4xNCAA Champion & Former Pro-Runner Sara Slattery Shares Insights, Lessons, And Findings On How NCAA Champions, Olympians, National Champions, & Record Holders Made It To The Top & How YOU Can Too!

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Coach, athlete, mom, author, Sara Slattery comes on the podcast today for the first time!

Sara has a diverse and impressive resume, which began in high school when she ran for Mountain Pointe High in Arizona.

Sara went to run at the University of Colorado, where she placed 8th at the 2000 NCAA Women’s Cross Country championships, becoming the first frosh to win All-American honors at Colorado. She was an 11-time All-American, four-time NCAA champion and was inducted in 2016 as a member of the Colorado Athletics Hall of Fame. She earned her Master’s degree in Education at this time.

Sara began her 2006 season as a professional runner. It was that year she set PRs in the 5k with a time of 15:08 and the 10k with a time of 31:56. Sara was the Pan American Games Champion in 2007 after recovering from a stress fracture. She also came in fourth at the Olympic Trials in the 5k in 2008.

Sara turned her focus to coaching when she became the head coach of the Grand Canyon University cross-country team from 2015-2022. She is one of a few women Division One coaches that has coached both genders.

Sara has been busy since making coaching and parenting her priority: she is the Director of Nike Camp Elevate XC Camp in Prescott Arizona; in addition to co-directing the Women’s Running Retreat at Civana Resort in Carefree, Arizona with marathoner Sara Hall. Today, she is coaching middle school cross country and track.

Outside of her running and coaching, Sara has co-authored the book, How She Did It, with Molly Huddle; she is now in the proposal phase for her second book on pregnancy and running, which she is writing with Molly Huddle and Alysia Montano.

In today’s conversation, Sara takes me through her findings of studying 50-elite athletes and how they did it, the differences of coaching female athletes, her years in the NCAA and winning four titles, her life as a mom, camp director, coach, and more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Every athlete has their own little recipe that leads to success for themselves.
0:05.0	We saw this as like a recipe book.
0:07.0	Like you need certain ingredients to be successful, but every journey is different.
0:12.0	So I think our goal is they can be inspired by someone and see their path, like, and see themselves in that path, like, and some of
0:22.1	the struggles that these women went through, and they can relate to that journey or how
0:28.6	they felt.
0:31.1	That was Sarah Slattery today on the Running Effect podcast.
0:35.7	I'm your host, Dominic Schleader.
0:36.9	I'm thrilled you've clicked
0:37.7	on today's episode. I've got a good one for you. If you're unfamiliar with Sarah, she was a stud
0:43.2	way back in the day. She was an 11-time All-American during her time at the University of Colorado.
0:48.8	She was also a four-time NCAA champion. Absolutely nuts. And through these accomplishments,
0:54.0	she was actually inducted into
0:55.5	the 2016 Hall of Fame for Colorado Athletics, which is wildly impressive and super rare.
1:03.2	She began her professional running career in 2006 and set PRs in the 5K with the time of 1508 and
1:09.6	in the 10K with the time of 3156. She's gone on since then to do
1:14.2	some incredible things. She was a coach at Grand Canyon University from 2015 to 2022. She's one of
1:21.2	the few women Division 1 coaches that coached both genders. And then she's also been very busy
1:26.4	since making coaching and parenting
1:28.1	her priority. She's the director of the Nike Camp Elevate Cross Country Camp in Prescott, Arizona.
1:33.1	In addition to co-directing the woman's running retreat, she's a coaching middle school cross
1:37.1	country as we dive into in today's conversation. And outside of running and coaching and being
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