BYU Star Whittni Orton Morgan Signs Announces Her Pro Sponsor, Overcoming Injury + Pandemic To Become An NCAA Champion
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🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
"I need to have a good 'why' for why I'm doing it and what drives me. For me, it's never been money before with college running... I want to do it for the love of the sport and the fulfillment it brings me. Just Keep my 'Why' in a good place."
Whittni Orton Morgan is the reigning NCAA cross country out of BYU who joins us to share some news that she has signed her first professional contract and will be running for Adidas. She talks to me and my co-host Kyle Merber about the process and what it means for her training set up in Utah. Sneakily, there might be a real strong group forming there. We talk through her career up until this point which included playing multiple sports in high school with her favorite being basketball. So how’d she end up running and got so good at it? We touch on her mindset and motivation to win an NCAA title – which was interrupted by injuries throughout her career for the Cougars and just when things were going right, COVID strikes. A real fun conversation before she makes her debut in the women’s 3,000 meters at the Millrose Games this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the CitySmag Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Chavez, and I just wanted to give you a heads up that this weekend |
| 0:05.8 | Saturday January 29th, Kyle Merbrennye are returning to your screens as we host our first |
| 0:12.0 | CitySmag live post-game show. It's called After the Final lap and we'll be going live on the CitySmag YouTube channel |
| 0:19.4 | minutes after the conclusion of the Milrose Games because |
| 0:22.9 | with the NFL NBA or MLB you tune into the games and afterwards you're right in the high of the competition |
| 0:28.8 | and you want to hear more from the athletes and coaches and get some fresh takes and thoughts and analysis of what you just saw |
| 0:34.4 | So we're hoping to bring you that with a fun show. The meat is on NBC from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m |
| 0:40.2 | And as soon as that's done, stay on the couch, pull out your phone or laptop and react to the incredible performances |
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