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letic career.
“We really focused on pack run
ning and we definitely executed the
strategy. Every race we were pack
running and talking. The team dy
namics are by far the best I’ve seen
being here at UNCA,” Kulesz said.
Kulesz refers to herself as a “su
per senior,” and said she was able to
witness the cross country program’s
progress under her coach, Jesse
Norman, thanks to her extra time at
UNCA.
“I came here when it was only
Jesse’s second year here. He kind of
had to rebuild the whole program,
but each year it’s a little better and
better and I’m really excited to see
how' it is in the future,” the Tennes
see native said.
Overall, Kulesz said she consid
ers the home meet the best meet the
team had. More people attended, and
there was more coverage.
“The guys and girls easily >von that
meet and we had our top five girls
under 19 minutes, which is huge for
our team,” Kulesz said. “We just had
really high finishes. The first meet at
Appalachian State we got second,
and then we went back to App and
we got fourth, but the second time it
was like a huge meet with like Duke,
N.C. State and Wake Forest, and we
usually finish 13th or 16th and we
got 4th. So that was really exciting.”
Kulesz said she felt the team re
ceived much more support this year
because they did well this semester.
“They definitely know what we’re
doing and they know what’s going
on, but you get a lot more support
when you’re doing well, so I think
that’s really what it was. We got a
lot more support on the website, and
apparently Jesse, my coach, was get
ting emails all the time about how
well we were doing,” Kulesz said.
According to Kulesz, running
cross country improved her self-
confidence. Looking back to photos
from her freshman year, Kulesz said
she can tell by her hunched-over
stance she struggled with confidence
issues. Now, her coach tells Kulesz
often he can see she has her confi
dence back.
“We continually have freshman
come in and I’ve been blessed and
thankful to be able to have a great
coach that puts trust in me and just
gain experience from that,” Kulesz
said.
Kulesz said she is applying to
graduate school for to get her mas
ter’s in business administration. She
also said she plans to keep running,
and eventually hopes to run an iron
man, which requires swimming, bik
ing 100 miles and running a mara
thon.
“I want to do half-marathons and
marathons, and my ultimate goal
I’ve had forever is to do an iron
man,” Kulesz said. “It’s really hard,
but it’s been my goal since I was
a little girl. I’m really blessed to
have done a sport that I can do on
my own. I can run on my own after
college. It’ll just never be the same
because I won’t have a team like I
do here - and that’s the worst part.”
® Corrections
from last week’s issue (Nov. 13)
♦In Tina Scruggs and Cory A Thompson's
article,"UNCA drama department
prepares for emotional play," actor Keagan
Bates' name was spelled incorrectly
♦In Tina Scrugg’s article, “Speaker addresses
low number of reported sexual assaults,”
Peyton Kennedy is cited as being the co-leader
of Our Voice. She is actually the co-leader of
Speak Up.