Crayton Carrozza Shares His Journey & Ascent To The Top Of The NCAA

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Texas legend Crayton Carrozza hops on the podcast today for a highly impactful and entertaining episode.

Crayton is a senior at the University of Texas, where he has won an NCAA Championship (in the DMR), is the back-to-back BIG 12 indoor champion in the 800m, and holds the school record in the 800m and mile with a times of 1:46.28, and 3:56.79. Prior to his years in the NCAA, Crayton was consistently one of the top runners in his home state of Texas. Crayton is currently in pursuit of making history on the outdoor track this spring.

In this conversation, Crayton recaps his past year of crazy races, including his NCAA championship, Penn Relays win, NCAA indoor 800m race, and more. He also takes us through his upbringing in the sport, ambitions for the future, family competitiveness, and crazy texas workouts.

Needless to say, tap in to the Crayton Carrozza special.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Running Effect podcast with Dominic Schleader.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Dominic, and I'm very excited you've clicked on today's episode because it is an incredible one.
0:13.8	I'm going to sit down and speak with Creighton, Carosa.
0:16.9	Creighton is a runner for the University of Texas at Austin, and recently this past indoor season, he's run 146.2 and 800 meters.
0:26.5	He's run 356 in the mile. Both of those times are school records, if I'm not mistaken.
0:31.2	And then he also placed second at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships right behind his teammate to go one, two, for the
0:39.2	Longhorns, which was so exciting to see. This conversation was so much fun. A lot of great
0:44.5	stories I really enjoyed going through some of Creighton's most exhilarating races in his career
0:49.9	and getting the inside scoof on those races, as well as just going through his career as a whole,
0:55.0	from his start in the sport to his ambitions in the future.
0:58.1	One quick note before we hop right into it, I would greatly appreciate it if you give us a
1:02.5	follow and a five-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
1:06.2	And then also consider sharing the show with a friend if you have not done so already.
1:10.3	Doing so, hopefully we can reach new people and through that inspire them in the process.
1:15.0	So without for their ado, enjoy my conversation with the man the myth the legend, Creighton Carroza.
1:23.6	Creighton Carroza, a pleasure to have you on the Running Effect podcast this afternoon. How are you doing today?
1:29.0	I'm doing good. Thank you for having me. So what's the weather like in Texas this fine day?
1:32.7	Oh, amazing. It's actually so nice. I think right now it's 80 and sunny. The only reason I ask is because it's raining and miserable in Ohio. So I'm cooped up in my basement. I had to bring some light into my day because it's miserable outside.
1:45.5	Run this morning was not fun.
1:47.6	I'm curious, you've lived in Texas your whole life.
1:49.8	What's that been like?
1:50.7	You know, it's been like a good experience.
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