to the state tournament three years. Her running abilities continue to shatter records and shock spectators. What’s next for Woodward?

Allie has the skills to do anything she sets her mind to, and even though that sounds extremely cliché, I believe it is true.  She has outdone herself time and time again. And I for one do not know how she does it.  

She strayed away—and got lost—in her first cross country meet as a Triton and instead of second to none as she was expected to be, she was last to all. But that didn’t get her spirits down; she came back with an upbeat mentality and since then has taken first in every race that she has run.

Allie Woodward is everywhere, and everyone is talking about her.  But what I have heard the most is “When is she actually going to get any competition?” And I often wonder when she will get competition.

She has beaten all of her competitors by at least twenty seconds. Even at the Cross Country WIAA State Meet, where only the most elite runners survive the journey, she beat her number one opponent by thirty-three seconds.  

To me, it does not seem humanly possible for her, or anyone else for that matter, to run that fast.  But Allie defies all odds and continues to astonish.  She is clearly a good tennis player, a great runner, but an even better person.