Rachel Rippetoe| Rob Conner’s cell phone lit up and began to buzz. Its hum mirrored the excitement of the message from a former colleague that had just popped up.
“7:48! You must be jumping through your skin.”
At first, Conner, the University of Portland’s track coach, was unsure of what this meant or why those numbers were so special, then he saw the headlines and realized that track senior, Woody Kincaid, had made UP history.
With a time of 7:48.89 in the 3,000 meter race, the college athlete came in two seconds shy of the all-time top 10 NCAA times.