LOS ANGELES >> The other day USC hurdler Amalie Iuel, the Pac-12’s premier multi-tasker, was recalling her first meeting with Trojans coach Caryl Smith Gilbert when she burst out laughing, shaking her head at the memory.
“It’s actually a funny story,” she said.
One of those tales that grows more amusing the further away it gets from the actual moment which at the time wasn’t funny at all.
Iuel, born in Denmark, raised in Norway with stops along the way in Namibia, Pakistan, Dubai and Thailand, was recruited to USC by then-coach Ron Allice. But by the time Iuel arrived on the USC campus in the summer of 2013, Allice had retired, replaced by Smith Gilbert, who had been at Central Florida.