The Observer, September 21, 2007
Volume XL, Issue 4
Spartan Spotlight: Kristin Bowhers
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The Basics: Kristin Bowhers is a junior civil engineering major from Rochester, N.Y. The cross country runner was named first-team All-UAA last year. She has participated in cross country for eight years.
Joe Amick: What inspired you to run cross country?
Kristin Bowhers: Recess in elementary school-I always raced with my friends.
JA: Yeah, between games of four-square my friends and I would do a quick 5k. Any hobbies or extracurricular activities?
KB: Wearing a fake butt to cross country meets.
JA: I've never been one for volunteering either. Best cross country memory?
KB: Doing the hokey pokey on the starting line at nationals last year.
JA: I'm trying to stop myself from shouting, "That's what it's all about." What's your worst cross country memory?
KB: Missing states by two places in high school.
JA: What's your favorite quote?
KB: "If running were easy we'd call it your mom."
JA: I don't get it. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
KB: Civil engineering my way across the country with a family.
JA: Thanks, tries-to-get-too-much-into-a-sentence. Is there something most people don't know about you?
KB: I wrote a 300-page book in high school (not even kidding).
JA: What makes cross country stand out from other sports?
KB: I don't know about the girls in other sports, but in cross country…fast girls have good times.
JA: Well, now I know that. If you could invite any three people to dinner, living or dead, who would it be and why?
KB: Steve Prefontaine for running tips, Mike Petro to see how sleeping in a drawer is working out for him, and Britta Kumley so I can poop in her dinner plate.
JA: I hope Britta enjoys either pot roast, taco meat, or beef stew. Would you rather have the strength of 1000 (wo)men, be able to fly, or be invisible?
KB: Have the strength of 1000 women. I wouldn't have to lift anymore, and I would intimidate my competition so much they'd have to run to the port-a-pottie at least ten times before the race.
JA: What would they do in there? Oh wait, no follow-ups. If they made a movie about your life, who would you want to play you?
KB: Cameron Diaz.
JA: She was great in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. That movie was x-treme! If you could participate in any other sport, which would you pick and why?
KB: Shuffleboard, because that is naturally the next intense sport from cross-country.
JA: You could be one place but Case (like you would ever want to leave). Where would you go?
KB: North Carolina!
JA: Oh, is that in the south? What's your least favorite thing about cross country?
KB: Getting the runs in the middle of a run.
JA: What's the high point in a cross country runner's season?
KB: The end, when you feel good all the time, and it's not 1000 degrees outside.
JA: Well, good luck with that.
