Uhl to compete in first Olympic Games
Lisa Koll, senior, leads the pack during the 3,000-meter run at the Big 12 Indoor Championship. Koll was selected as a finalist for the Honda-Broderick Cup, a top honor awarded annually to a female collegiate athlete.
June 29, 2012
Former Cyclone Lisa Uhl will be marching in with her fellow USA athletes in just under a month at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Uhl qualified June 22 for the 10,000-meter run in a far-from-normal race where her shoe came untied — twice. Uhl punched her ticket with a fourth place finish, but due to technicalities, Uhl was bumped up to third and on her way to London.
But Uhl wasn’t done there.
Uhl came back June 19 to race in the 5,000-meter run preliminary round. Uhl had a chance to double-down the 10K and the 5K in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Uhl finished sixth to move on to the final heat of the 5K on June 28. Again, Uhl wasn’t able to place in the top three positions to seal the deal on double events at the Olympics this summer. Uhl placed sixth in the finals with a time of 15:24.17.
