PROVO — Last spring Whittni Orton was in the best shape of her life, ranked the highest in her collegiate track career, and convinced she was mentally ready to accomplish something special.
And then, just weeks before the start of the track season, it was all stolen — the opportunities, the challenges, the experiences — by a virus no one had ever heard of before January.
“That was one of the hardest things I’ve dealt with because of how the season was going and what I had to look forward to,” said Orton, a BYU redshirt senior.