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Interview with former Wisconsin Badger star
Chris Solinsky

Posted September 8th, 2007 at 3:35 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Special Features, Interviews

Former Wisconsin Badger, Chris Solinsky, who now runs for Nike, is a 5-time individual champion in the NCAA and has personal bests of 3:57, 7:36 and 13:12.

Q. Can you explain how you first got starting in the sport of track and field?

A. I got started in running through some persuasion from my parents after some early signs of success in running. I was a soccer player all my life and really enjoyed it, but showed some glimpses of ability in running during the gym class mile. I ran somewhere around 6 minutes when I was in 4th grade and won the district track meet mile in 6th grade. I ran track in middle school but never really trained as I would practice my high jump when the rest of the distance guys would run. I would get beat a lot. My first 5k was something like 19:40 or so in the 8th grade my parents had me try cross country and actually train for running and I had pretty good success and fell in love with the sport. Our team was great as we were all real close, so that helped a lot too.

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