2003 NIKE Indoor Mile Champion, Sarah Bowman, has her sights set on being more than just another runner. She wants to be a role model that everyone aspires to be.
Sarah Bowman's win at the NIKE Indoor Championships and 2nd in the mile at the Penn Relays may have come as a surprise to some, but not to her. The Fauquier (Warrenton, VA) sophomore has had her sights on becoming one of the best ever since she became serious about her running in the winter of 2002-2003. It was then that she decided to wean herself from her top flight soccer career and devote more time to track. Her intentions are to see just how far she can get with the Olympics as her ultimate goal.
Bowman has always been told that she was a fast runner. First, by her grandmother, and later, by all her teachers and coaches at school were she habitually won over the boys in her class.
" I would always run the mile in gym class and beat all the boys," she says laughing. " So then we would have PE Olympics. I ran t...